SSD - change Hard Drive to SSD

Hi - I have a MacBook Pro 15 "2011 end and need to know if this model can accept a SSD and the specification of what I should look for if so? Thank you all.

you don't know.

Use a SATA SSD in a form factor of 2.5 inches, the same as the drive that you delete. Put the new drive in an external enclosure, or use an adapter. Install Mac OS on it first, THEN do the surgery to separate questions of surgery installation problems. Don't pay extra for SATA III 6 GB, because your Mac uses SATA II 3 GB which is well fast enough for most cases. Use your current drive size (and whether that will continue to meet your needs) as a guide, then buy a bigger than that of the road. You won't run out of space and having to redo all this.

This also allows you to use your old drive recovery partition to download and install on the new drive. You could also do a 8GB USB stick using DiskMaker X standalone installer. Such an installation program includes the necessary set of utilities as well.

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