Someone gave me broken MacBook pro15” mid 2010. After replacing battery, power adapter & new charger it comes on. I don’t want anything on old drive, can I put new Crucial BX500 SSD replacing the HD?
Will computer recognize it, or do I need to keep old & try & save macOS?
Thanks for any help will be appreciated.
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Yes you can replace the current HDD for a SSD, you will need to be careful as this series only offered a SATA II (3.0 Gb/s) interface so what ever drive you install needs to be able to support this I/O speed. The Crucial BX500 SSD is a fixed SATA III (6.0 Gb/s) DRAMless drive which won’t work in this system as the drive is too fast!
You’ll need either a fixed speed SATA II (3.0 Gb/s) drive like OWC Mercury Electra 3G SSD or an auto sense drive like Samsung 860 EVO.
As far as the OS you’ll either need to prep up an external USB thumb drive as an OS installer before you replace the HDD so you can format and install the needed macOS this system can support. I would recommend you stick with macOS Sierra (10.12.x) as High Sierra introduced a new file system APFS which while better for PCI based SSD is not very good on SATA based SSD’s which is what we have here.
Format your thumb drive using Disk Utility first so it has GUID and a Journaled File System (HFS+)
Here’s the needed os installer file How to upgrade to macOS Sierra jump down to Step 4 and download the blue URL labeled: Download macOS Sierra. Then follow this guide How to create a bootable macOS Sierra installer drive
With the thumb drive plugged in and the correct drive installed you should be able to install a fresh OS onto it following the steps of the installer.
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