Thank you...I haven't noticed any major weight reduction. But it was all done for better performance, I don't think anything can beat MacBook Air's weight.
I am already using Windows 10 on my mac via bootcamp, can I add a second SSD using this enclosure, and install Windows on this newly addes second ssd and boot it from this straight away? Thanks
Unplugging the battery would really only be an issue if disconnecting system operating components. The sata sockets and power rail connecting through peripheral devices are still going to need to flash through a regular boot cycle anyway, and on a side note, even with no battery connected, there is always potential with mac book laptops that static electricity will ground through the chassis even if you are bare foot touching a surface. I replaced my main drive with an additional battery and and my main drive is in the superdrive bay.
How did you do that? I can't find any guides on the internet to replace the main drive with a battery and have the main drive sit on the CD bay. It's an interesting idea.
I agree, it’s good practice but in my case since I’m going to do a project for my customer, I’ll be replacing the battery in addition to the other things on this computer
I did the same to my MacBook, but now TH-cam videos are choppy. Sound still works, but video is all messed up. Would the optical drive have something to do with it?
Thanks ! Very helpful. I want to do this and then run my OS from this SSD card, using my existing hard drive as additional storage. Do you have a video explaining how to transfer the OS from the original HD to this SSD configuration? Thank you in advance!
I think you can just "clone" the HD to the SSD one using Disk Utility. I saw that on this video: th-cam.com/video/bMHnAxvMCNQ/w-d-xo.html Hope this helps :)
Many thanks! The DVD drive in my ageing MacBook Pro died many years ago and the option of replacing this with an SSD sounds great. I already have a couple of spare SSD drives and, since seeing your video, I have ordered a 'caddy' from eBay - which I found for less than a fiver!
Very nice video. A wonderful guide indeed. I have done the same procedure with my macbook pro except that I have used OWC Data Doubler Caddy and I have put a 1TB Seagate SSHD into it while the other drive I have used is an OWC 240GB SSD. I have never seen a macbook pro run so fast. It boots up in 7 sec and shuts down in 3 sec. The functioning is also very fast. I am using my SSD for Mac OS X Yosemite and all the apps and the 1TB SSHD for all my data.
Thanks alot for the video it really helpfull . im just done with my MBP Mid 2012 using 9.5mm caddy size. but it not fitted well on the right side, was around 5mm opened and i can see the red and blue light once i turn on my Mac. actually what is the actual size for my Mac?
Hey I really enjoy the video! I have a Macbook Pro mid 2012. I just want to replace my optical drive with SSD and keep my old HDD on its place. 1. Will it effect a better performance to my Mac? 2. Should I clone my OS to the new SSD or is there any particular way to do it? Thanks!
Thank you for the video. It is very useful. I used similar caddy like yours. 9.5mm one and does not have 2 screw holes on the caddy's body (to secure firmly to the laptop's body). I wonder if there's a negative impact after the replacement on yours ? Keep posting more useful videos.
Hello Sir, Hope your install is successful, Please share the current config of your MBP, I'd like to connect with you and know more! I'm looking to upgrade my MBP too!!
A few questions... 1) Other than formatting the SSD you inserted into the Optical Bay drive at 6:30, are there any other steps required to make both drives operate for maximum performance? That is, does the computer automatically use both hard drives, or does it need to be told to do so? 2)I'v heard of another MacBook Pro user, making one drive store and run the OS and applications and the other for files or whatever. Is there a way to do this, and what situations would it be better? Thanks!!
It will automatically recognise the drives, the one with the OS will always load the OS and the second will need formatting and you can set RAID if you want . the second question, that's what i did, use the second for storage
@@GadgetsBoy i did everything as in this tutorial for my macbook pro 13” 2012 late, but somehow when i wanted to erase newly added 512gb patriot ssd, i got error “Erase process failed. Click done to continue”. I want to use this ssd for storage only, the main drive is 128gb and is working fine
Hi! Thanks so much for the help! I have a Mac Book Pro md101 mid 2012. I have taken out my cd drive and installed a HDD caddy and put in a samsung evo solid state drive. I have formatted the drive and it is showing up as a storage option. My problem is that my current standard HDD is 1TB (and it's almost full) and my SSD is 500GB so I would like to move just the operating system and the apps onto the SSD (to make my mac a lot faster) and leave all the rest on the 1TB. How do I go about this without loosing the path files to things like iTunes playlists etc. any help would be greatly appreciated!!
I think the biggest issue is the size difference. You could clone ssd perfectly if its the same size or bigger than the HDD. You would have to resize the HDD to be the same number of GB as the SSD, using Disk Utility. If its too full to resize, look into backing up your files manually to free up space, then doing the cloning procedure.
Little word of advice if I may. Set up the camera opposite side of your head, that way you're less likely to obscure our view with your hands, like in 4:42. Or set it up someplace else. Just saying. What we see is equally as important as what you say. Good work, and thank you.
I currently am running with a 1tb crucial bx500 if I'm not mistaken. Not sure if it supports anything bigger than that. But for such an old machine, I think that's plenty. Also installed debian, with KDE plasma. Much snapied than Mac os 10.15.7 (on mbp a1278).
Hey I wanted to know, if I replace my optical drive with an SSD will I be able to backup both drives with Time Machine? Would I need to do a partition on the TM drive and perform 2 separate backups?
Great video. I have a question. I want to replace optical drive of my Macbook Pro 2012 15" with SSD. So what size of case do i need? is it 9.5mm you are using?
