After 5 minutes, the throbber under Apple icon just halts and screen freezes. Features : Add a 2nd drive to your laptop by replacing your optical drive Support 2.5 7mm / 9.5mm SATA HDD / SSD hard drive disk This Optical bay caddy only fits unibody models (Late 2008/Early 2009/Mid 2009/Late 2009/Early 2010/Mid 2010/ 2011/2012) which has Optical drive SuperDrive( DVD/CD-ROM ), Not Compatible for Retina Macbook Pro. Not sure if it is downloading a big OS ISO image or something.Īlso I am trying to boot up by C key with a Snow Leopard DVD that comes with the Macbok Pro. Waited 15 minutes without any progress change and hard quitted. Tries to progress but halts at 70 percent and progress freezes.
After that without restart, gray Apple icon appears with a loading bar under it. I already had Crucial M4 SSD and 500GB HDD so I. First things first, I needed to put two drives in my Mac. Inspired by an Jinx’s article about building your own Apple fusion drive I’ve decided to take it one step further and brew my own with full Os X installation on it.
Can someone help me by listing some good compatiable SSDs and ram sticks.
#Ssd drive for macbook pro 2010 upgrade
its a 13 inch 2010 edition and the 1st thing i want to do is upgrade the the hdd to a ssd and the ram from 4 to 8/16gb.
#Ssd drive for macbook pro 2010 install
But because I am trying to install onto an empty formatted Sandisk SSD drive, obviously no help.Īfter another CMD + R attempt, the internet recovery globe downloads for 2 minutes and then internet recovery globe dismiss. Apple fusion drive on late 2010 MacBook Pro. Hi, Im new to the world of Apple, so i started out by buying my friends old Macbook pro. For power users with high-performance demands, you won’t go wrong with OWC 1.0 TB Aura SSD. It downloads something for 2 minutes and then restart the macbook pro.Īfter restart nothing happens. For general users who want an affordable yet high-capacity SSD, Transcend JetDrive 820 is surely a winner in the market.