Which internal SSD should I go with on my mid 2012 MBP?

[jerrydpi]

Well, when it rains, it does indeed pour 🙂

 

I "thought" I had a 2TB SSD in my mid 2012 MBP (Model A1286), but it turns out I have a Seagate ST2000LM003 - 2TB 5.4K RPM SATA 9.5mm 2.5" Hard Drive.

 

So:

1) What internal SSD should I go with?

2) Will I need an installation kit?

Thanks,

Jerry

[wonshu]

IIRC it's fairly easy to swap the harddrive in a 2012 model, but check ifixit again.

I would go with a Samsung Evo and just choose the capacity that fits your budget. But these ones have the correct form factor and the Samsung SSDs are the most reliable on the market.

[Danny Wyatt]

Been using Samsung SSD 850 EVO 1TB for years and I'm pretty happy with it. Never had any issues

[loukash]

1 hour ago, jerrydpi said:

1) What internal SSD should I go with?

As I have already noted in your other thread, I'm using a SanDisk Ultra 3D 2TB in my MBP mid-2012 (and also in MBP 2008), and it literally just works. They are not the fastest today, but the speed will be limited by the SATA 3 bus anyway so there's no benefit in getting a faster drive at all. 

1 hour ago, jerrydpi said:

2) Will I need an installation kit?

44 minutes ago, wonshu said:

check ifixit

Yep, here it is:

Done that a few times over the years.
I have the full iFixIt toolkit, but this drive replacement is possible without the special Apple-only screwdrivers, a couple of standard Philips and Torx bits will do.

Edited September 23, 2023 by loukash

[des99]

On my old 2011 MBP, I did the whole bit - removed the optical drive, mounted the existing 2.5" spinning drive into the optical bay with a mounting kit, and then put a Crucial SSD in place of the original drive. Worked (and still works) great!

[Danny Wyatt]

4 minutes ago, des99 said:

On my old 2011 MBP, I did the whole bit - removed the optical drive, mounted the existing 2.5" spinning drive into the optical bay with a mounting kit, and then put a Crucial SSD in place of the original drive. Worked (and still works) great!

Same here. Optical drive is gone. HDD is now in that place, SSD is the main disk. 

[jerrydpi]

2 hours ago, Danny Wyatt said:

Same here. Optical drive is gone. HDD is now in that place, SSD is the main disk. 

1) What's the advantage to putting the Seagate HDD into the Optical Drive space?

2) What mounting kit will I need to mount the Seagate HDD into the Optical Drive space?

3) Regardless of whether I put the Seagate into the Optical Drive space or not, how do I transfer all the data on the Seagate to the new SSD?

 

For instance, do I transfer the data with the Seagate still in the MBP to the SSD that will be located outside the computer, or do I transfer the data with the Seagate removed, and the SSD has been installed in its place?

 

I hope I said that right 🙂 🙂 

[des99]

37 minutes ago, jerrydpi said:

1) What's the advantage to putting the Seagate HDD into the Optical Drive space?

You can have two drives in the computer instead of one, for more internal storage space.

37 minutes ago, jerrydpi said:

2) What mounting kit will I need to mount the Seagate HDD into the Optical Drive space?

They're very common, just google them. I can't remember which particular model it was, it was probably a decade ago when I did mine...

38 minutes ago, jerrydpi said:

3) Regardless of whether I put the Seagate into the Optical Drive space or not, how do I transfer all the data on the Seagate to the new SSD?

I just stuck the old drive in a USB enclosure and copied from one to the other...

40 minutes ago, jerrydpi said:

For instance, do I transfer the data with the Seagate still in the MBP to the SSD that will be located outside the computer, or do I transfer the data with the Seagate removed, and the SSD has been installed in its place?

The first, mirror the data to the new drive, then swap them over.

[jerrydpi]

I decided to go with a Samsung 750 EVO (I got a pretty good price on Amazon Prime), and I received it today.

I have an external usb enclosure, I put the Samsung into it and formatted it to Mac OS Extended (Journaled).

 

As Forrest Gump said, I may be dumb Jenny, but I do know to backup my computer first to the Time Machine 🙂

 

So once that is done, how do I copy (or is it called transferring? 🙂 ) all the data from the Seagate to the Samsung, and how long should the process take (I have 1.3TB free on the 2TB Seagate HDD)?