José Nadesan did you figure this out? I did this years ago. But you want to do it a little different. You want to take the old HDD and put it where the optical drive sits and install the new SSD where the old HDD was. This maximizes you’re performance since the connectors where the original HDD where are capable of transferring higher speeds than the optical drive connectors. Make sense? I then installed my OS / applications to boot from the SSD (keeping the files off of it, just OS and applications) with my large files of music, movies, and photos, etc still on the 750GB HDD, and you have to tell the system to pull from that drive for applications on the SSD to access their content. Easy to do. This gives you the best performance while still getting to use your old HDD for large file stores. Your SSD will be what boots the OS and applications and then the data within applications will reside on the likely much larger HDD you have already. Cheap and maximum efficiency for an awesome upgrade. My MacBook boots extremely fast and applications open within seconds. To get the most efficiency you’ll want two SSD’s but that is obviously very costly and they aren’t as recommenwddd for large files stores with many read write changes so that’s while I keep files on the HDD. That HDD still has to spin up for the instantly loading application to offer you the files for access but it’s much much faster since the SSD is controlling the applications / OS performance. I hope that all made sense.
Thank you. Does this cradle fit the 2011 MacBook pro, too? It's time to dump the optical and have a drive to boot Linux from (main drive already has OS X and Windows on it).
Awesome video , my optical reader seems dead otherwise, my beast is till working and I love it. What's the biggest SSD I could use for this that will still work ? Like, would a 1 TB SSD work for this ?
This is a reply to many commenters who think that is a good idea to take off the battery before this operation: No, do not touch the battery! You don't need to put out the battery for this simple task. Lithium-ion batteries-like the one inside this MacBook - can literally explode! If it is broken and you really need to replace it then you should always make sure the battery is fully drained before removing it.
Great video but I used a cheap caddy like the one in the video and my copy speeds are hella slow. Should I buy the OWC data doubler. Will it fix my slow speeds.
First, thank you very much for you explanation. Second, I have question, when I replace the optical drive to ssd how can i make this ssd as primary by and installing OSx system on it and keep the old hdd as extra storage?????? Please, help me out
i replaced my optical drive and all was working well. The 2011 Macbook pro wen back to Apple store for a new mother board due to warranty/recall on the graphic card. Now it does not recognize the drive. I have checked all contacts and all seems in order. Any suggestions. Disc utilities does not see it. I also have data on the drive I do not want to lose. I can take the drive out and use a usb cable to mount the drive, but I still want to get this working as it is intended inside the computer.
Hello. Nice video. Thinking about doing this to mine. Dumb question, but would this decrease the weight a bit of the MacBook itself if I do this? Thank you.
Hi, I'm thinking about replacing the optical drive in my macbook pro 13" from mid 2012 and using that for my main boot disc, but still keeping the 750gb HDD as additional storage, to do this would i clone my HDD onto the SDD, and then once replaced boot onto the SDD by holding alt on startup, and then wiping my HDD using disk utility? Many thanks in advance.
I have the late 2011 macbook pro, will the Bipra SSD caddy work for my mac? I believe I have ATA connectors though so I'll need to get a SATA adapter cable.
Hi, probably a stupid question but I have a standard mac pro 13" 2012 so can I keep the original HDD and keep it in the same place then replace the "CD" (optical) drive with the SDD and boot from that to increase boot times but store main bulk data on HDD?
hi great video! i have a question i just replaced my hard drive with a ssd but before i did that i cloned what i had in my hd to the ssd thinking im not going to need my hd anymore. now i want to have both drives and replace the cd drive but do i have to erase what i cloned in one of the drives??.
After removing the optical drive, does it change in the weight of the Mac now? And I can just use the current HDD 2.5 originally from my macbook mid 2012 with the caddy as a additional Storage.
thanks, very nice video. I just got a new SSD internal hard drive for my MacBook pro mid 2010 and also got a Doubler Caddy (which is pretty much look like yours in this video) to replace the CD drive with my old HD drive. The SSD replacement went well but to place the HD drive into the Doubler Caddy the latter has some extra connection part which stays out when I place the HD. What I mean is this: when I place the HD drive, it sits well there but there is an extra part (like extra connection port which need some extra connection form the HD to match there) there is nothing from the HD drive to be there. Anyway, I followed your instruction but the HDD drive does not appear in my mac anymore. Any help with that? thx
Great great video! Thanks a lot! My question is this: I already have an SSD in my MacBook Pro 15" 2011 and now I want to replace the optical drive with a regular hdd to upgrade my storage space. Is that possible, too? All the tutorials are about replacing the optical drive with an SSD
Odd question, I'm planning on buyinga 500gb SSD, to replace my current main HDD. Do you know if it would be possible to put the HDD into the caddy and boot it from there, and put the SSD in where the HDD was? The plan is to install El Capitan on the SSD. and still have Snow Leopard on the HDD (in caddy). Also, would the caddy affect the speed at which it reads and write to the HDD?
Does this mod make your Macbook any lighter by chance? Just curious. Looking to either upgrade from HDD to SSHD or possibly replace the optical drive on my Mid 2012 13"
Hi, Thanks for sharing this with us. I have a quick question: If I install a 512GB SSD (instead of 120GB) as a second SSD to my existing 512GB SSD, is it possible to configure these two drives as a single RAID 0 partition so that I can have my OS on this super fast drive and take care of entire backup with some external 1TB backup drive (via Time Machine for example)?
Hi. I wanted to know if I don't want to replace the optical drive can I just take it off and leave it as is or do I need to put something in place of it?
So I'm thinking about keeping my 500GB hard drive, but adding a 250GB SSD by removing the optical drive. So my question is are you able to then specify what work goes to each drive? I would love things like the initial boot, safari and a music recording program I use (Logic Pro X) to use the SSD so they load faster, but I wasn't sure if that's something I would be able to easily differentiate between the two drives. Sorry, I'm just learning about all this stuff. Thanks!
