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Moving to SSD from HDD- Can I...

If you have a mid 2012 rMBP, then you have a retina MBP, that uses a proprietary SSD. If you have the older model, and you have a spinning disk, then yes that should work
 
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That should work fine - you would need software to perform the cloning process, as I am guessing you are aware, and preferably one that can also clone the Recovery HD. The brand I personally use is Carbon Copy Cloner, although I tend to favor fresh OS installs over clones if the OS on the older disk is relatively old and has gone through multiple App Store-based OS X updates (as opposed to the clean install.)
 
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My mid-2012 is not retina- that was the first year for retinas and they still had non-retina models.

ZapNZ, the unit actually has a special mode where it makes a clone of a disk without using a computer of any kind. Put in the drive, and it does a direct copy of the disk in the device itself, disconnected from any computer.
 
Another vote a fresh install. A disk change out is a good time to get rid of things you through you deleted, old files and programs you never uses, etc. Just throw the old hard drive in a $15 USB container so you have it to transfer over your data.
 
I just rebuilt the image on the drive, so it actually is a fresh install.I'm out of re-activations on a couple of programs so I am trying to avoid reinstalling them. The current disk was always intended as a temporary fix- the original disk in it died and I used this one until I got the SSD.

I still may do it the way you mentioned, though. And I already have several empty housings for drives if I need a place to load the old one.
 
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I just rebuilt the image on the drive, so it actually is a fresh install.I'm out of re-activations on a couple of programs so I am trying to avoid reinstalling them. The current disk was always intended as a temporary fix- the original disk in it died and I used this one until I got the SSD.

I still may do it the way you mentioned, though. And I already have several empty housings for drives if I need a place to load the old one.
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Sounds reasonable. Enjoy you speedy SSD Mac. The change to SSD was a night and day difference for me on my 2011 MBP.
 
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Beachguy said:
ZapNZ, the unit actually has a special mode where it makes a clone of a disk without using a computer of any kind. Put in the drive, and it does a direct copy of the disk in the device itself, disconnected from any computer.
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My bad! - I did not realize that!
How well does this feature work on Macs? Do you recommend it?
 
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Beachguy said:
I'm out of re-activations on a couple of programs so I am trying to avoid reinstalling them.
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You still may have trouble with this. A lot of apps like that, notable MS and Adobe apps, will detect they are on different hardware and make you reregister.
 
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jerryk said:
Sounds reasonable. Enjoy you speedy SSD Mac. The change to SSD was a night and day difference for me on my 2011 MBP.
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I'm using my Win10 laptop at the moment and the same was true on it- a 2009 HP laptop with a Core2 Quad Q900 (no speed demon even when new) but with the older, slower SSD in it (OCZ Vertex 3) it is very much still a usable machine. It's amazing how much processing power is wasted with slow storage.
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ZapNZs said:
My bad! - I did not realize that!
How well does this feature work on Macs? Do you recommend it?
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I'll let you know once I try it! I have the good- probably give it a shot Monday or Tuesday.
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Weaselboy said:
You still may have trouble with this. A lot of apps like that, notable MS and Adobe apps, will detect they are on different hardware and make you reregister.
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Ugh. My only true concern is my two copies of Office I have (2016 and 2011.)
 
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Beachguy said:
Ugh. My only true concern is my two copies of Office I have (2016 and 2011.)
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With Office 2011, when I had it on an old hard drive, I performed a fresh install to a new hard drive in the same computer, and activated it using the same product key without issue. I intended to activate by phone (to deactivate the former install) - but when I tried just activating with the product key, in my case I did not have an issue. I'm not sure if that is how it normally works or not, but for me it did.

I copied these files, as after reading I was under the impression I would need to restore them to the new hard drive from the old, and keep the computer naming scheme the same as in the old hard drive, but turns out I did not need them:
/Library/Application\ Support/Microsoft/
/Applications/Microsoft\ Office\ 2011/
/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist
/Library/PrivilegedHelperTools/com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper
/Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.office.licensing.plist

Not sure if that helps or not.
 
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All done. It turned out I was able to use DIsk Utility to clone the drive, and I am now on my SSD. I had forgotten how quick this machine can be- and it's a 2012! Plus, I'm back to 16GB RAM as well, so all is very good.

Now if my DisplayPort to HDMI to DVI cabling would just start working again...
 
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Beachguy said:
All done. It turned out I was able to use DIsk Utility to clone the drive, and I am now on my SSD. I had forgotten how quick this machine can be- and it's a 2012! Plus, I'm back to 16GB RAM as well, so all is very good.

Now if my DisplayPort to HDMI to DVI cabling would just start working again...
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Congrats on getting the machine speed back.

On the DP-> DVI, I use this adapter with my 2015 15" rMBP. Works great on both HDMI and DVI monitors and projectors, when I am on the road speaking and in the office. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00UHLC24O/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o09_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
 
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I have one I have used for several years. It's just a bit finicky of late- not sure which part of the chain is struggling.

I also need to figure out if I need to turn TRIM on and if so, how to do so.
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Congrats on getting the machine speed back.

On the DP-> DVI, I use this adapter with my 2015 15" rMBP. Works great on both HDMI and DVI monitors and projectors, when I am on the road speaking and in the office. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00UHLC24O/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o09_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
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I should have looked first- that adaptor rocks! Can I drive multiple external monitors with it?
 
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Beachguy said:
I have one I have used for several years. It's just a bit finicky of late- not sure which part of the chain is struggling.

I also need to figure out if I need to turn TRIM on and if so, how to do so.
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I should have looked first- that adaptor rocks! Can I drive multiple external monitors with it?
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I never tried running multiple monitors with a single adapter. I have two of them and run separate monitors with each adapter all the time.
 
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