[Danny Wyatt]

I'm assuming you will be using the SSD as an internal disk, right? That's what makes more sense to me and then using the HDD inside the USB enclosure as a backup or extra storage, or as suggested, replace the DVD drive with the HDD.

[jerrydpi]

Yes, the SSD will replace the existing HDD.

[jerrydpi]

1 hour ago, jerrydpi said:

Yes, the SSD will replace the existing HDD.

......................So how do I copy (or is it called transferring? 🙂 ) all the data from the Seagate to the Samsung, and how long should the process take (I have 1.3TB free on the 2TB Seagate HDD)?

[Danny Wyatt]

6 hours ago, jerrydpi said:

......................So how do I copy (or is it called transferring? 🙂 ) all the data from the Seagate to the Samsung, and how long should the process take (I have 1.3TB free on the 2TB Seagate HDD)?

I’ve been using a program called Carbon Copy Cloner for many years and I’m happy with it. It’s a backup tool and it clones a disk including everything to make it bootable, which is what you want. 
If you purchase it I would recommend getting in touch with them asking for instructions on how to do it. They are pretty helpful. 
 

I always suggest people should have daily backups (if you don’t have a backup system already) and CCC is what I always suggest

 

the time it takes to copy depends on your computer, the disks, if it’s USB 2 or 3, etc

[jerrydpi]

5 hours ago, Danny Wyatt said:

I’ve been using a program called Carbon Copy Cloner for many years and I’m happy with it. It’s a backup tool and it clones a disk including everything to make it bootable, which is what you want. 
If you purchase it I would recommend getting in touch with them asking for instructions on how to do it. They are pretty helpful. 
 

I always suggest people should have daily backups (if you don’t have a backup system already) and CCC is what I always suggest

the time it takes to copy depends on your computer, the disks, if it’s USB 2 or 3, etc

So there is no way to copy/transfer the HDD data to the SDD without buy a third party program?

[des99]

25 minutes ago, jerrydpi said:

So there is no way to copy/transfer the HDD data to the SDD without buy a third party program?

I use SuperDuper for this, and the basic version which will do disk clones is also free.

[enossified]

I’ve used both OWC and SanDisk SATA SSDs to replace internal HDDs in MacBooks. OWC sells kits with some tools and a bus powered enclosure to use when cloning if you don’t have an empty enclosure or drive dock already. 

Like Des99, I use SuperDuper for the cloning.

[loukash]

On 9/24/2023 at 3:58 AM, jerrydpi said:

1) What's the advantage to putting the Seagate HDD into the Optical Drive space?

What's the advantage of removing the optical anyway…?
Heck, an external DVD-R drive was among the first things I bought for my new MBA last month.
That said though, the ultraslim optical "SuperDrives" were always prone to errors. Both Intel MBPs as well as the ancient PowerBook G4 are having their 3rd replacements inside, most of them replaced while still in warranty…

11 hours ago, jerrydpi said:

So there is no way to copy/transfer the HDD data to the SDD without buy a third party program?

Disk Utility actually has the Restore Disk mode which should do it just fine on a blank target disk. Could be that it was even the method that I used back in 2019, I don't remember.

Apps like SuperDuper are more useful if you need to update an existing clone without erasing it first.

[jerrydpi]

Update:

I started the SupeDuper copy process last night at 12:00, and when I went to bed at 2:30, about 60GB had been copied so far.

I just woke up, and there were two alerts on my desktop saying the EVO had been improperly ejected.

How do I check if the entire copy process has been completed?

[wonshu]

Just start the copy again and SuperDuper should skip over everything that is on the destination already and only copy what's missing. Should be very quick.

My guess is that the MBP went to sleep after SuperDuper finished and turned off the power to the external drive. This sometimes happens and is very unsettling.

[loukash]

2 hours ago, wonshu said:

My guess is that the MBP went to sleep after SuperDuper finished and turned off the power to the external drive.

Oh yes, in such scenarios always make sure that sleep is turned off!

[des99]

3 hours ago, jerrydpi said:

How do I check if the entire copy process has been completed?

Check file size? After it was finished, SD should have remained open, and green, showing you the backup was completed successfully. Are you saying your computer rebooted or something, and SD was no longer running?

With the paid version, you can simply do the same job in update mode, and SD will compare the two, and make any changes that are locally different, as a way of double checking. But that's a feature that isn't available in the free version.

Otherwise, load the saved script for the backup job, and choose "Show Log" to check it was completed properly. Look for "Copy complete" at the end.

