Replacing optical drive on Macbook Pro with SSD ?

[Michael Totten]

I'm curious if anyone has experience with this?

I'd like to replace both the existing standard hard drive and optical drive with SSD's. The main SSD would contain OSX & applications. The other SSD would be scratch a drive. In terms of DVD / CD's for loading applications I'll just use an external DVD drive (I almost never use the optical drive, so I won't miss it ).

My question is: Has anyone here done this and what's been your experience.

 

[Christopher Barrett]

I've replaced the optical bays in my new Mac Pro with a couple OWC SSD's in Raid 0 and am getting 500 mb/sec sustained out of them... wicked fast. I went this route so I could use the regular 4 HD bays for a spinner raid. I do plan to upgrade my MBP to a dual SSD system. Can't decide if I would keep that separate volumes or Go Raid 0 with the OS on a partition.

Cheers,
CB

 

[Cail Young]

I know a colourist that used the Optibay (sounds like something Jacek would sell )

http://www.mcetech.com/optibay/

Works a charm.

 

[Fredrik Callinggard]

I use 2 SSD's in a RAID config. Very pleased with it (using softraid for it).

I got this http://www.maxupgrades.com/istore/index.cfm?fuseaction=Product.display&product_id=186

Very happy with it.

 

[Leif Thomas]

I replaced my DVD-drive on my Macbook Pro 15''with an chinese Optibay ripoff and an SSD.

Dualboot (OSX 10.6.5 and Win7-64) on an OCZ Vertex 2 120GB is freakin fast and enough to house Final Cut Suite and CS5 Suite on OSX and Win7.

An additional internal 500GB Samsung is more than enough for my data and a external DVD-USB-drive is as fast as the internal.

I'm really MORE than happy with this setup and most programs like Final Cut or Photoshop start in 3-4 seconds.

It's a good idea to keep the spinning hdd in the original place since it's shock absorbing.

 

[Jamie Metzger]

Sounds like a good plan. Having 1 SSD being your "system" drive and the other (probably larger) be your storage drive is a good call.

I would check over at www.arstechnica.com for some really professional SSD advice.