If your current drive has Lion, probably the fastest way to deal with all this is to use Carbon Copy Cloner and any external ssd case, clone the drive (CCC can recognize Lion's recovery partition and clone that too), when the clone is finished and you're sure it boots (by pressing ⌥ upon power on and selecting the external drive), you can then proceed to swap the drives and put the SSD you just cloned/tested in the internal bay, with luck, if you've gotten a flexible enough disc enclosure, you can even use the internal drive as a backup ) Under Lion you don't have a "bootable media DVD" (unless you have a USB-Key which you don't mention). With an SSD, access times are so fast, you may not notice, but I'd rather have one process that works either way - SSD to HD or back, larger drive to smaller, etc. No need to move things over and in fact, it's sometimes better to let the system lay out the files in order rather than block copying the old structure on to a pristine new drive. I'd say save your money on the transfer kit unless you want that anyhow.
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Once you are happy, erase Lion and re-install a fresh copy but instead of making a new account, just migrate over from the Time Machine backup.įor advanced users, using Disk Utility or SuperDuper/CarbonCop圜loner can be fun, but even knowing how to do all that, I prefer the opportunity to test my backup since being able to restore a backup is so overlooked and catastrophic when it fails on you should you need it.
Now you can place the new drive in your mac and install a fresh copy of Lion and play around a bit to make sure it works. You can use any USB flash drive that has 1G of space and can be erased or partitioned for your Recovery HD storage. My favorite method is to install a Recovery HD onto an external USB drive and then do a final backup to Time Machine.
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