Edited September 26, 2023 by des99

[loukash]

34 minutes ago, des99 said:

Check file size?

The clone will be initially slightly smaller because SuperDuper excludes various system cache folders.

[jerrydpi]

36 minutes ago, des99 said:

Check file size? After it was finished, SD should have remained open, and green, showing you the backup was completed successfully. Are you saying your computer rebooted or something, and SD was no longer running?

With the paid version, you can simply do the same job in update mode, and SD will compare the two, and make any changes that are locally different, as a way of double checking. But that's a feature that isn't available in the free version.

Otherwise, load the saved script for the backup job, and choose "Show Log" to check it was completed properly. Look for "Copy complete" at the end.

You’re correct about the free copy :)

When I followed wonshu’s advice, the copy started from scratch again, but an advantage of not copying when asleep is that I can now keep a closer watch on what’s going on. And as of 3:30:07 Elapsed Time, 300GB have been copied.

[jerrydpi]

40 minutes ago, des99 said:

Check file size? After it was finished, SD should have remained open, and green, showing you the backup was completed successfully. Are you saying your computer rebooted or something, and SD was no longer running?

With the paid version, you can simply do the same job in update mode, and SD will compare the two, and make any changes that are locally different, as a way of double checking. But that's a feature that isn't available in the free version.

Otherwise, load the saved script for the backup job, and choose "Show Log" to check it was completed properly. Look for "Copy complete" at the end.

Yes, when I checked my computer after waking up, the SSD was idle, but the SSD icon was still on my desktop, and when I checked what was on the SSD, all it had on it was about 310GB, and last time I checked the existing 2TD HDD, it had about 670GB on it.

 

But IMHO, none of this matters because after I launched SuperDuper again, it erased the SSD, and it's copying now as we type 🙂

[wonshu]

24 minutes ago, jerrydpi said:

You’re correct about the free copy :)

 

Oh no, I'm sorry, I didn't know that...

But, it's good to just do it twice. You want to be sure it's done right. 🙂 

[jerrydpi]

No problem my friend ❤️
 

That being said, I just checked my computer, and for some reason SuperDuper has stopped copying.

The blue status bar is only about half way, and only 344.79 GB has been copied.

FWIW, when I got the info on the SSD this morning before starting over, it did say it had about the same amount on it.

I wonder if there is a size limit as to how much one can copy on the free version?

[wonshu]

Check the log, but this shouldn't happen.

Personally I use Carbon Copy Cloner. It's another software that does the same thing. It fully functions for 30 days. Perhaps try that. It can update what's already there!

Edited September 26, 2023 by wonshu

[jerrydpi]

5 minutes ago, wonshu said:

Check the log, but this shouldn't happen.

Personally I use Carbon Copy Cloner. It's another software that does the same thing. It fully functions for 30 days. Perhaps try that. It can update what's already there!

 10:19:49 AM | Info | SuperDuper! Version 3.7.5 (131-4cb66b9), path: /Applications/SuperDuper!.app, load address: 0x10328d000

| 10:19:49 AM | Info | Started on Tue, Sep 26, 2023 at 10:19 AM

| 10:19:49 AM | Info | Source Volume: " Macintosh HD" mount: '/' device: disk1s5 file system: 'APFS' protocol: SATA macOS: 10.15.7 (19H2) capacity: 2 TB available: 1.31 TB files: 372,953 directories: 108,865

| 10:19:49 AM | Info | Target Volume: "750 EVO" mount: '/Volumes/750 EVO' device: disk3s5 file system: 'APFS' protocol: USB macOS: 10.15.7 (19H2) capacity: 2 TB available: 1.65 TB files: 372,625 directories: 108,864

| 10:19:49 AM | Info | Copy Mode   : Erase, then copy files

| 10:19:49 AM | Info | Copy Script : Backup - all files.dset

| 10:19:49 AM | Info | Transcript  : BuildTranscript.plist

| 10:19:52 AM | Info | PHASE: 1. Prepare to Copy Files

| 10:19:52 AM | Info | ...ACTION: Preparing  Macintosh HD

| 10:19:53 AM | Info | ......COMMAND => Enabling permissions on  Macintosh HD

| 10:19:55 AM | Info | ...ACTION: Preparing  Macintosh HD snapshot

| 10:19:55 AM | Info | ......COMMAND => Creating Snapshot of  Macintosh HD

| 10:20:35 AM | Info | ......COMMAND => Mounting Snapshot for  Macintosh HD

| 10:20:36 AM | Info | ...ACTION: Erasing 750 EVO

| 10:20:36 AM | Info | ......COMMAND => Erasing 750 EVO

| 10:20:37 AM | Info |       Erasing volume group

| 10:20:37 AM | Info |       Unmounting /dev/disk3s1 mounted on /Volumes/750 EVO - Data

