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You can put another HD (or SSD) in your optical bay: http://www.mcetech.com/optibay/ http://www.mcetech.com/optibay/ Cheap eBay brackets are ~$20 and accompli
by matthew-wegner 15y ago
You can put another HD (or SSD) in your optical bay:
http://www.mcetech.com/optibay/ http://www.mcetech.com/optibay/
Cheap eBay brackets are ~$20 and accomplish the same thing.
There are a couple of caveats--here's everything you need to know: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2493938 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2493938
- thomasgerbe 15y agoHow is the battery life?
- matthew-wegner 15y agoSeems unchanged for me (I added an SSD, so the existing 7200 RPM HD became a rarely-used media drive). I see ~5.5 hours real-world use on a 15" MBP, and my development environment includes a virtualized XP install.
- joelhooks 15y agoI saw some improvement. No hard data though.
- r00fus 15y agoGreat summary. Last year I did the same (MBP2010) and I outlined all the steps here: http://forums.macrumors.com/showpost.php?p=10814085&postcount=12 http://forums.macrumors.com/showpost.php?p=10814085&post...
- joelhooks 15y agoI used the OWC disk-doubler to replace the optical drive in my MBP and love it. The only "gotcha" that I ran into was trying to install from the wrong OS X disk. Apparently MPB needs the version it came with or newer to function.