![]() Your Mac can upgrade to 10.13 High Sierra. ![]() Back up your data, click here, and download High Sierra. If you want to install a Radeon RX 570/580 Graphics card that is supported by Mojave and High Sierra, you may do it now. (Radeon RX 590 requires Mojave.) *** Catalina on Mac Pro 5,1 is not supported by Apple or Sonnet. … Catalina will not boot from a volume formatted as Mac OS Extended (Journaled).If you have an old MacBook Pro with one foot in the grave, the single best thing you can do to breathe new life into it is replace its traditional spinning hard drive with a solid-state drive. There's a reason that all modern MacBooks and the vast majority of all laptops sold today use SSDs. They are more energy efficient, more reliable and quieter than hard drives with magnetic, spinning disks. ![]() And they aren't nearly as costly per gigabyte as they once were. I replaced my 2011-era MacBook Pro's 500GB hard drive with the 500GB Samsung 850 Evo. The whole procedure took less than an hour (not counting the half a day it took to clone my MacBook's hard drive to the SSD). Really, the hardest part of the whole thing was tracking down a size 6T torx-head screwdriver for the four torx screws that help hold the hard drive in place. Torx head screwdriver for disassembling the hard drive.A 2.5-inch SATA SSD (I used the Samsung 850 Evo).(I found them at my local Ace Hardware.)Īs you'll see in the video below, my colleague Sharon Profis resurrected her 2009 MacBook Pro with an SSD and agrees with me that the process is simple and straightforward. Start by connecting the SSD to your computer with a dock or cable. Once it's connected, launch Disk Utility (searchable through Spotlight), and select the SSD from the left sidebar. ![]() Then, click the Erase button at the top of the window and then click Erase. No need to change any settings, unless you'd like to give it a new name. This will format the drive and prep it for the next step.
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