In order to Migrate your data you will need one of the following: Seasoned Mac users know that this tool migrates your data quickly and conveniently, but those who switched from the Microsoft Windows environment will find this tool easier to use than Windows Easy Transfer, the Windows equivalent. We are testing an MCE Optibay 2.5″ notebook to SuperDrive adapter and this led us to the Migration Assistant. In our case we replaced a Seagate Momentus XT Hybrid hard drive with an OCZ Agility II 128GB SSD. After running the utility, use something like SugarSync for ongoing sync. You won’t want to sync between two computers repeatedly using Migration Assistant, but this is a good option to get the process started. Use Migration Assistant if you replace your hard drive, get a new computer, or want all of the files and programs used on one computer on another.
Without the OS X utility, this process takes a day to do manually. Wee prepared the SSD in the MacBook Pro with all of our data moved from the old hard drive and it only took a couple of hours. We decided to share what we learned in this process. When we replaced the hard drive in a MacBook Pro with a 128GB SSD the process took far less time that it would have otherwise. The OS X Migration Assistant can help you move data to a new hard drive in a fraction of the time it would take to do manually.