For everything to load faster, you would need to install it onto the actual SSD. Basically wiping the whole Mac and installing the OS onto the SSD not the HDD. You'd need to do this for each program so the actual directory of the program files are on the SSD.
Hey there, just came across this video. If I'm going to be adding an SSD inplace of the optical drive to use as my main Mac OS drive, and then wipe the harddrive already in there to use windows, would the SSD need to be placed in the firsts hard drive spot, or would it work in the optical position?
I think I want to change out both harddrive to a SSD and optical drive to a SSD, should I do them both at the same time, or would you recomend one before the other?
Yo, awesome video! A few things though... can I replace the optical drive with an SSD, and make it the primary drive for booting? I'd really like to keep my HDD, and since I haven't used a CD or DVD in the past 2 years, I can't imagine myself regretting not having it... Also, if you remove your optical drive, Apple warranty doesn't apply anymore... Thanks again!
HI, thanks for the video. I was installing on my MBP13 mid'12, the HDD fit perfectly, but 2 screws protrude about 1/8" where antennas/subwofer should lay flat, so lid didn't close flush. The screws are tight all the way, but it still comes out. Any suggestions? Thanks again for the video, very helpful
Hi, I was wondering if you could use this in a single SSD installation and use the "cd drive" SSD as a boot drive? I'm wanting to take some excess weight out of my mac and my usecase doesn't really call for two SSDs.
Hi Thanks for the vid. followed your video and installation was successful. till last night says HD in optical bay caddy was disconnected. any ideas what may happened?
Hey mate, thanks for the informative video. I was wondering if it is better to replace the existing HDD with the new SSD and then put the HDD in the caddy so the Macbook will be more smoother booting from the main drive? Or any order does not matter?
I plan to put two OS on two ssd. Mac on one drive and W10 on the new drive after replace the dvd. Are the two drives bootable with the key Option ? Can I install W10 on the new one? Can I have FAT on the second partition? Thank you.
Thank you for the Video. I have been willing to go for that. Your video helped me. My Question here: Would this allow me using 2 SSD one for OS X and one for Windows 8 ? or I still need to use in this case the BootCamp to have 2 OS running on one machine ?
Great video. I followed all your steps but couldn't get the secondary SSD to work.I'm on a 2012 MacBook Pro (non-retina). I just installed a SATA III SSD from Amazon (since several users had commented that it did work on their 2012 MBPs). However, the MacBook Pro will not format the it. Tried to format as "Journaled" as well as "Journaled/Encrypted" and neither work. After doing more internet research I found comments that mention only a SATA II will work on a 2012 MBP. Is this true???
I like the background music, what is it? (Of course the optical drive change is also good.)
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+esdras silva Damn dude you're lucky. I used this music on one of my apps before and I found this one in that project. here's the link /watch?v=zJvhDfYU_LU
Hey, man - very helpful video! Well done! Just one question: I have my operating system on the drive that my MBP late 2010 came with. How could I move the OS to the new SSD along with some more applications? Is there any way, or should I install from the beginning?
I installed a second SSD in my early 2011 MBP. This boot one is an 860 evo working perfectly. The other installed instead of the optical drive is a “crucial” one. The crucial is extremely slow and often gives read/write errors. After trying every kind of repair, permissions, etc, one post I read stated that the SATA cable is not fast enough to read and write data, specifically on large files , thus the errors. But since it worked for you, am I missing something?
its probably the shitty crucial drive. i had one and it gave me a whole lotta trouble and since i replaced it with an 850 eve (older version of the 860) I've had no problems at all. crucial makes shitty drives
I still have the 17'' MacBook Pro 2009 later model. Can this be done too as I want to replace the HD drive with a ssd drive and replace the cd DVD drive with a secondary ssd drive. Would like to have two 500 gigs in.
My Mac slowed down, if I replace the storage drive I have with a solid state drive will it pick back up? The main drive is solid state but the one that has the most space is the one that spins
Question GadgetsBoy, i have a late 2010 macbook pro 7,1. I just removed my HDD and installed a 1T Samsung SSD :) Now I want to replace the optical drive just because I don't use CD's or DVDs and I would like the extra storage. I plan on getting a 750 GB WD Hard drive for about $80 as my second drive. When I replaced my HDD for the Samsung SSD, I used USB to SATA adapter and then used carbon copy cloner. After I replaced the drive, SSD Samsung had everything I had on my mac (documents, apps...etc) plus 700 extra GB. MY question is, do I have to do the same with second drive? use the USB To SATA and carbon copy cloner? or just replace the Optical Dirve and install the HDD and nothing else. I hope my question makes sense. Do i use the carbon copy cloner process again like I did the first time? And if so, do I hold "option" eveytime I start my computer and choose between my SSD Samsung and HDD WD?
Nice video! I have a question. I'm trying to put a SSD in my MBP Mid 2010 and also keep the original HDD. what's the best way to do this? a) place SDD in the optic drive and leave HDD where it is b) move HDD to optic drive and place SDD in the main bay I want to use SSD for OS and HDD for storage. I'll appreciate your help. thanks!
+jackel142 Hi, I would say, replace your HDD with SSD and move your HDD to your optical drive. You can install OS on SSD and then use your HDD as storage for all your media files
Thanks for the video, it helped me a lot. I have a question, If I set my ssd as the primary storage of my macbook pro and I set the original internal HDD as second storage. Can I "shut down" the HDD? I mean, choose to turn it on or off without removing it from the macbook pro? (like an external HDD that can be removed) If it is possible, can I expect a better battery life?
