Transferring from one 2011 MBP to a different 2011 MBP; plus advise on 128SSD/256SSD

[ZMacintosh]

I recently swapped my 2011 MacBook Pro 2.2Ghz 128GB SSD for a 2011 15" 2.2Ghz 128GB SSD Anti-glare and was curious if I could just swap the drive out and pick up where I left off or would it be best to do a migration via Migration Assistant? Or best alternatives?

Thanks!


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Do you think the 256GB for $360 would be a better investment than the 128GB SSD? I'm looking at the MBP as my secondary production machine in conjuction with my imac. the $360 EDU pricing seems more level than the 400-499+ for other manufacture SSD.

hm. thanks again

 

[seong]

If you swap the HDDs between computers that's compatible (meaning nothing like 5 years old HDD,) it should work, and you should be where you left off.

 

[kfergiez]

The absolute best way to do this is with Time Machine

 

[Centsy]

Well if they are the exact same specs other than the anti-glare screen, there should be no problem with just swapping the HDDs. In fact, I think it would be better to do that than go through a migration.

 

[jbrenn]

I recently swapped my 2011 MacBook Pro 2.2Ghz 128GB SSD for a 2011 15" 2.2Ghz 128GB SSD Anti-glare and was curious if I could just swap the drive out and pick up where I left off or would it be best to do a migration via Migration Assistant? Or best alternatives?

Thanks!

you can just swap the drives.

 

[Young Spade]

Hey, not to hijack or anything, but what are the requirements for being able to just hot-swap the drive like that?

 

[getz76]

The absolute best way to do this is with Time Machine

Actually, Carbon Copy Cloner would be much quicker than Time Machine.

Put the new machine in Target Disk Mode and run Carbon Copy Cloner on the old machine and clone the drive over.

 

[jbrenn]

Hey, not to hijack or anything, but what are the requirements for being able to just hot-swap the drive like that?

The Drive needs to have drivers for the newest computer. For example i can take the drive from an 07 mbp and update it to 10.6.8 and put it in a new one.

 

[ZMacintosh]

Cool, I will definitely try out the restore from Time Machine back-up.
I have it on my time capsule so that should be easy.
I just wasnt sure if apple's ssd had firmware to prevent them from being swapped between systems, etc.

one will be used for Lion and the other for legacy Apps, wish there was a Thunderbolt external enclosure i could use for the previous SSD.