(I actually opened Spotify by mistake and was happy to see that it actually loaded everything in a few seconds, instead of a few minutes.) When I logged in, all my Menu Bar icons and Desktop icons loaded more quickly than with the HDD, but I was still getting the Beach Ball when I would click on things like the Logo. I would get the Spinning Beach Ball in between clicks, and the overall responsiveness actually seemed worse than with the ancient HDD. I plugged the battery cable back in, put the back cover back on, and booted up. I formatted the SSD in Disk Utility, using the "OS X Extended (Journaled)" Format, and the "GUID Partition Map" Scheme. Then I cloned my HDD to the SSD using Disk Utility in Recovery Mode, and then I opened up the MacBook Pro, unplugged the battery, and swapped out the drives. ![]() Currently, my 500 GB HDD has about 400 GB of content on it. ![]() I recently purchased a brand new 1 TB Samsung EVO 870 SSD to clone my HDD to and replace for a substantial speed and storage upgrade. I am using a mid-2012 13" Unibody MacBook Pro, running OS X El Capitan (10.11.6), and my system has 8 GB of 1600 MHz DDR3 RAM, an Intel Core i7 processor, and the original 500 GB 5400 rpm Hard Disk Drive (yuck).
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