Well, if you configure it properly, you can have your laptop booting off the maid ssd and the second just for the sake of fast file transfer and read/write
Is it possible to install the additional ssd first with the caddy then transfer my old files from the hdd to the new ssd and make my additional ssd to be my main hard drive and set the old one as storage?
I dont have the connector or bracket, I had best buy remove the cd drive and they didn't give me anything back. Am I able to purchase those parts anywhere?
I just reinstalled a new ssd for my main hard drive, but when I launch into Mac OS, my 2nd hard drive is showing up as removable disc now? It was fine when I launched recovery mode to install the main hard drive, can’t seem to find anything online explaining why?
Hey mate - great video. I'm new to this so I have a few questions. 1) does this process apply to an early 2011 MBP? 2) I'm keeping the original drive but replacing the optical with a Samsung 850 EVO. I'm wanting to transfer the OS to run on the new SSD rather than the old spinning drive. What's the process to do that?
+Timothy Doecke (Synth Explorer) hey, yes it does. I'd advice that you clone you drive and set your default boot drive to the SSD. or swap them around after cloning so the SSD is automatically selected.
+GadgetsBoy Can you explain what you mean by cloning? Wouldn't it be easier to just do what you did in the video and use the restore tool and select the the SSD and then erase the HDD after the instal or will it show 2 boot selections.
+Raymond El-khoury You can do what you suggested, but as the SDD is faster/more efficient than the HDD I think GadgetsBoy is suggesting putting the SDD in the place of the HDD (making it the primary storage) and putting the HDD in place of the optic drive. As a safety measure it makes sense to transfer everything to the SDD before you attempt this so you have 2 disks with all your information in case something happens to one. Once you have it in you can delete the stuff off the drive you don't want to house it. I've just replaced the HDD with an SDD and what I did was buy a USB to HDD connector and I put El Capitan on my SDD before I put it in my machine, so as soon as I swapped I was good to go!
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Thank you...I haven't noticed any major weight reduction. But it was all done for better performance, I don't think anything can beat MacBook Air's weight.
I am already using Windows 10 on my mac via bootcamp, can I add a second SSD using this enclosure, and install Windows on this newly addes second ssd and boot it from this straight away? Thanks
I'd recommend removing the battery first.
Rob Giordano Yes, I'd recommend removing the battery first, it's still connected to the motherboard and something might happen there
Unplugging the battery would really only be an issue if disconnecting system operating components. The sata sockets and power rail connecting through peripheral devices are still going to need to flash through a regular boot cycle anyway, and on a side note, even with no battery connected, there is always potential with mac book laptops that static electricity will ground through the chassis even if you are bare foot touching a surface. I replaced my main drive with an additional battery and and my main drive is in the superdrive bay.
How did you do that? I can't find any guides on the internet to replace the main drive with a battery and have the main drive sit on the CD bay. It's an interesting idea.
I agree, it’s good practice but in my case since I’m going to do a project for my customer, I’ll be replacing the battery in addition to the other things on this computer
Thanks for the great video - it's 2020 and I just swapped out the SSD in my Optical drive thanks to you! MBP mid 2011 STILL going strong!!
Yay, glad it was helpful. Really old video haha
@@GadgetsBoy It was SUPER helpful cos I got a REALLY old mac! I crammed 16GB of ram into it too! LOL
I’m about to do the same. Do you have any tips before I do ?
I did the same to my MacBook, but now TH-cam videos are choppy. Sound still works, but video is all messed up. Would the optical drive have something to do with it?
Were you able to upgrade your OS to the latest?
What pentalobe tool you used in 2:02 - 2:17 with the black tip? I’m trying to replace my optical drive with an ssd.
Thanks ! Very helpful. I want to do this and then run my OS from this SSD card, using my existing hard drive as additional storage. Do you have a video explaining how to transfer the OS from the original HD to this SSD configuration? Thank you in advance!
Hi Steve, you did that?? Im in the same thing right now
I think you can just "clone" the HD to the SSD one using Disk Utility. I saw that on this video: th-cam.com/video/bMHnAxvMCNQ/w-d-xo.html
Hope this helps :)
Many thanks! The DVD drive in my ageing MacBook Pro died many years ago and the option of replacing this with an SSD sounds great. I already have a couple of spare SSD drives and, since seeing your video, I have ordered a 'caddy' from eBay - which I found for less than a fiver!
Thanks for the tutorial! Out of curiosity, what is that rubber grip on the bottom of your Mac? Do you have a link to where you purchased it?
Both aimed at different purposes. if you are on the move then MBP if not get iMac. bare in mind the MBP can serve both purposes
Thanks dude, thanks for watching as always
Very nice video. A wonderful guide indeed. I have done the same procedure with my macbook pro except that I have used OWC Data Doubler Caddy and I have put a 1TB Seagate SSHD into it while the other drive I have used is an OWC 240GB SSD. I have never seen a macbook pro run so fast. It boots up in 7 sec and shuts down in 3 sec. The functioning is also very fast.
I am using my SSD for Mac OS X Yosemite and all the apps and the 1TB SSHD for all my data.
Exactly what I want to do! How did you separate the OS and Apps onto the SSD?
What I suggest is reinstalling the OS onto the ssd like I did then just transfering you documents folder etc onto the sshd.
Sorry for 2 years late ;P
Yes, how? Yolo
I'm planning on doing this because of the boot sound the optical drive makes, and the extra storage would be a plus!
Thanks for that. It took me forever to get around to doing it after buying the dock and having seen how easy it was I wish I'd done it sooner!
Thanks alot for the video it really helpfull . im just done with my MBP Mid 2012 using 9.5mm caddy size. but it not fitted well on the right side, was around 5mm opened and i can see the red and blue light once i turn on my Mac. actually what is the actual size for my Mac?
