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I have the optibay with a ssd. Good stuff but I had to drill holes in the tabs to mount all the screws(the hole was just off an 1/8") The bummer is that my late
by weaksauce 16y ago
I have the optibay with a ssd. Good stuff but I had to drill holes in the tabs to mount all the screws(the hole was just off an 1/8") The bummer is that my late-2009 15" MBP cannot handle the raw speed that 3.0Gbps can give so it would over saturate the bus and lose connection. downgrading the firmware to force a 1.5Gbps bus speed made it rock solid but a bit slower. Still so much faster than the 500GB 7200RPM Seagate though.
I also have the external cd drive that I have used a sum total of 5 times since the conversion.
- Groxx 16y agoHah, that's the exact drive I've got now, loving the space over the stock drive. Speed difference is a bit noticeable, more-so on Windows, overall probably worth the extra cost.
- bbatsell 16y agoHave the exact same setup — 2009 15" MBP with an SSD and Optibay. However, I didn't have to drill any holes, and I moved the Seagate to the Optibay and the SSD to the standard HDD slot, and I've never had any bus issues whatsoever at 3Gbps — it's rock-solid. Latest Sandforce chipset. Odd.
- weaksauce 16y agoInteresting. I didn't try the SSD in the standard slot but maybe I will have to revisit this. Thanks!