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Pull Out MBP Optical Replace With HD for RAID?
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I have a late 2008 15" unibody MBP (2.8GHz) with a 320@72 and a 48GB ExpressCard SSD. I use the SSD as the boot volume, and it seems a bunch faster than the HDD. I almost never use my optical drive and my laptop's data is backed up whenever I'm on network. Does anyone know if I can remove the optical drive and put in another HDD for a RAID? I assume since they're both SATA the answer is yes, but I'd have to figure out how to mount it mount it. Ideas?
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iMac Late '15 5K 27" 4.0 Quad i7 24/512GB SSD OWC ThunderDock 2 Blu-Ray ±RW MBP '14 Retina 15" 2.6 16/1TB iPhone 7+ 128 Jet Black iPad Pro 128 + Cellular
FOR SALE: MP '06 Yosemite 8x3.0 24/240GB SSD RAID 0, 240GB SSD, 1.5TB HDD RAID 0, 1TB HDD, Blu-Ray±RW, Radeon HD 5770
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I'm curious...does that fit in the newest Apple laptops? I was under the impression that they used an unusually slim optical drive.
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Sell or send me your vintage Mac things if you don't want them.
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This is awesome. I'll have to think about adding this. It does say it works with all aluminum unibody units.
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iMac Late '15 5K 27" 4.0 Quad i7 24/512GB SSD OWC ThunderDock 2 Blu-Ray ±RW MBP '14 Retina 15" 2.6 16/1TB iPhone 7+ 128 Jet Black iPad Pro 128 + Cellular
FOR SALE: MP '06 Yosemite 8x3.0 24/240GB SSD RAID 0, 240GB SSD, 1.5TB HDD RAID 0, 1TB HDD, Blu-Ray±RW, Radeon HD 5770
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Moderator Join Date: Jan 2001
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Originally Posted by shifuimam 
I'm curious...does that fit in the newest Apple laptops? I was under the impression that they used an unusually slim optical drive.
The specific one I linked to is for unibody MBP. There is another model for non-unibody.
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I did this on my MBP. I bought the drive and enclouse from OptiBay and installed it myself. I put my DVD drive in an external enclosure. It has been running great, and it is awesome to have 1TB @ 7200rpm in a laptop. I am still getting about 5 -6 hours when on battery as well.
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Last edited by David2213; Nov 3, 2009 at 01:55 PM.
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2.2 i7 MacBook Pro 8GB Ram 1TB HD
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i installed the optibay solution in a first gen unibody macbook pro 15".
it was really easy to do myself, i got a free plastic housing for the dvd-player.
after performing a small hack on dvdplayer app this works like a charm.
i installed a 7200rpm 500gig drive. i am not very happy with my battery-life, but i am unsure if this is related.
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