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You can see the guide to replacing the SSD is right there. The one caveat to that is if your Mac is old enough to use standard 2.5″ or 3.5″ HDDs, you can buy them anywhere. While you can find hard drive replacement kits through online retailers just by searching, we recommend iFixit because they only stock parts from reputable suppliers so you know you’re not going to get ripped off. They have guides for every Mac model and sell all the parts you need. Rather than walk you through every possible hard drive replacement, if you’ve decided to go it alone, I’m going to hand you off to our friends at iFixit.

RELATED: Should You Repair Your Own Phone or Laptop? If you’re not sure you have the technical chops to do it right, you should consider asking a more qualified friend to help, or even going to the professionals. The Mac Pro is designed to have its hard drive replaced easily, while an iMac requires you to remove the entire screen. And you can option boot off the clone and come here for help anytime.While it is possible to replace the hard drive on any Mac not listed above, how difficult it is varies wildly with the model. 2 (Boot), 2 x 1tb HDD in software RAID 0 (hosts home folder) PSU: 850w. Then make the physical switch, option boot off the clone, format the internal drive like above, and use CCC to clone your external onto the new internal. I created a Hackintosh computer that matches the Mac Pro specs for about 1/3rd. Then use the free/donationware Carbon Copy Cloner to clone your old internal drive to the external drive, then hold the option key while booting to select it as boot to check it out. This upgrade works for MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, iMac, Mac Pro, and Mac Mini made in.

Your on 10.6, all you need to do is get a external drive, format it (Disk Utility) 1 partition, Option GUID, OS X extended In this post I am going to walk through my story of upgrading a 2013 MacBook Pro’s hard drive storage to 1TB. Use the free MacTracker to find out how much real memory your machine can hold, as Apple sometimes understates the full amount because new RAM modules are made all the time. You might as well max the RAM while your at it. If your under AppleCare, wait until the 3 years has expired, then pick out a nice 750GB 7,200 RPM drive from OtherWorld Computing which also provides a kit to open the Mac with. You would have to do it yourself or hire a geek to do it for you, it's not hard.