Hey I really enjoy the video!
I have a Macbook Pro mid 2012. I just want to replace my optical drive with SSD and keep my old HDD on its place.
1. Will it effect a better performance to my Mac?
2. Should I clone my OS to the new SSD or is there any particular way to do it?
Thanks!
Clear instructions. Very useful. Is there a way, to re-use the removed optical drive externally using a caddy or something?
Thanks :)....i think you can buy a usb connector for it, have a look on ebay or amazon
For $15 you can order one on EBay
Thank you for the video. It is very useful. I used similar caddy like yours. 9.5mm one and does not have 2 screw holes on the caddy's body (to secure firmly to the laptop's body). I wonder if there's a negative impact after the replacement on yours ?
Keep posting more useful videos.
Hello Sir,
Hope your install is successful, Please share the current config of your MBP, I'd like to connect with you and know more! I'm looking to upgrade my MBP too!!
Or just reply with ur Instagram/Fb ID!
@@AdarshX23 Hey, Buddy. Battery draining faster.
100% would, it has longevity, style, performance and holds value for a long period of time.
A few questions...
1) Other than formatting the SSD you inserted into the Optical Bay drive at 6:30, are there any other steps required to make both drives operate for maximum performance? That is, does the computer automatically use both hard drives, or does it need to be told to do so?
2)I'v heard of another MacBook Pro user, making one drive store and run the OS and applications and the other for files or whatever. Is there a way to do this, and what situations would it be better? Thanks!!
It will automatically recognise the drives, the one with the OS will always load the OS and the second will need formatting and you can set RAID if you want . the second question, that's what i did, use the second for storage
@@GadgetsBoy i did everything as in this tutorial for my macbook pro 13” 2012 late, but somehow when i wanted to erase newly added 512gb patriot ssd, i got error “Erase process failed. Click done to continue”. I want to use this ssd for storage only, the main drive is 128gb and is working fine
Thank You ever so much. Very helpful indeed. Look forward to upgrading a very slow macbook pro. Loving the carbon vinyl too.
Great! Can you tell will this new SSD be visible in disk selection menu when you reboot the machine and hold Option key?
Hi! Thanks so much for the help! I have a Mac Book Pro md101 mid 2012. I have taken out my cd drive and installed a HDD caddy and put in a samsung evo solid state drive. I have formatted the drive and it is showing up as a storage option. My problem is that my current standard HDD is 1TB (and it's almost full) and my SSD is 500GB so I would like to move just the operating system and the apps onto the SSD (to make my mac a lot faster) and leave all the rest on the 1TB. How do I go about this without loosing the path files to things like iTunes playlists etc. any help would be greatly appreciated!!
I think the biggest issue is the size difference. You could clone ssd perfectly if its the same size or bigger than the HDD. You would have to resize the HDD to be the same number of GB as the SSD, using Disk Utility. If its too full to resize, look into backing up your files manually to free up space, then doing the cloning procedure.
Thanks for the video, Just did it on my 2012 MBP took the shrink wrap off the caddy hope that's not an issue, Happy spring!
Little word of advice if I may. Set up the camera opposite side of your head, that way you're less likely to obscure our view with your hands, like in 4:42. Or set it up someplace else. Just saying. What we see is equally as important as what you say. Good work, and thank you.
Cool thanks! What is the largest SSD you can upgrade to on this model MacBook?
I currently am running with a 1tb crucial bx500 if I'm not mistaken. Not sure if it supports anything bigger than that. But for such an old machine, I think that's plenty. Also installed debian, with KDE plasma. Much snapied than Mac os 10.15.7 (on mbp a1278).
Hey man,
The cable you remove at around 1:55, I accidentally ripped. Is there a way I can fix this? I'd appreciate any help. Thanks!
What are you using on bottom of macbook pro? this red cover. How i can find it? what name? Thanks!
Would love to know this too!
I'm guessing it's a dbrand skin. You can find them here dbrand.com/shop/macbook-pro-retina-13
Could you then use the optical drive as an external optical drive placed into a shell?
TripleAceAAA you can still use the drive just get a sata to usb cable and u can still play cd
hey mate. thank you very much for the video. i've now added a second ssd, but I can't find it in my diskutility. any suggestions?
have you found a solution? I had the same problem
@@sha17223 same!
Hey I wanted to know, if I replace my optical drive with an SSD will I be able to backup both drives with Time Machine? Would I need to do a partition on the TM drive and perform 2 separate backups?
Quick question, is the optical bay link speed only 3Gb/s? I heard its slower than the main bay which is 6Gb/s. Thanks!
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Great video. I have a question. I want to replace optical drive of my Macbook Pro 2012 15" with SSD. So what size of case do i need? is it 9.5mm you are using?
Nice! Do I need to backup anything if only replace memory optical for a SSD? I have a SSD as my HD.
Thanks!
Same question I want to know.
Think of upgrading my HD (mac mid 2012) for 1TB HD, but what specs I need to buy the right HD for Mac mid 2012?
hi - if you want to use the SSD as a startup disk do I have to do anything in the system.
Hey GB
I want to replace my super drive with a ssd and run my os from it whilst still keeping the old hd.
How would I go about doing this?
