#Clone mac hdd to ssd time machine upgrade
It made a massive improvement without the RAM upgrade being done too. Based on the same projects I used to get slow loading and issues of this type with, I'd say a lot of this must be down to speed of file movements and read speeds from the HDD. I've seen many other people complaining about CPU overload. Have to say the upgrade to SSD from spinning disc 540rpm drive has made a massive difference to the speed and stability of Maschine running on my mid 2012 MacBook Pro. I could however manually copy the files from my old HD to the new one, and then map the locations in Native Access such that native access 'registered' them as being installed. Most users won’t ever have to worry about wearing out an SSD, using it either. In terms of Time Machine’s suitability for SSDs, SSD reliability has gotten a lot better as manufacturing has improved.
#Clone mac hdd to ssd time machine pro
It basically meant that certain installers for example Session Strings Pro didn't work. A good rule of thumb is that your Time Machine drive should be 2-3 times the size of the hard drive or SSD drive your have in your Mac. I opted for the older Mac Extended Journaled as I have a few backup discs that all are in that format, and my MacBook Pro pre-dates the inception of APFS. I believe from a fair bit of reading around during the process that this is due to a formatting difference between older Mac disc format of Extended Journaled, vs the newer APFS structure. One other thing is that I did have some communication issues between the Native Instruments installer from native access and my new SSD. Took me a day or so to work out where the file paths were for everything and to re-install several 3rd party soft synths and plugins, but everything seems solid now and I'm more confident I won't be getting any prying eyes on what I'm doing with respect to moving home and divorce ****. I clean installed everything inc OSX and most other plugins etc, and manually moved certain music folders and files over to the new SSD in the same locations and mapped everything out again. I did indeed go for a new 2TB SSD from Crucial and upgraded my RAM from 8gb to 16gb at the same time. Source Mac: 2021 MacBook Pro (M1), on Monterey 12.2.Thanks for the info and notes on how you all manage your kit.Using CCC to replace TM, would I need both CCC's Snapshots AND SafetyNet? Or just Snapshots? I'm not quite clear exactly how CCC SafetyNet relates to Snapshots. But, is a CCC Flat Clone ever better or more usefaul than a CCC Versioned Backup? Is a Flat Clone possibly easier/safer to restore from? Is the only real downside of a Versioned Backup that the disk should be 2-3x larger, and thus (for me anyway) on HDD, rather than SSD? I see how a CCC Versioned Backup (WiFi/auto/nightly) is better than a Flat Clone (USB/manual/weekly), because it runs automatically and historical versions are available. But is TM potentially more versatile, being a native macOS option for Recovery mode? I worry about TM's reliability, bugs, and possible corruption (caused by interrupting a backup when the source Mac is closed/moved). I see how a CCC Versioned Backup can be better than TM, because CCC is more reliable and configurable. Carbon Copy Cloner : Flat Clone (without CCC Snapshots and SafetyNet) - via direct-attached USB SSD (manually weekly).Carbon Copy Cloner : Versioned Backups (using CCC Snapshots and SafetyNet) - via WiFi (scheduled nightly), to an external HDD attached to a different/host Mac.Time Machine - via WiFi ( hourly), to an external HDD attached to a different/host Mac.Seeking advise on local backups for a MacBook Pro.