#Ssd macbook pro 13 mid 2012 serial#
#Ssd macbook pro 13 mid 2012 upgrade#
#Ssd macbook pro 13 mid 2012 full#
#Ssd macbook pro 13 mid 2012 series#

#Ssd macbook pro 13 mid 2012 series#

The new M series processors are a harbinger that the time for such a change is approaching sooner than later. I am aware that eventually, I will have to break down and buy a new MBP. While the new MBPs are lighter and have longer battery life, they hold little performance edge over this machine in my day to day use of the machine as INTEL has done little to really advance processors in a meaningful way over the years since this machine was designed. This machine is fast, reliable and delight to use. The logic board nor the display on this machine have ever faltered.

#Ssd macbook pro 13 mid 2012 upgrade#

I upgraded the machine to Big Sur using a popular patching program along with an upgrade to the latest Broadcom WiFi/BT card (thanks to an enterprising young man) and am running 11.2 currently with no issues outside the ones that are plaguing even the newest MBPs. Both fans have been replaced and most recently I replaced the right side speakers as the woofer section had started to rattle. I have replaced the keyboard only ONCE in that entire time. The 1TB HDD is still used as an in-machine Time Machine drive for Big Sur. I upgraded to 1TB SSD and a 1TB HDD and moved to APFS once Catalina came along using the HDD as an in-machine daily clone backup drive (used SuperDuper until Big Sur negated the ability to easily create a bootable clone). I upgraded the SSD to a larger one and rolled the SSD and HDD into a FUSION drive using the tools apple made available to anyone comfortable with the command line, which I ran with zero issues for several years. I swapped out the super drive (CD/DVD burner) for an SSD (initially a relatively small one to just hold the OS). I upgraded the HDD several times (started life as a 256MB HDD).

#Ssd macbook pro 13 mid 2012 full#

This machine has a full compliment of ports with NO dongles needed! I upgraded the ram over time to its max 16GB. This machine was the last of the totally user repairable notebooks Apple made. Without question, a fine example of solid engineering. My daughter gave me this machine as a christmas present in late 2012. If you still can't get it to work are you able to get it to work in the HDD drive bay? You may need to replace the HD SATA cable as they often need replacing Your Hard Drive Cable Is A Ticking Time Bomb and you don't want to damage it by folding it, instead use a BIC pen ink straw which has the correct radius to help you form the arcs the cable needs at the bend point.I am among those still using a mid 2012 non-retina 15' MBP. OWC 500GB Aura Pro 6G SSD Upgrade for 2012-2013 MacBook Pro with Retina Display (OWCS3DAP12R500) 159.

#Ssd macbook pro 13 mid 2012 serial#

Then go to the Blue URL link above to check your system out.ДЄs far as the drive you do want to reformat it with GUID partition mapping and HFS+ file system (running under macOS Sierra) or GUID with APF file system under macOS Mojave. The MacBook Pro 'Core i5' 2.5 13-Inch (Mid-2012/USB 3.0) features a 22 nm 'Ivy Bridge' 2.5 GHz Intel 'Core i5' processor (3210M), with two independent processor 'cores' on a single silicon chip, a 3 MB shared level 3 cache, 4 GB of 1600 MHz DDR3L SDRAM (PC3-12800) installed in pairs (two 2 GB modules), a 500 GB Serial ATA (5400 RPM) hard drive. INDMEM 512GB NVMe PCIe SSD 3D TLC NAND Flash Hard Drive Disk 512G Only for Late 2013 - Mid 2015 MacBook Pro, Mid 2013-2017 MacBook Air, Late 2013-2017 iMac, Late 2013 Mac Pro, Late 2014 Mac Mini. as an example MacBookPro9,1 which is a M15' MacBook Pro which I'm using right now. Locate the Model ID within the System Report from within the About This Mac menu entry. OWC was good enough to document this issue which is why i point to their unit. It makes no difference who's optical drive carrier you use! You could be facing an issue from the logic board in this series. OWC does make a fixed speed SSD OWC - Mercury Electra 3G SSD which is one of the few fixed speed SSDвЂ™s still on the market. Sadly, while I personally love the Samsung EVO SSDвЂ™s it is a auto sense drive and wonвЂ™t latch into the needed I/O SATA speed as such wonвЂ™t work. If it still fails either try a second carrier in case yours is defective or not rated for SATA III (6.0 Gb/s) support or try a fixed speed SATA II (3.0 Gb/s) drive. So if you have the i5 model you should be able to get the drive to work. Again, this is a MacBook Pro logic board issue not the carrier its self. Review this OWC - Data Doubler OWC Red note is a bit confusing as the Model listing does not point to the Red note at the bottom, yet the note its self lists the MacBookPro9,2 model. In your case the faster i7 model wonвЂ™t work whereas the i5 model will! Same exact PCH just the difference in the clocking makes the difference! You see the PCH chip in some is not properly clocked so many SATA III (6.0 Gb/s) drives wonвЂ™t work properly. Apple has a known issue in many of their MacBook ProвЂ™s.