How To Add Second A SSD to Replace Optical Drive MacBook Pro 2012
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- How To Add Second SSD to Replace Optical Drive MacBook Pro 2012
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Thank You ever so much. Very helpful indeed. Look forward to upgrading a very slow macbook pro. Loving the carbon vinyl too.
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?
Awesome video, and just what I needed to get me through this task.
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!
Hell yeah bro! Solid tutorial. Flawless victory. Brilliant.
Thanks dude, thanks for watching as always
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!
Hi, Good video, well constructed and easy to follow
Amazing, I followed and it worked perfectly. Thanks!
Thanks a lot, Man.
Great tutorial!
Brilliant video, it'll make the upcoming task very easy. Many thanks.
Thanks for the video man, nicely done.
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!
nice music and explained in well manner. thanks..will give it a try.
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.
Great! Can you tell will this new SSD be visible in disk selection menu when you reboot the machine and hold Option key?
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.
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!
Nice. Thanks man, great tutorial.
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?
Great how-to. Thanks!
Great video! Thanks! Very helpful!
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?
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?
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 RUclips 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?
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??.
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?
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?
hi - if you want to use the SSD as a startup disk do I have to do anything in the system.
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?
This is an excellent video, thank you :)
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.
Hey dude good video!!
Can you say me what is the model of this MacBook on vid? It is A1278?
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?
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
With an ssd optical drive with a main ssd (replacing the hdd) will it boost the performance? Or no?
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).
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
Is the optical bay link speed only 3Gb/s? I heard its slower than the main bay which is 6Gb/s.
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 ?
do you need to formate the hard drive first?
Nice work! Does it also make the macbook lighter?
Great tutorial, I was wondering if I can do this conversion on the MacBook a1181. Would appreciate a reply if you can, thanks 🙏
Can you do this on a late 2011 17 mbp?
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
Many thanks mate! Your video made the job easy!
+Buckhorrors Glad I could help :)
I'm planning on doing this because of the boot sound the optical drive makes, and the extra storage would be a plus!
would u recommend a macbook pro over an imac
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!
Hello. Is that ssd slot 12-7 millimetres or 9 -5 mm?
I have macpro 2012 also
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.
hello, may i ask is this fit to put in it hdd hard, becuse i bought ssd which i'll make it the main one and transfer the hdd in optical drive , is this okay ?
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?
Thank you so much!
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 video, thanks:)
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)?
Are these caddies universal? Or are they specific on the laptop model?
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
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?
Do you recommend using 2 SDDs with MacOS Catalina? Is it stable? Do I need to disable the pcie graphics card? Thank you!
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: ruclips.net/video/bMHnAxvMCNQ/видео.html
Hope this helps :)
Great job. That accent 🔥
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
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.
easy to follow. well explained. thanks.
Thank youv
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 have an extra ssd from a pc 2.5 SATA 6gb/s Opal2 How do i know if this is compatible with my early 2011 macbook pro 2.0 ghz i7
VERY HELPFUL TUTORIAL MATE.I'M GOING TO ADD A SSD DRIVE TO MY 15" MACBOOK PRO 2011.SSD MAKES THE DIFFERENCE
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 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.
Thanks for this !
Would I be able to purchase 2TB Samsung 860EVO for this ?
And would it make my computer super fast?
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?
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.
I was told you cannot partition an SSD in the optical drive bay. Is that correct? I also have the Mid 2012 13" Macbook Pro.
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
excellent video thanks for your help!
🙏🏾
Will this work with a MacBook Pro 2010 model?
I can install windows 10 in this secondary Ssd or Hdd instead make a partition in the primary disc Mac os sistem?
Your video was very helpful! Did it in a pinch! Thanks!!!
Paulo Montenegro Glad it was helpful :) thanks for watching
you're welcome!
can we run different versions of mac os on each of these hard disks?
Thanks bro 🔥🙌🏾😎💫
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?
Such wonderful music...
love the music :)
thanks a lot really its great video.👍
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?
Thank you … just did mine great video still current and usable for some of us :)
Amazing :)
did it just like you, formatted it the same way, but when i copy large files on the second ssd (I'm not using it as system drive, so I didn't clone it or anything) it ejects and it says eject before removing the disk and the disk isn't visible anymore. Samsung ssd 450 evo 125 gigs... any idea? the copying process stops at 3,1 gb of 5 gb (a folder with tv series...)
Hello! I did install both ssd and Hdd(witha caddy) and install the mac os in the ssd but I cant delete the mac os installed before in the hdd. How can i format the old hdd because the disk tool launch error
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.
What size should it be the Caddy? 9,5 or 12mm
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.
Hi, I have 1 tb hdd from my old Samsung, you think i can put it as a second hdd on my macpro 2012 9.2? Thanks in advance :)
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.
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?
Will that caddy work for any other laptops
i have a MBP 2012 as a spare whats the max ssd capacity on that ?i also wanna have 2 ssd on it
how about battery performance? Does the battery run out quickly?
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