Sadly there’s an error in the iFixit store. The 2.5” FireCuda drive is not able to be used in your system. What happened is Seagate upgraded the drive awhile ago and the error was not caught. Most people have SATA III (6.0 Gb/s) systems now, so the few times older systems pop up that are upgrading is far fewer.
So what is the issue??
The older drive Seagate Laptop SSHD ST1000LM014 offered support for all versions of SATA (review the Interface line in the spec sheet) Now the newer Seagate FireCuda ST1000LX015 no longer offers support for the older SATA specs.
The best way to think of this is the older drive is like a car with an automatic transmission able to magically go to the best gear for the road. Here the newer drive only has one speed and has no means to run at the needed slower speed. I use the terms Auto Vs Fixed speed to delineate the difference. You can get older drives with are Fixed speed SATA I (1.5 Gb/s) or SATA II (3.0 Gb/s) as well. Some older SATA III (6.0 Gb/s) drives offered a jumper to allow you to run in what was called compatibility mode, basically running at SATA I (1.5 Gb/s).
Personally, I was very upset when Seagate dropped support for SATA II in this series as I loved the drive for people like you!
For now if you can find the older Seagate ST1000LM014 you’ll be golden!
Or, you’ll need to jump to a SSD as none of the current 2.5” disk drives (HDD or SSHD) being produced offer SATA II support any more.
As you are hearing from me you need to look at the given drives spec sheet to make sure SATA II (3.0 Gb/s) is listed, if its not it won’t work reliably as you have found out here.
I’m sorry you fell into the hole. Contact the Fixit store to get a refund.
Look at Samsung EVO as a good choice if you decide to jump to a SSD.
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Lets back up here...
What is the size of your original drive? Also what is the model and size of the Seagate you are putting in.
How did you prep the drive and did you first install a fresh copy of the OS before trying to restore the TimeMachine backup.
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Old 340 GB new 1TB.
Server at Ifixit is down but they only have the one Unformatted Seagate Drive that’s hybrid SATA. I did nothing to prep the drive. I booted the laptop holding option key and got into disk utility. Thanks for the help if you can
ST1000LX015
Hybrid technology from Seagate combines SSD and traditional hard drive technology to provide SSD speeds from an affordable high capacity hard drive. Adaptive Memory technology keeps the files and file types you access the most ready and available for instant transfer from SSD.
No software or operating system requirements, Adaptive Memory technology is self-contained and works like any SATA drive.
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Your systems specs: MacBookPro6,2 Here's the discreet specs of the top model MacBook Pro 15" 2.8 GHz i7 (Mid-2010)
Storage Interface: Serial ATA (3 Gb/s)
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