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I'm removing my 500GB HDD on my 13" Macbook Pro Late 2011 and installing a Samsung 500GB Evo SSD.

There are 2 common ways of cloning all the data from the HDD to a Samsung SSD.

Either using Disk Utility -> Clone or Installing Samsung's Data Migration Tool.

What I want to know is what is the better way and why? Maybe there is no difference, but if there is, I would like to know if anyone has the answer?

Regards

I know that Disk Utility will create the recovery partition as well as copying your data to the new SSD.  I do not know if the Samsung software will.  I vote for Disk Utility.

Be aware that some users on these forums have experienced difficulties with Samsung SSDs.  On Samsung's web site there is no mention of Mac compatibility.

Ciao.

I just upgraded my Macbook Pro 13" (Early 2011)

I replaced the 500GB drive with a Samsung 500GB SSD 850 EVO.

To copy my original hard drive I used:

Carbon Copy Cloner. It worked very good. I used an Anker USB3.0 to Sata 3 interface (from Amazon.ca) to connect computer to SSD drive via USB port.

Carbon Copy Cloner makes a clone of your drive including the recovery partition.

I then removed my optical drive and replaced it with a "AGPtek SATA 2.5"/9mm 2nd Hard Disk Drive Cady for $14.99 (from Amazon.ca).

This allowed my to install the original hard drive in place of the optical drive.

Carbon Copy Cloner is an excellent tool for duplicating as well as creating a boot backup drive.  The only downside it is not free, but in the long run if it is used also as a backup application, it is worth the cost.  But fundamentally for copying data from one HDD to another, it offers no advantage over Disk utility.

Ciao.

I just got a 250GB Samsung 850 EVO, and put in the disk and read the digital manual, and it said nothing about Mac OS in the required system requirements; all Windows. I assume it won't work with mac.

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