I would also like to know a smooth approach to this (if any)
José Nadesan did you figure this out? I did this years ago. But you want to do it a little different. You want to take the old HDD and put it where the optical drive sits and install the new SSD where the old HDD was. This maximizes you’re performance since the connectors where the original HDD where are capable of transferring higher speeds than the optical drive connectors. Make sense? I then installed my OS / applications to boot from the SSD (keeping the files off of it, just OS and applications) with my large files of music, movies, and photos, etc still on the 750GB HDD, and you have to tell the system to pull from that drive for applications on the SSD to access their content. Easy to do. This gives you the best performance while still getting to use your old HDD for large file stores. Your SSD will be what boots the OS and applications and then the data within applications will reside on the likely much larger HDD you have already. Cheap and maximum efficiency for an awesome upgrade. My MacBook boots extremely fast and applications open within seconds. To get the most efficiency you’ll want two SSD’s but that is obviously very costly and they aren’t as recommenwddd for large files stores with many read write changes so that’s while I keep files on the HDD. That HDD still has to spin up for the instantly loading application to offer you the files for access but it’s much much faster since the SSD is controlling the applications / OS performance. I hope that all made sense.
Thank you.
Does this cradle fit the 2011 MacBook pro, too?
It's time to dump the optical and have a drive to boot Linux from (main drive already has OS X and Windows on it).
Great video! Just did it to mine. Can I ask where you got the red bottom for the case from? Product link would be amazing! Cheers!
Awesome video , my optical reader seems dead otherwise, my beast is till working and I love it. What's the biggest SSD I could use for this that will still work ? Like, would a 1 TB SSD work for this ?
Nice work! Does it also make the macbook lighter?
This is a reply to many commenters who think that is a good idea to take off the battery before this operation: No, do not touch the battery! You don't need to put out the battery for this simple task. Lithium-ion batteries-like the one inside this MacBook - can literally explode! If it is broken and you really need to replace it then you should always make sure the battery is fully drained before removing it.
Great video but I used a cheap caddy like the one in the video and my copy speeds are hella slow. Should I buy the OWC data doubler. Will it fix my slow speeds.
First, thank you very much for you explanation. Second, I have question, when I replace the optical drive to ssd how can i make this ssd as primary by and installing OSx system on it and keep the old hdd as extra storage?????? Please, help me out
Install the OS Via Bootable usb drive
Awesome video, and just what I needed to get me through this task.
VERY HELPFUL TUTORIAL MATE.I'M GOING TO ADD A SSD DRIVE TO MY 15" MACBOOK PRO 2011.SSD MAKES THE DIFFERENCE
i replaced my optical drive and all was working well. The 2011 Macbook pro wen back to Apple store for a new mother board due to warranty/recall on the graphic card. Now it does not recognize the drive. I have checked all contacts and all seems in order. Any suggestions. Disc utilities does not see it. I also have data on the drive I do not want to lose. I can take the drive out and use a usb cable to mount the drive, but I still want to get this working as it is intended inside the computer.
Hello. Nice video. Thinking about doing this to mine. Dumb question, but would this decrease the weight a bit of the MacBook itself if I do this? Thank you.
Hi, yes it reduces the weight but ever so slightly
Hi, I'm thinking about replacing the optical drive in my macbook pro 13" from mid 2012 and using that for my main boot disc, but still keeping the 750gb HDD as additional storage, to do this would i clone my HDD onto the SDD, and then once replaced boot onto the SDD by holding alt on startup, and then wiping my HDD using disk utility? Many thanks in advance.
I have the late 2011 macbook pro, will the Bipra SSD caddy work for my mac? I believe I have ATA connectors though so I'll need to get a SATA adapter cable.
Hi, probably a stupid question but I have a standard mac pro 13" 2012 so can I keep the original HDD and keep it in the same place then replace the "CD" (optical) drive with the SDD and boot from that to increase boot times but store main bulk data on HDD?
yes, ssd for the speed, and hdd for data
Yes, look for a guide that helps you with cloning disk drives, something like this eshop.macsales.com/guides/Cloning-Your-Data-to-a-New-Hard-Drive
hi great video! i have a question i just replaced my hard drive with a ssd but before i did that i cloned what i had in my hd to the ssd thinking im not going to need my hd anymore. now i want to have both drives and replace the cd drive but do i have to erase what i cloned in one of the drives??.
After removing the optical drive, does it change in the weight of the Mac now? And I can just use the current HDD 2.5 originally from my macbook mid 2012 with the caddy as a additional
Storage.
Thanks for this !
Would I be able to purchase 2TB Samsung 860EVO for this ?
And would it make my computer super fast?
thanks, very nice video. I just got a new SSD internal hard drive for my MacBook pro mid 2010 and also got a Doubler Caddy (which is pretty much look like yours in this video) to replace the CD drive with my old HD drive. The SSD replacement went well but to place the HD drive into the Doubler Caddy the latter has some extra connection part which stays out when I place the HD. What I mean is this: when I place the HD drive, it sits well there but there is an extra part (like extra connection port which need some extra connection form the HD to match there) there is nothing from the HD drive to be there. Anyway, I followed your instruction but the HDD drive does not appear in my mac anymore. Any help with that? thx
is it possible to run the OSX from this setup with the SSD being in the DVD rom drive? or it needs to run from the main Hard drive cable?
Great tutorial, I was wondering if I can do this conversion on the MacBook a1181. Would appreciate a reply if you can, thanks 🙏
Great great video! Thanks a lot! My question is this: I already have an SSD in my MacBook Pro 15" 2011 and now I want to replace the optical drive with a regular hdd to upgrade my storage space. Is that possible, too? All the tutorials are about replacing the optical drive with an SSD
+2veto3 Hi, you can also replace it with a regular HDD, most people just talk about SSD as that's beast mode haha
Odd question, I'm planning on buyinga 500gb SSD, to replace my current main HDD. Do you know if it would be possible to put the HDD into the caddy and boot it from there, and put the SSD in where the HDD was?
The plan is to install El Capitan on the SSD. and still have Snow Leopard on the HDD (in caddy).
Also, would the caddy affect the speed at which it reads and write to the HDD?
