dadi_oh Posted September 25, 2010 Share Posted September 25, 2010 Just bought a used OCZ Vertex 120GB SSD to install in my 2009 Macbook Pro 13 2.26GHz 4GB. This will replace my Momentus XT 320GB hybrid drive. Running Snow Leopard 10.6.4 I am wondering about the preparation of the SSD for installation. 1) Since it is a used drive I assume that I should zero out the drive to ensure I am starting from a completely fresh set of cells? Since OSX doesn't support trim I suppose I should at least start with a clean drive. I saw one review that showed OSX not showing the same level of degradation of a "dirty" SSD as compared to the drastic performance hit on Windows 7 (I hope this is the case). 2) Was going to use Superduper to create an image of my current drive and then write that to the SSD. Any issue with this? (I really don't want to go through a complete reinstallation of OSX and apps). 3) I read that I should disable certain features such as spotlight and sleep. Anything else to maximize the SSD experience on OSX? Any other thoughts or recommendations? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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