MP 1,1-5,1 Any problem with direct swapping drive from MacBook?

[eicca]

I want to take my SSD out of my 2011 MacBook Pro and plug it right in to my cMP. That’s an SSD upgrade and a data migration accomplished for $0 and five minutes.

Any compatibility issues I should know about? SSD is on High Sierra and will upgrade to Mojave once installed. I expect the hardware config change will cause some minor hang ups here and there, but is there anything else I ought to watch out for?

It will, of course, be backed up before the swap.

 

[tsialex]

I want to take my SSD out of my 2011 MacBook Pro and plug it right in to my cMP. That’s an SSD upgrade and a data migration accomplished for $0 and five minutes.

Any compatibility issues I should know about? SSD is on High Sierra and will upgrade to Mojave once installed. I expect the hardware config change will cause some minor hang ups here and there, but is there anything else I ought to watch out for?

It will, of course, be backed up before the swap.

While disks from some very specific Macs, like 2009/2010 13" MBP with NVIDIA southbridge, don't work with newer Macs, in general, a macOS boot disk will work with any other Mac that support the macOS version installed.

Anyway, it's always best to start from a clean install.

 

[chrfr]

While disks from some very specific Macs, like 2009/2010 13" MBP with NVIDIA southbridge, don't work with newer Macs

I’m somewhat off topic here, but can you explain? There’s nothing special about the disks that came in these computers.

 

[macagain]

You should be fine. My cMP runs on an SSD with Catalina, which was installed while the SSD was in a 2013 mbp. Of course anytime there's a macOS update, I can't update it from the cMP. So, I pull out the sled and connect it to my 2013 mbp with a sata-to-usb cable, boot the mbp with it, update, and reinstall in the cMP. Neither machine ever complains.

 

[tsialex]

I’m somewhat off topic here, but can you explain? There’s nothing special about the disks that came in these computers.

While you can move the disk from a 2009 13" MBP to the 2010, same NVIDIA southbridge, you can't move to the 2011 or newer Macs, won't boot.

 

[chrfr]

While you can move the disk from a 2009 13" MBP to the 2010, same NVIDIA southbridge, you can't move to the 2011 or newer Macs, won't boot.

That’s not correct. I do this all the time.

 

[KeesMacPro]

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