- #MACBOOK PRO 2011 HARD DRIVE IN OPTICAL BAY UPGRADE#
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#MACBOOK PRO 2011 HARD DRIVE IN OPTICAL BAY FULL#
IMPORTANT NOTE: Depending on your model of MacBook Pro, installing the SSD in the optical bay as shown will not harness the drive’s full speed. Great news the fabulous folks at Macupgrade have offered all readers a kind 10% discount on all items in their shop. Completely recommend the SSD path to anyone for whom time is precious! I for one am hooked on this latest generation of SSDs with Sandforce controllers. Previously my boot up time (from cold) was 37 seconds with the SSD, it’s now 12 seconds! Programs open in a flash too.
#MACBOOK PRO 2011 HARD DRIVE IN OPTICAL BAY UPGRADE#
I’m extremely impressed with this upgrade it has brought even more usability to my MacBook Pro and made it blisteringly fast too. Bigger projects will just be downloaded onto the conventional hard drive. The same workflow will apply to video editing with Final Cut X small projects will have video initially loaded into a Project on the SSD for speed and then moved onto the conventional hard drive for storage. The DVD Superdrive is then installed in the OWC external optical drive case. Currently additional shielding and insulated wadding to keep connections tight has helped a bit but if i really work it hard transferring multiple large files, the instability returns.Installing an OWC Mercury Electra 6G SSD into an Apple MacBook Pro (15″, Mid 2010 model). Im still trying different approaches to achieve a stable & fast solution without buying another drive as im really keen on the 2TB internal storage for dj gigs, but stability is also critical for this purpose. aka a nightmare to pinpoint an exact culprit with so many variables at play. Seems to be logic board based as some can handle sata 3 up to a certain drive size/power consumption, but mixed results seem to be dependent on drive size vs speed of data transfer vs power drain from drive vs shielding of drive and quality of connections between drive and board. After a lot of research, nobody seems to be able to pinpoint an exact source of the problem. Strangely though, i ran the system for 2yrs with a 240Gb SSD with OS+ Apps in the HD slot, and a 750Gb 7200RPM Sata3 HDD in the optical drive caddy without any issues. I have the same model and also having reliability issues after increasing hdd storage capacity in the optical caddy to 2.0TB.
I would not put in a HD in the carrier as the optical drive bay does not have crash guard protection (only the HD bay has it) so if you bang the system while it's running it could damage the HD. Or, find a FIXED SATA II (3.0 Gb/s) SSD which is almost impossible to find today. You'll need to get a larger SSD and put it into the HD bay and forget the optical drive dual drive setup.
Auto speed sensing SSD's (or HD's) don't reliably work (ones that support SATA II (3.0 Gb/s) as well as SATA III (6.0 Gb/s) systems. You have a MacBookPro8,2 system as you can see it has a Red note and if you go to the bottom you'll see the full explanation.īasically, you need a FIXED SATA speed drive and it needs to be SATA II (3.0 Gb/s) to fit into the optical drive carrier.
It makes no difference who's you have, the information holds true with all of them. First there is a known issue within the logic board of some models so using a SATA III (6.0 Gb/s) drive in the optical carrier won't work reliably.
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