Does this mod make your Macbook any lighter by chance? Just curious. Looking to either upgrade from HDD to SSHD or possibly replace the optical drive on my Mid 2012 13"
It does reduce the weight but ever so slightly. It is not massively noticeable.
thanks and what,s red cover name?😊
Hi, Thanks for sharing this with us.
I have a quick question: If I install a 512GB SSD (instead of 120GB) as a second SSD to my existing 512GB SSD, is it possible to configure these two drives as a single RAID 0 partition so that I can have my OS on this super fast drive and take care of entire backup with some external 1TB backup drive (via Time Machine for example)?
Hi. I wanted to know if I don't want to replace the optical drive can I just take it off and leave it as is or do I need to put something in place of it?
So is this just a separate memory unit? Do they work in conjunction with each other? Or is it just more memory inside your mac?
So I'm thinking about keeping my 500GB hard drive, but adding a 250GB SSD by removing the optical drive.
So my question is are you able to then specify what work goes to each drive? I would love things like the initial boot, safari and a music recording program I use (Logic Pro X) to use the SSD so they load faster, but I wasn't sure if that's something I would be able to easily differentiate between the two drives.
Sorry, I'm just learning about all this stuff. Thanks!
For everything to load faster, you would need to install it onto the actual SSD. Basically wiping the whole Mac and installing the OS onto the SSD not the HDD. You'd need to do this for each program so the actual directory of the program files are on the SSD.
Very helpful, thanks!!
Hey there, just came across this video. If I'm going to be adding an SSD inplace of the optical drive to use as my main Mac OS drive, and then wipe the harddrive already in there to use windows, would the SSD need to be placed in the firsts hard drive spot, or would it work in the optical position?
+DAFTpanduh it should work fine i the optical position.
I think I want to change out both harddrive to a SSD and optical drive to a SSD, should I do them both at the same time, or would you recomend one before the other?
What's the speed of the tray-installed SSD? I read that the superdrive bus is an old sata 2 (on macbook pro mid-2012)
***** I confirm, on a mid2012 the superdrive port is sata3 and this thing is even faster than the apple ssd.
Yo, awesome video! A few things though... can I replace the optical drive with an SSD, and make it the primary drive for booting? I'd really like to keep my HDD, and since I haven't used a CD or DVD in the past 2 years, I can't imagine myself regretting not having it... Also, if you remove your optical drive, Apple warranty doesn't apply anymore...
Thanks again!
Take your HDD and put it in the optical bay and put your brand new SSD in the primary drive slot....
HI, thanks for the video. I was installing on my MBP13 mid'12, the HDD fit perfectly, but 2 screws protrude about 1/8" where antennas/subwofer should lay flat, so lid didn't close flush. The screws are tight all the way, but it still comes out. Any suggestions? Thanks again for the video, very helpful
Hey after replacing it how can we activate this drive and from were hdd drive
Hi, I was wondering if you could use this in a single SSD installation and use the "cd drive" SSD as a boot drive? I'm wanting to take some excess weight out of my mac and my usecase doesn't really call for two SSDs.
Yeah you can.
Hi Thanks for the vid. followed your video and installation was successful. till last night says HD in optical bay caddy was disconnected. any ideas what may happened?
Hello. Is that ssd slot 12-7 millimetres or 9 -5 mm?
I have macpro 2012 also
Thanks in advance
Hey dude good video!!
Can you say me what is the model of this MacBook on vid? It is A1278?
Hey mate, thanks for the informative video. I was wondering if it is better to replace the existing HDD with the new SSD and then put the HDD in the caddy so the Macbook will be more smoother booting from the main drive? Or any order does not matter?
+mi hao chua I think it does matter and, yes, it's better to have the SDD in the existing HDD slot.
I plan to put two OS on two ssd. Mac on one drive and W10 on the new drive after replace the dvd. Are the two drives bootable with the key Option ? Can I install W10 on the new one? Can I have FAT on the second partition? Thank you.
can someone tell me what is the song/music that is playing at 5:20? so peaceful.
Thank you for the Video. I have been willing to go for that. Your video helped me.
My Question here: Would this allow me using 2 SSD one for OS X and one for Windows 8 ? or I still need to use in this case the BootCamp to have 2 OS running on one machine ?
Bashar Najjar I haven't tried, but I think you can install different OS on them each.
Great video. I followed all your steps but couldn't get the secondary SSD to work.I'm on a 2012 MacBook Pro (non-retina). I just installed a SATA III SSD from Amazon (since several users had commented that it did work on their 2012 MBPs). However, the MacBook Pro will not format the it. Tried to format as "Journaled" as well as "Journaled/Encrypted" and neither work. After doing more internet research I found comments that mention only a SATA II will work on a 2012 MBP. Is this true???
I like the background music, what is it? (Of course the optical drive change is also good.)
+esdras silva Damn dude you're lucky. I used this music on one of my apps before and I found this one in that project. here's the link /watch?v=zJvhDfYU_LU
It sounds like the kind of music you would play when you're showing people how to build a bird house on public broadcast TV
Great Video. I know the Macbook Pro's weight is due to the optical drive. By replacing it with the SSD, does the weight decrease significantly?
I should imagine so:)
Hey, man - very helpful video! Well done! Just one question:
I have my operating system on the drive that my MBP late 2010 came with. How could I move the OS to the new SSD along with some more applications? Is there any way, or should I install from the beginning?
Make a backup and then install it on the new ssd
I installed a second SSD in my early 2011 MBP. This boot one is an 860 evo working perfectly. The other installed instead of the optical drive is a “crucial” one.
