I found the SSD was being detected by the system but it was unavailable as a usable drive because it was not formatted.
#Whats the best unibody super drive cady for mac 2012 install
I wound up using the caddy that came with my iFixit repair kit to mount the original HDD as a start-up disk where I was able to get into my old install of MacOS. The SSD was not being recognized as an available install target drive no matter what I tried. When I booted up the computer and got to the recovery where I was to install the OS to the bare SSD I ran into my first and only roadblock. The drive install was super quick, no sweat. The guide I had found to creating the install media for the computer was good enough to get a USB thumb drive prepared to do the OS install when it came time to do that. The instructions seemed thorough for replacing the HDD and they did prove to be good. Probably a combination of the 5400rpm HDD and a 5 year old install with all the crap that has been done to it over the years.įast forward to this week, I bought a 480GB SSD and repair kit (fortunate for me that I did) from iFixit. The computer became snappier but boot up and app load time was still pretty bad. I bought an 8GB memory upgrade from OWC and while I had the bottom cover off I straightened it the best I could and cleaned the insides as thoroughly as possibly. First I updated to Sierra and the computer was even laggier. It was still on OS X Lion! Yeah just bad all around.Ī week later I got a 6s from work and decided I'd give the Apple ecosystem a shot again having ditched my old BlackBook and 4s years ago. It had been dropped and the bottom cover was misaligned and bent.
The previous owner was a slob and allowed it to get dirty and banged up. Honestly I debated whether or not I was going to keep it, it was laggy and in poor physical condition.
It was the low end model: i5 2.5GHz, 4GB, 500GB 5400RPM hard drive. I was gifted a unibody mid 2012 13" MacBook Pro earlier this year.
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