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Several people have mentioned USB enclosures. Either way, it won't match the options you have on SATA III drives.Ģ. OWC used to make a line of SATA II SSDs that go bigger, I suspect for exactly this reason. It doesn't affect the actual optical drive, because they tend to be SATA I or at best SATA IIįor a while I had a 480GB SATA II SSD in the enclosure, until that became too small. I tested this with several SSDs and HDDs, and three different adapters. The laptop will freeze as soon as you access the drive. The 2011 MBP has a bug on the secondary SATA port in SATA III mode.

the adapter to replace the optical drive with a 2nd hard drive. You do not want to go the optibay (or whatever it's called) route.

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I have a Samsung 850 Pro 2TB in my 2011 MBP. Here is the video I referred to -watched- when I replaced my 512 GB SSD with the new 1 TB SSD I noticed immediately it is much faster in computer use. The APFS formatting is a new type of formatting and replaces the old 'mac extended'. The video on formatting a new SSD drive was made before Apple introduced the APFS file system so it is not mentioned in the video however when you click 'erase' as in the video, APFS will show up as a formatting option and you just have to choose the APFS as the option to format in. Also, you should format your new SSD in the new file format which is called APFS before you clone your new SSD. BUT, to feel comfortable watch a video online before you start and -if possible- have available a computer to watch video as you work on your own machine in case it seems more complicated than you expected. The process of opening up and replacing the drive is easy and not complicated.

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Recently, last year, my SSD was reaching the full point so I upgraded to a 1 TB SSD (Samsung 850 pro) and have a external 1 TB SSD as a backup. When I bought the 2011- new, it was with a 512 GB SSD and 8 GB RAM. The video chooses OS Extended (Journaled). The video link you provided does not show the formatting option you mentioned (APFS). William, You've confused me (easily done, my friend).

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Then you clone your old drive to new and then install it.

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Here is a video on how to format the new SSDīut importantly, choose APFS in the dropdown menu choice rather than Mac extended. Also, you should format you new SSD in the new file format which is called APFS before you clone your new SSD. BUT, to feel comfortable watch a video online before you start and -if possible- have available a computer to watch video as you work on your own machine in case it seem more complicated than you expected. I use a 1TB external drive to store media and to do regular Time Machine backups.Ĭan someone suggest the best option(s) for the SSD hardware? Also, it seems to be a relatively straightforward swapout.am I right? I'm no techie, but I can follow directions and turn a screw driver. Current drive is 320GB with around 180GB used, so I was thinking a 500GB SSD would be fine. I've already maxed out the RAM (16GB) and am considering swapping out the HD for a SSD. I am growing frustrated with the speed of my Early 2011 MBP.

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