i like how it goes in and out of focus so much like a music video - that way it keeps the instructional video from being boring or useful and keeps it fresh with blurring effects and the added bonus of loud music in the background
Great post! Totally relevant and helpful. i have spent the last week researching a hard drive swap out and you guys just laid it out . Thanks and keep up the solid posts.
thanks for this! i'm going to research and try this. i literally have no idea about anything computers, but you've made this feasible. really really appreciate this.
Added a Seagate Backup Plus to the optical drive bay. The drive was formatted and worked great via USB. When installing the drive in the optical bay, everything fit perfectly! PROBLEM is, the drive doesn't show up when running disk utility. Mid-2010 MBP, Yosemite. How do I get the drive to be recognized? What do you guys recommend?
Well some advice on this: First of all check which type of sata connection your MBP has. Models before 2011 can't go near the transfer rates of new ssd's and may very well even cause kernel panic. Then it makes far more sense to replace your existing hdd with the ssd, for there you have the faster sata controller, and then put your old hdd where the optical drive was. Also for safety: Remove your battery before touching your mainboard. I had to find out about this the hard way.
Great tutorial! I have a question on it. After you add an SSD drive will this be the default local drive from then on?Also how does the macbook now see the original sata drive? Is it like an external drive? thanks
I'm not seeing the issue here. The SDD kit comes with an external enclosure for the optical drive. Which you keep stashed in a bag for when you need it -which even for DJs will be rarely.
Good vid. When replacing with a regular or solid state drive is there a problem of overheating - if SSD's are at risk? I know there's another fan there.
Quite a long time since this has been posted, but...will this swap work with the first gen. unibody 15" Macbook Pro? My optical drive is shot so it would be worth the swap. Additionally, is it possible after doing this swap to switch out the original non-solid-state drive for a SSD as well? Thanks!
Does it breach your warranty if you put the Optical Drive back before you take it to the apple store. I was thinking of keeping one MAC OSX on the HDD 750GB (Clean-no installs) and one MAC OSX on the SSD (Use every day) 120GB SSD not big enough so would also store files like music and videos on the HDD. What does the side of the macbook pro look like where the optical bay is. what can you see from there. Is the slot closed?
I bought my mac used and did not get the OS disks. I am about to upgrade to Mountain Lion, is there a way to make a boot disc or USB boot drive so I could do this without spending the extra $40 for a Snow Leopard disk?
hey, i'm planing to do this but, what should i do to my internal supderdrive? can i use it as external use with usb, if so ii would really love it if you can't make the video of it
@ThePaulSIN This was from wikipedia for some reason I can't post the link but if you look up sold state drives it will show you. Good pay off at first but then it slows right down. Seen it first hand.
For DJs, which widely use CDs, I think the removal of the optical drive is kind of a bummer. Why not get a cheap (empty) 2.5" external enclosure, put the SSD in and clone the hard drive on it, then get the hard drive out and put the SSD in the laptop (and the HDD into the enclosure)? That way you keep your internal CD drive ready to use on the road and have a handy external hard drive for backups. ;) Of course the SSD would have to be large enough then, but they're getting cheaper every day.
This is bad idea Making a comparison between SSDs and ordinary (spinning) HDDs is difficult. Traditional HDD benchmarks are focused on finding the performance aspects where they are weak, such as rotational latency time and seek time. As SSDs do not spin, or seek, they may show huge superiority in such tests. However, SSDs have challenges with mixed reads and writes, and their performance may degrade over time.
You don't know what your talking about. SSDs use the same S-ATA connection type that all other HDDs and optical drive do. Any of these can be replaced by any of these, and 9 times out of 10, they can be replaced with each other MUCH easier on a Windows or Linux machine "brah."
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i like how it goes in and out of focus so much like a music video - that way it keeps the instructional video from being boring or useful and keeps it fresh with blurring effects and the added bonus of loud music in the background
Great post! Totally relevant and helpful. i have spent the last week researching a hard drive swap out and you guys just laid it out . Thanks and keep up the solid posts.
thanks for this! i'm going to research and try this. i literally have no idea about anything computers, but you've made this feasible. really really appreciate this.
This is ancient wizardry.
Added a Seagate Backup Plus to the optical drive bay. The drive was formatted and worked great via USB. When installing the drive in the optical bay, everything fit perfectly! PROBLEM is, the drive doesn't show up when running disk utility. Mid-2010 MBP, Yosemite. How do I get the drive to be recognized? What do you guys recommend?
Well some advice on this: First of all check which type of sata connection your MBP has. Models before 2011 can't go near the transfer rates of new ssd's and may very well even cause kernel panic.
Then it makes far more sense to replace your existing hdd with the ssd, for there you have the faster sata controller, and then put your old hdd where the optical drive was.
Also for safety: Remove your battery before touching your mainboard. I had to find out about this the hard way.
