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Dom in reply to @alasdairw

Thanks! Will get on and order an SSD and adapter today then.

Anyone got a preferred drive for these machines? If not I'll go by best Amazon review.

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alasdairw in reply to @Dom

I've fitted 2 Samsung 840 EVO's, nice but pricey.

Its the most straightforward thing if you use time machine or CCCloner. The faffy part is setting up a USB install disk, I used Diskmaker X. Then it just takes hours to restore everything. I had a few problems both times, once I with a timestamp error on the SSD and another I will just never know.

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Dom in reply to @alasdairw

I've fitted 2 Samsung 840 EVO's, nice but pricey.

Awesome, same drive I bought yesterday. I paid £89 for a 250GB which I thought seemed reasonable.

Its the most straightforward thing if you use time machine or CCCloner.

The current machine could do with a bit of a clean, so I'm going to install a fresh copy of OS X on the new drive.

Hopefully the createinstallmedia application is still available to use for building the USB install media, as it was in Mavericks.

Cheers for the help!

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