5 year warranty on Samsung EVO SSD.

I have no experience with OWC SSD

Been doing this upgrade since 2012. Go with Samsung.

I bought a new Samsung 1 TB 860 EVO for $135 new off of Ebay. It was on sale right before Christmas with free shipping & no tax.

ok anything specific I would have to do to the drive at install?

850 or 860 and i believe there are 2 versions regular and pro version, am i right?

Yeah there’s evo and pro. I believe Pro has the longer warrnaty.



Boot to the internet partition. In disk utility, format the drive Mac OS extended journal if I remember correctly. Then download the OS. This’ll work quicker if you’re connected to Ethernet.

If you just want to clone your data that’s another option too. You can clone your current drive with carbon copy or super duper. In disk utility you can just write over the blank drive with your data after formatting the new Samsung.

I formatted, used ccc with an external HD bay and installed the SSD afterwards. Worked perfect.

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That's basically what i said lol but i didn't explain the external enclosure. I was on the train while typing that.

Thanks guys ... i usualy do a clean install... have my backup of music on an externa drive

Use my usb drive install of yosemite... is this still the most stable version to use with sdj pro?

Yeah I usually do clean install too and start fresh. All I do is add the music. Try not to clone old junk. That’s how you save space as well. Keep things clean.

So many people don’t realize the have duplicate music files too.

Thats true @GioAlex

I saved my boy about 100gbs worth of stuff that was sitting in downloads but was also somewhere else and/or iTunes

i need some feedback from you experienced dudes. I do these upgrades all the time for friends as well. When you want to move the library from the music folder to the external, how are you guys accomplishing keeping the database structure within serato to use the moved music (not including the itunes library, just the standard serato crates).