| 10:20:38 AM | Info |       Volume 750 EVO - Data on disk3s1 unmounted

| 10:20:38 AM | Info |       Started APFS operation

| 10:20:38 AM | Info |       Deleting APFS Volume from its APFS Container

| 10:20:38 AM | Info |       Unmounting disk3s5

| 10:20:38 AM | Info |       Erasing any xART session referenced by 9F3A8DEF-9170-4255-A19F-70E9E5D477C6

| 10:20:39 AM | Info |       Deleting Volume

| 10:20:43 AM | Info |       Removing any Preboot and Recovery Directories

| 10:20:45 AM | Info |       Finished APFS operation

| 10:20:45 AM | Info |       Started APFS operation

| 10:20:45 AM | Info |       Preparing to erase APFS Volume content

| 10:20:45 AM | Info |       Checking mount state

| 10:20:45 AM | Info |       Erasing APFS Volume disk3s1 by deleting and re-adding

| 10:20:45 AM | Info |       Deleting APFS Volume from its APFS Container

| 10:20:45 AM | Info |       Unmounting disk3s1

| 10:20:45 AM | Info |       Erasing any xART session referenced by D005B82A-8EE7-4538-8E1E-1D36BE1DA177

| 10:20:45 AM | Info |       Deleting Volume

| 10:20:51 AM | Info |       Removing any Preboot and Recovery Directories

| 10:20:52 AM | Info |       Preparing to add APFS Volume to APFS Container disk3

| 10:20:52 AM | Info |       Creating APFS Volume

| 10:20:53 AM | Info |       Created new APFS Volume disk3s1

| 10:20:53 AM | Info |       Setting mount state

| 10:20:54 AM | Info |       Setting volume permissions

| 10:20:54 AM | Info |       Finished APFS operation

| 10:20:54 AM | Info |       Will export new APFS Volume "750 EVO" from APFS Container Reference disk3

| 10:20:54 AM | Info |       Started APFS operation on disk3

| 10:20:54 AM | Info |       Preparing to add APFS Volume to APFS Container disk3

| 10:20:54 AM | Info |       Creating APFS Volume

| 10:20:54 AM | Info |       Created new APFS Volume disk3s5

| 10:20:54 AM | Info |       Mounting APFS Volume

| 10:20:55 AM | Info |       Setting volume permissions

| 10:20:55 AM | Info |       Disk from APFS operation: disk3s5

| 10:20:55 AM | Info |       Finished APFS operation on disk3

| 10:20:56 AM | Info | ...ACTION: Preparing 750 EVO

| 10:20:56 AM | Info | ......COMMAND => Checking APFS Preboot partition for 750 EVO

| 10:20:57 AM | Info | ......COMMAND => Checking APFS Recovery partition for 750 EVO

| 10:20:58 AM | Info | ......COMMAND => Checking APFS Virtual Memory partition for 750 EVO

| 10:20:58 AM | Info | ......COMMAND => Checking APFS Volume Group for 750 EVO

| 10:20:59 AM | Info | ......COMMAND => Enabling permissions on 750 EVO

| 10:20:59 AM | Info |       /dev/disk1s5 on / (apfs, local, read-only, journaled)

| 10:20:59 AM | Info |       devfs on /dev (devfs, local, nobrowse)

| 10:20:59 AM | Info |       /dev/disk1s1 on /System/Volumes/Data (apfs, local, journaled, nobrowse)

| 10:20:59 AM | Info |       /dev/disk1s4 on /private/var/vm (apfs, local, journaled, nobrowse)

| 10:20:59 AM | Info |       map auto_home on /System/Volumes/Data/home (autofs, automounted, nobrowse)

| 10:20:59 AM | Info |       com.apple.TimeMachine.2023-09-25-234806.local@/dev/disk1s1 on /private/var/folders/98/zbxv3l6n3ks6wmyh5kbf31p80000gn/T/com.blacey.SuperDuper/707CD1CF-7B29-44D2-B350-F2C0BC60161B/snapshot (apfs, local, read-only, journaled, nobrowse)

