Hard Drive Caddy for MBP

Nah, I've got the SSD for the OS and apps. It's more than enough. Just using the 750GB for storage only ;)
 
I installed the Samsung 840 Pro SSD and the old HDD in the caddy.

Booted from a bare bones recovery USB drive (http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1433), used recovery drive Terminal to format both drives and create the Fusion drive (took about 5 minutes, see http://blog.macsales.com/17624-os-x...tup-option-for-non-fusion-drive-equipped-macs), I now have one big logical drive (fusion).

According to Blackmagic Disk Speed Test I get Read of 250MB/s and Write of 205MB/s. On my SATAII controller the maximum I can get from the SSD is 250MB/s in any case. For me the convenience of having one big drive with close to SSD speed is worth the 20% drop in write speed.
 
Ah, that means updating to Mountain Lion. I'm still on Snow Leopard. The startup and shutdown time on ML is the reason I uninstalled it. SL bootup and shutdown was brilliant, and everything just felt faster, so I just went back to it. now that I have an SSD, I may give ML another go.
 
Managed to resurect my previously dead mbp with the caddy but due to my clumsiness lost wifi/Bluetooth in the process :o so I'm going to have to buy a wifi dongle now tomorrow.

Now it's time to order another caddy for my current mbp.
 
So i read you cant use the optical drive slot for a 6GB ssd it only only supports 3GB? does this mean i have to use the optical drive for my standard 500GB (MAcbook Pro 13. 2012) and the normal drive for my 128GB corsair ssd 6GB? How do i clone my O.S onto the SSD before installing?
 
blackberryplaybook said:
So i read you cant use the optical drive slot for a 6GB ssd it only only supports 3GB? does this mean i have to use the optical drive for my standard 500GB (MAcbook Pro 13. 2012) and the normal drive for my 128GB corsair ssd 6GB? How do i clone my O.S onto the SSD before installing?
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You can only really clone the drive if the ssd has a higher capacity than the original hdd. In that case superduper works like a charm.
 
bwana said:
You can only really clone the drive if the ssd has a higher capacity than the original hdd. In that case superduper works like a charm.
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Carbon Copy Cloner works brilliantly as well. I'd copy the data, ie. documents, music, videos, etc. to an external first, and then delete it on the source drive. It will save time during the clone process. Just copy it back to the other drive after formatting it.
 
Thread necro, anyone know of a place I can get this locally?
 
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