The crucial is extremely slow and often gives read/write errors. After trying every kind of repair, permissions, etc, one post I read stated that the SATA cable is not fast enough to read and write data, specifically on large files , thus the errors. But since it worked for you, am I missing something?
its probably the shitty crucial drive. i had one and it gave me a whole lotta trouble and since i replaced it with an 850 eve (older version of the 860) I've had no problems at all. crucial makes shitty drives
Do you recommend using 2 SDDs with MacOS Catalina? Is it stable? Do I need to disable the pcie graphics card? Thank you!
Is it possible to use the caddy drive as your main startup disk, and use the stock drive for backup only? Thanks, Blake
Hi yes you can.
GadgetsBoy does this make your computer start up faster? and how do we do that? do you have a video on it?
@@GadgetsBoy Please share the tutorials on software set up for this possibility. Thank you.
I still have the 17'' MacBook Pro 2009 later model.
Can this be done too as I want to replace the HD drive with a ssd drive and replace the cd DVD drive with a secondary ssd drive. Would like to have two 500 gigs in.
My Mac slowed down, if I replace the storage drive I have with a solid state drive will it pick back up?
The main drive is solid state but the one that has the most space is the one that spins
Question GadgetsBoy, i have a late 2010 macbook pro 7,1. I just removed my HDD and installed a 1T Samsung SSD :) Now I want to replace the optical drive just because I don't use CD's or DVDs and I would like the extra storage. I plan on getting a 750 GB WD Hard drive for about $80 as my second drive. When I replaced my HDD for the Samsung SSD, I used USB to SATA adapter and then used carbon copy cloner. After I replaced the drive, SSD Samsung had everything I had on my mac (documents, apps...etc) plus 700 extra GB. MY question is, do I have to do the same with second drive? use the USB To SATA and carbon copy cloner? or just replace the Optical Dirve and install the HDD and nothing else. I hope my question makes sense. Do i use the carbon copy cloner process again like I did the first time? And if so, do I hold "option" eveytime I start my computer and choose between my SSD Samsung and HDD WD?
Nice video! I have a question. I'm trying to put a SSD in my MBP Mid 2010 and also keep the original HDD. what's the best way to do this?
a) place SDD in the optic drive and leave HDD where it is
b) move HDD to optic drive and place SDD in the main bay
I want to use SSD for OS and HDD for storage. I'll appreciate your help. thanks!
+jackel142 Hi, I would say, replace your HDD with SSD and move your HDD to your optical drive. You can install OS on SSD and then use your HDD as storage for all your media files
Thank you GadgetsBoy, got one question, if I installed the second drive, can i setup to boot os from the second drive?
Yes you can
Am I able to do this if I haven’t replaced the main original hard drive, and then install my OS onto the new ssd I’ve just installed?
Thanks for the video, it helped me a lot. I have a question, If I set my ssd as the primary storage of my macbook pro and I set the original internal HDD as second storage. Can I "shut down" the HDD? I mean, choose to turn it on or off without removing it from the macbook pro? (like an external HDD that can be removed)
If it is possible, can I expect a better battery life?
It is possible. Go to Applicatiosns>Utilities>Disk Utility and unmount your HDD. If you want to have access to it, just mount it again.
Cheers
Thanks a lot !
What is the benefit of adding an SSD to the CD ROM beside memory space? Let me know and thank you for the video it was awesome.
Well, if you configure it properly, you can have your laptop booting off the maid ssd and the second just for the sake of fast file transfer and read/write
With an ssd optical drive with a main ssd (replacing the hdd) will it boost the performance? Or no?
What size should it be the Caddy? 9,5 or 12mm
Is it possible to install the additional ssd first with the caddy then transfer my old files from the hdd to the new ssd and make my additional ssd to be my main hard drive and set the old one as storage?
I dont have the connector or bracket, I had best buy remove the cd drive and they didn't give me anything back. Am I able to purchase those parts anywhere?
I'm actually surprised to see that it's possible to use any caddy for this and I don't actually need one SPESHUL for MacBooks
Considering that the superdrive is a slot type and not a tray type drive.
hey I have a question but, its not related to the video! If you don't mind, could you tell the name of the watch you are wearing?? Thanks!
it is the cogito smart watch
I just reinstalled a new ssd for my main hard drive, but when I launch into Mac OS, my 2nd hard drive is showing up as removable disc now? It was fine when I launched recovery mode to install the main hard drive, can’t seem to find anything online explaining why?
Will that caddy work for any other laptops
Hey mate - great video. I'm new to this so I have a few questions.
1) does this process apply to an early 2011 MBP?
2) I'm keeping the original drive but replacing the optical with a Samsung 850 EVO. I'm wanting to transfer the OS to run on the new SSD rather than the old spinning drive. What's the process to do that?
+Timothy Doecke (Synth Explorer) hey, yes it does. I'd advice that you clone you drive and set your default boot drive to the SSD. or swap them around after cloning so the SSD is automatically selected.
+GadgetsBoy Can you explain what you mean by cloning? Wouldn't it be easier to just do what you did in the video and use the restore tool and select the the SSD and then erase the HDD after the instal or will it show 2 boot selections.
+Raymond El-khoury
You can do what you suggested, but as the SDD is faster/more efficient than the HDD I think GadgetsBoy is suggesting putting the SDD in the place of the HDD (making it the primary storage) and putting the HDD in place of the optic drive.
As a safety measure it makes sense to transfer everything to the SDD before you attempt this so you have 2 disks with all your information in case something happens to one.
Once you have it in you can delete the stuff off the drive you don't want to house it.
I've just replaced the HDD with an SDD and what I did was buy a USB to HDD connector and I put El Capitan on my SDD before I put it in my machine, so as soon as I swapped I was good to go!