| 10:20:59 AM | Info |       com.apple.TimeMachine.2023-09-26-102033.local@/dev/disk1s1 on /private/var/folders/98/zbxv3l6n3ks6wmyh5kbf31p80000gn/T/com.blacey.SuperDuper/4B68BA15-A414-4966-A410-D55CCBB3D725/snapshot (apfs, local, read-only, journaled, nobrowse)

| 10:20:59 AM | Info |       /dev/disk3s1 on /Volumes/750 EVO - Data (apfs, local, nodev, nosuid, journaled, noowners)

| 10:20:59 AM | Info |       /dev/disk3s5 on /Volumes/750 EVO (apfs, local, nodev, nosuid, journaled, noowners)

| 10:21:00 AM | Info |       Enabling permissions on device disk3s5

| 10:21:00 AM | Info |       File system user/group ownership enabled

| 10:21:00 AM | Info |       Enabling permissions on device disk3s1

| 10:21:01 AM | Info |       File system user/group ownership enabled

| 10:21:01 AM | Info |       Permissions are enabled on /Volumes/750 EVO

| 10:21:01 AM | Info | ......COMMAND => Verifying that 750 EVO ACL support matches  Macintosh HD

| 10:21:02 AM | Info | ......COMMAND => Pausing Spotlight indexing for 750 EVO

| 10:21:03 AM | Info | PHASE: 2. Copy System Files

| 10:21:03 AM | Info | ...ACTION: Copying files from  Macintosh HD to 750 EVO  

| 10:21:04 AM | Info | ......COMMAND => Cloning  Macintosh HD to 750 EVO

| 10:21:04 AM | Info |       Will ignore error codes 1,13 encountered while copying files and directories

| 10:21:05 AM | Info |       LPX 10.4.8

| 10:21:05 AM | Info |       .vol

| 10:21:05 AM | Info |       Skipping descendent directory '/cores' because it it is not on the source device

| 10:21:05 AM | Info |       cores

| 10:21:05 AM | Info |       Skipping descendent directory '/opt' because it it is not on the source device

| 10:21:05 AM | Info |       opt

| 10:21:05 AM | Info |       Skipping descendent directory '/Users' because it it is not on the source device

| 10:21:05 AM | Info |       Users

| 10:21:05 AM | Info |       System

| 10:21:05 AM | Info |       Skipping descendent directory '/System/Volumes/Data' because it it is not on the source device

| 10:23:47 AM | Info |       Skipping descendent directory '/System/Library/PreinstalledAssetsV2' because it it is not on the source device

| 10:23:47 AM | Info |       Skipping descendent directory '/System/Library/PreinstalledAssets' because it it is not on the source device

| 10:26:14 AM | Info |       Skipping descendent directory '/System/Library/Speech' because it it is not on the source device

| 10:32:11 AM | Info |       Skipping descendent directory '/System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Library' because it it is not on the source device

| 10:33:10 AM | Info |       Skipping descendent directory '/System/Library/Assets' because it it is not on the source device

| 10:33:10 AM | Info |       Skipping descendent directory '/System/Library/AssetsV2' because it it is not on the source device

| 10:33:10 AM | Info |       Skipping descendent directory '/System/Library/Caches' because it it is not on the source device

| 10:33:10 AM | Info |       bin

| 10:33:10 AM | Info |       Preserving .VolumeIcon.icns

| 10:33:10 AM | Info |       sbin

| 10:33:10 AM | Info |       usr

| 10:33:22 AM | Info |       Skipping descendent directory '/usr/share/snmp' because it it is not on the source device

| 10:33:33 AM | Info |       Skipping descendent directory '/usr/libexec/cups' because it it is not on the source device

| 10:33:46 AM | Info |       Skipping descendent directory '/usr/local' because it it is not on the source device

| 10:33:46 AM | Info |       Skipping descendent directory '/private' because it it is not on the source device

| 10:33:46 AM | Info |       private

| 10:33:46 AM | Info |       .fseventsd

| 10:33:46 AM | Info |       Preserving .fseventsd

| 10:33:46 AM | Info |       Skipping descendent directory '/Library' because it it is not on the source device

| 10:33:46 AM | Info |       Library

| 10:33:46 AM | Info |       Skipping descendent directory '/Applications' because it it is not on the source device

