hi folks,
I'm about to crack open my iMac 5K and put in a new SSD, as my current Fusion Drive is dying. Using a couple different utilities, I'm seeing massive wear levels on the blade SSD part of the Fusion Drive, so I'm about to put in a 2TB SATA SSD. I got a repair kit from iFixit and will give it a go in the next few days.
What's the best and easiest way to seamlessly keep things working just as they are, with the existing user accounts and everything, once I'm done?
Should I clone my current Fusion Drive onto the new SSD using Carbon Copy Cloner, then install it into the new machine? Any pitfalls there?
Or would it make more sense to install MacOS onto that new drive and then use Migration Assistant to bring over the user accounts from a separate CCC clone of the drive?
I'm about to crack open my iMac 5K and put in a new SSD, as my current Fusion Drive is dying. Using a couple different utilities, I'm seeing massive wear levels on the blade SSD part of the Fusion Drive, so I'm about to put in a 2TB SATA SSD. I got a repair kit from iFixit and will give it a go in the next few days.
What's the best and easiest way to seamlessly keep things working just as they are, with the existing user accounts and everything, once I'm done?
Should I clone my current Fusion Drive onto the new SSD using Carbon Copy Cloner, then install it into the new machine? Any pitfalls there?
Or would it make more sense to install MacOS onto that new drive and then use Migration Assistant to bring over the user accounts from a separate CCC clone of the drive?
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