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today I'm going to show you how to replace the hard drive in your macbook pro you have two options one is you can keep the same type of hard drive that's in there now and just increase the capacity of it this is the cheaper option or you can upgrade to an SSD or a solid-state drive the SSDs are a little bit more expensive but your computer will boot in half the time the programs will load faster there's no moving parts so your battery will last longer inside of your laptop they run cooler and they also run quieter but I will link both hard drives down in the video description below as always it's your choice I'm just here to show you how it's done after you pick which drive you want you have to move all of your stuff over from one drive to the other this is called cloning the drive it'll keep all of your files all of your programs all of your homework all of your music everything will still be there when you clone the drive I personally use a program called super duper but you can also use a program called Carbon Copy cloner both of them do about the same thing just download the program plug your new hard drive into your computer and then do the clone it'll probably take you know about 45 minutes to a couple hours depending on how much stuff you have on your hard drive to transfer over I'll link the transferring cable along with the hard drives down in the video description below as well so let's get started remember that you open your macbook pro at your own risk there are 10 Phillips head screws located around the back edge of the computer so unscrew all of those and remove the back panel then you have two screws that are holding in the hard drive they're connected to this little black bracket so set that off to the side somewhere safe pull up on the little tab and be super careful right here you want to unplug the hard drive so you don't damage that little ribbon cable that's connecting the plug to the hard drive you can also see there's some silver niblets on the side of the hard drive so unscrew those with a pentalobe screwdriver if you don't have one of those I will include it in the video description transfer over the clear tab to your new hard drive I'm going with the solid-state drive on this computer just because of all the benefits that it has screwing in those little pentalobe screws on the side and these just kind of hold the hard drive in place after you plug it back in it's the same connector as the old hard drive used I'm going to put the little and silver niblets into the black bracket on that end piece and then just set it down into place getting that black bracket screwed down again and then get those tins screws back in place that's it thanks for watching if you have any questions make sure to leave them down in the comments below don't forget to like if this video helped you and don't forget to subscribe it doesn't mean a lot hope see you around