| 10:33:46 AM | Info |       Applications

| 10:33:46 AM | Info |       dev

| 10:33:46 AM | Info |       Skipping descendent directory '/Volumes' because it it is not on the source device

| 10:33:46 AM | Info |       Volumes

| 10:33:46 AM | Info |       Evaluated 489747 items occupying 10.92 GB (108865 directories, 374349 files, 6533 symlinks)

| 10:33:46 AM | Info |       Copied  380550 items totaling  9.69 GB (108864 directories, 374018 files, 6532 symlinks)

| 10:33:46 AM | Info |       Cloned  9.70 GB of data in 762 seconds at an effective transfer rate of 12.73 MB/s

| 10:33:46 AM | Info | ......COMMAND => Updating firmlinks on 750 EVO

| 10:33:47 AM | Info |       Updating firmlinks on volume /Volumes/750 EVO using catalog //usr/share/firmlinks

| 10:33:47 AM | Info |       Unmounting volume group data volume disk3s1 mounted on /Volumes/750 EVO - Data

| 10:33:47 AM | Info |       Unmounting /dev/disk3s1 mounted on /Volumes/750 EVO - Data

| 10:33:47 AM | Info |       Volume 750 EVO - Data on disk3s1 unmounted

| 10:33:47 AM | Info |       Note - firmlink directory /Volumes/750 EVO/AppleInternal does not exist!

| 10:33:47 AM | Info |       Configuring firmlink Applications

| 10:33:49 AM | Info |       Configuring firmlink Library

| 10:33:49 AM | Info |       Configuring firmlink System/Library/Caches

| 10:33:49 AM | Info |       Configuring firmlink System/Library/Assets

| 10:33:49 AM | Info |       Configuring firmlink System/Library/PreinstalledAssets

| 10:33:50 AM | Info |       Configuring firmlink System/Library/AssetsV2

| 10:33:50 AM | Info |       Configuring firmlink System/Library/PreinstalledAssetsV2

| 10:33:50 AM | Info |       Configuring firmlink System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Library

| 10:33:50 AM | Info |       Configuring firmlink System/Library/Speech

| 10:33:51 AM | Info |       Configuring firmlink Users

| 10:33:51 AM | Info |       Configuring firmlink Volumes

| 10:33:51 AM | Info |       Configuring firmlink cores

| 10:33:51 AM | Info |       Configuring firmlink opt

| 10:33:52 AM | Info |       Configuring firmlink private

| 10:33:52 AM | Info |       Configuring firmlink usr/local

| 10:33:52 AM | Info |       Configuring firmlink usr/libexec/cups

| 10:33:53 AM | Info |       Configuring firmlink usr/share/snmp

| 10:33:53 AM | Info |       Re-mounting volume group data volume disk3s1 onto /Volumes/750 EVO - Data

| 10:33:54 AM | Info | PHASE: 3. Copy Files

| 10:33:55 AM | Info | ...ACTION: Copying files from  Macintosh HD to 750 EVO  

| 10:33:55 AM | Info | ......COMMAND => Cloning  Macintosh HD to 750 EVO

| 10:33:55 AM | Info |       Copying all files using script: /Users/admin/Library/Application Support/SuperDuper!/Copy Scripts/Standard Scripts/Backup - all files.dset

| 10:34:00 AM | Info |       Will ignore error codes 1,13 encountered while copying files and directories

| 10:34:00 AM | Info |       Loading 39 commands from copy script /Applications/SuperDuper!.app/Contents/Resources/Copy Scripts/Exclude system temporary files.dset

| 10:34:00 AM | Info |       Loading 10 commands from copy script /Applications/SuperDuper!.app/Contents/Resources/Copy Scripts/Exclude system cache files.dset

| 10:34:00 AM | Info |       Loading 1 commands from copy script /Applications/SuperDuper!.app/Contents/Resources/Copy Scripts/Exclude Norton FileSaver files.dset

| 10:34:00 AM | Info |       Loading 2 commands from copy script /Applications/SuperDuper!.app/Contents/Resources/Copy Scripts/Exclude Google Desktop Index files.dset

| 10:34:00 AM | Info |       Loading 1 commands from copy script /Applications/SuperDuper!.app/Contents/Resources/Copy Scripts/Exclude Backblaze files.dset

