I have two SSDs in the MacBook, and I cloned one to the other. Then I just booted to the opposite SSD and tested it.
I did this to find out if I have SATA III speeds in both the main HDD bay and the optical bay SSD. Turns out, I do!
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I did this to find out if I have SATA III speeds in both the main HDD bay and the optical bay SSD. Turns out, I do!
I have two SSDs in the MacBook, and I cloned one to the other. Then I just booted to the opposite SSD and tested it.
I did this to find out if I have SATA III speeds in both the main HDD bay and the optical bay SSD. Turns out, I do!
Very nice.
I found out why it was taking 40 seconds to boot with the ssd. It was taking a long time for the Apple logo to come up, from there it took 4 seconds.
Found it was because I needed to go System Preferences > Startup Disk and select my SSD.
I guess it was searching the startup disk and that was taking it forever.
Now it's 8-10
Very nice.
I found out why it was taking 40 seconds to boot with the ssd. It was taking a long time for the Apple logo to come up, from there it took 4 seconds.
Found it was because I needed to go System Preferences > Startup Disk and select my SSD.
I guess it was searching the startup disk and that was taking it forever.
Now it's 8-10
Wow... yours is so much faster than my Samsung 840 Pro.
Mine takes a full 11 seconds, it's so stressful I can hardly stand it.....LOL
Kidding aside, now that we have SSD's to work with it's really fast and easy to change them unless of course it's a MBPr.
After years of working with HDD's even at 7200 RPM, it's really refreshing to be able to clone and replace a drive in a very short period of time.
Glad to hear yours worked out.
Enjoy
Yes, it makes sleeping the laptop seem pretty silly... though if I'll be using it again that day, I will just shut the lid on occasion.
Wow... yours is so much faster than my Samsung 840 Pro.
Mine takes a full 11 seconds, it's so stressful I can hardly stand it.....LOL
Kidding aside, now that we have SSD's to work with it's really fast and easy to change them unless of course it's a MBPr.
After years of working with HDD's even at 7200 RPM, it's really refreshing to be able to clone and replace a drive in a very short period of time.
Glad to hear yours worked out.
Enjoy
I timed it four times and the quickest was 8 seconds slowest 10 so I don't know it's around the same! Probably just me starting it at different times hahahaha.
I agree it really is refreshing. Very glad I finally did it.
And now you're not afraid of cloning, and also learned the 'select boot disk' trick.
I'm very thankful you convinced me to clone, it may not have been hard but I was pretty against it before.
It's working great though. Saved me a lot of hassle.
Do you do your backups using ccc or super duper? Or do you use TM?
I learned something, too. I didn't realise that SuperDuper! doesn't clone the Recovery Partition like CCC does. Also, I was able to use CCC to install a new recovery partition underneath my boot disk after having erased it. That is pretty cool. I had preferred SD over CCC, but now I think I like CCC much better.
I only clone, no TM.
I only clone, no TM.
Sorry I should of mentioned that yesterday. After doing a few minutes of reading I discovered CCC does the recovery and super duper doesn't, that's why I decided to go with CCC.
I meant to mention that, slipped my mind.
Is it possible to partition 1.5tb external drive so 1 partition is used for the TM backup and one for the clone backup?
Sorry I have so many q's, trying to fully understand this whole new world