| 10:34:00 AM | Info |       Loading 1 commands from copy script /Applications/SuperDuper!.app/Contents/Resources/Copy Scripts/Exclude iTunes Temporary files.dset

| 10:34:00 AM | Info |       Loading 2 commands from copy script /Applications/SuperDuper!.app/Contents/Resources/Copy Scripts/Exclude Mozy Cache and Log files.dset

| 10:34:00 AM | Info |       Loading 1 commands from copy script /Applications/SuperDuper!.app/Contents/Resources/Copy Scripts/Exclude PGP Whole Disk Encryption files.dset

| 10:34:00 AM | Info |       Loading 2 commands from copy script /Applications/SuperDuper!.app/Contents/Resources/Copy Scripts/Exclude Local Revision and Backup files.dset

| 10:34:00 AM | Info |       Loading 1 commands from copy script /Applications/SuperDuper!.app/Contents/Resources/Copy Scripts/Exclude Transporter Library mount.dset

| 10:34:00 AM | Info |       Loading 1 commands from copy script /Applications/SuperDuper!.app/Contents/Resources/Copy Scripts/Exclude Crash Plan Cache.dset

| 10:34:00 AM | Info |       Loading 0 commands from copy script /Users/admin/Library/Application Support/SuperDuper!/Copy Scripts/Standard Scripts/Backup - all files.dset

| 10:34:03 AM | Info |       /.HFS+ Private Directory Data

| 10:34:03 AM | Info |       Ignoring /.HFS+ Private Directory Data

| 10:34:03 AM | Info |       /.Spotlight-V100

| 10:34:03 AM | Info |       Preserving /.Spotlight-V100

| 10:34:05 AM | Info |       /.vol

| 10:34:05 AM | Info |       Ignoring /.vol

| 10:34:05 AM | Info |       /sw

| 10:34:05 AM | Info |       /mnt

| 10:34:05 AM | Info |       /home

| 10:34:05 AM | Info |       /.TemporaryItems

| 10:34:05 AM | Info |       /cores

| 10:34:05 AM | Info |       /opt

| 10:34:05 AM | Info |       /System

| 10:34:59 AM | Info |       Ignoring /System/Library/Caches/com.apple.coresymbolicationd/data

| 10:34:59 AM | Info |       /usr

| 10:35:00 AM | Info |       /Users

| 01:11:30 PM | Info |       Ignoring /Users/admin/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.loginwindow.CD0EFB8C-75DE-5B81-B0C1-50A6CCC46B4C.plist.YAngWPi

| 01:11:31 PM | Info |       Ignoring /Users/admin/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.loginwindow.CD0EFB8C-75DE-5B81-B0C1-50A6CCC46B4C.plist

| 02:16:30 PM | Info |       /.PKInstallSandboxManager-SystemSoftware

| 02:16:30 PM | Info |       /private

| 02:22:12 PM | Info |       Ignoring /private/var/folders/98/zbxv3l6n3ks6wmyh5kbf31p80000gn/C/com.apple.mdworker.bundle

| 02:59:40 PM | Info | User terminated processing of transcript...

| 03:00:12 PM | Info |       Ignoring /private/var/folders/98/zbxv3l6n3ks6wmyh5kbf31p80000gn/C/com.apple.metadata.mdworker

| 03:00:12 PM | Info |       Disk disk3s5 vanished!

| 03:00:12 PM | Info |       Disk disk3s1 vanished!

| 03:00:12 PM | Info |       Copy stopped because the destination drive ejected while SuperDuper! was writing to it. Please check your drive, simplify your connections, restart your Mac and try again.

| 03:00:14 PM | Error | ***ERROR OCCURRED: Copy stopped because the destination drive ejected while SuperDuper! was writing to it. Please check your drive, simplify your connections, restart your Mac and try again.

 

| 03:00:14 PM | Error | ***ERROR OCCURRED: ****FAILED****: result=256 errno=60 (No such process)

 

[des99]

"Copy stopped because the destination drive ejected while SuperDuper! was writing to it. Please check your drive, simplify your connections, restart your Mac and try again."

Your SSD drive is disconnecting, going idle/sleep mode, getting too hot, your Mac ejected it, or a cable connection is dodgy - basically, SD is copying to it, but the drive is going away for some reason.

Edited September 26, 2023 by des99

[jerrydpi]

That's a lot of reasons des99 🙂

 

What would you check first, and then next, and so on and so on?