Great tutorial! I have a question on it. After you add an SSD drive will this be the default local drive from then on?Also how does the macbook now see the original sata drive? Is it like an external drive?
thanks
Great! I wonder is it possible to use disk you have added to install linux?
I'm not seeing the issue here. The SDD kit comes with an external enclosure for the optical drive. Which you keep stashed in a bag for when you need it -which even for DJs will be rarely.
What about my crates will they be copied to the SSD as well?
what model macbook pro is the one getting the drive replaced?
Good vid. When replacing with a regular or solid state drive is there a problem of overheating - if SSD's are at risk? I know there's another fan there.
Is this the same situation for the newer Macbook Pros?
Quite a long time since this has been posted, but...will this swap work with the first gen. unibody 15" Macbook Pro? My optical drive is shot so it would be worth the swap. Additionally, is it possible after doing this swap to switch out the original non-solid-state drive for a SSD as well? Thanks!
Does it breach your warranty if you put the Optical Drive back before you take it to the apple store. I was thinking of keeping one MAC OSX on the HDD 750GB (Clean-no installs) and one MAC OSX on the SSD (Use every day) 120GB SSD not big enough so would also store files like music and videos on the HDD.
What does the side of the macbook pro look like where the optical bay is. what can you see from there. Is the slot closed?
I bought my mac used and did not get the OS disks. I am about to upgrade to Mountain Lion, is there a way to make a boot disc or USB boot drive so I could do this without spending the extra $40 for a Snow Leopard disk?
Can that be done with Time capsule? Does Time capsule backup the music as well?
What remix of 'take over control' is in this video??????
what is the name of soundtrack music in 3.33?
well, excellent background music!
sorry if my question is silly but, do the Apple stores offer this kind of service?
hey, i'm planing to do this but, what should i do to my internal supderdrive? can i use it as external use with usb, if so ii would really love it if you can't make the video of it
You can by using SATA Optical Drive to USB cable and plug it into the USB port in your computer.
would this void the warranty
Is this the unibody macbook pro?
can you replace a regular macbook with a SSD drive
@ThePaulSIN This was from wikipedia for some reason I can't post the link but if you look up sold state drives it will show you. Good pay off at first but then it slows right down. Seen it first hand.
I love the Afrojack record! Dutch DJs FTW!
what macbook pro is it?
that is a cool table
@5:40 Cloning your OS drive 🔥🙌🏾😎
i wish you had included a link to where you bought the parts
Trevor Austin djtechtools.com/2011/03/28/super-power-your-laptop-with-a-ssd-double-swap/
nice music bro!!
1:35 WOOOOW the power of SSD
lol @ that hand positioned on his back
He looks like Porter Robinson lol
this will void the guarantee right?
what about 13 inch mac book pro?
@TaureanRuler yes!
@mariozonk ok thanks for that. Very informative. thank-you. No wait......I can't say this enough....but....thanks! You so kind!
dude how did you get it to run 40 programs at once!!!
Is that a 7200rpm or 5400rpm HDD?
@TaureanRuler - yes
For DJs, which widely use CDs, I think the removal of the optical drive is kind of a bummer. Why not get a cheap (empty) 2.5" external enclosure, put the SSD in and clone the hard drive on it, then get the hard drive out and put the SSD in the laptop (and the HDD into the enclosure)?
That way you keep your internal CD drive ready to use on the road and have a handy external hard drive for backups. ;)
Of course the SSD would have to be large enough then, but they're getting cheaper every day.
This voids warranty I think so be careful. Amzing results, just know what your doing!
@noengcio of course haha
@cr4ftr Adam F Remix.
Is that J Espinosa's bro? lol
@sio5RCA I staded replacing your optical drive with an SSD. No shit you can replace a regular hard drive with an SSD.
it's the afrojack remix
1:37 if my macbook did that, there might be an explosion
@cr4ftr afrojack extended
We should all wear polka dots
@cr4ftr
Take Over Control(Adam F remix)
Just imagine what kind of computer the IT guy has... :O
actually you can get a mac with a solid state from apple. this is just for if you got yours without one and would like to have one now.
@cr4ftr Pretty sure afrojack
@jonnye07 No
@cr4ftr Adam f remix
dude SSD drive are sooooo fucking expensive right now there is no point to get it now cuz the price will go to $1 a GB soon
bueller...bueller...bueller...
This is bad idea
Making a comparison between SSDs and ordinary (spinning) HDDs is difficult. Traditional HDD benchmarks are focused on finding the performance aspects where they are weak, such as rotational latency time and seek time. As SSDs do not spin, or seek, they may show huge superiority in such tests. However, SSDs have challenges with mixed reads and writes, and their performance may degrade over time.
You don't know what your talking about. SSDs use the same S-ATA connection type that all other HDDs and optical drive do. Any of these can be replaced by any of these, and 9 times out of 10, they can be replaced with each other MUCH easier on a Windows or Linux machine "brah."
@TaureanRuler ya u can man go M A C S A L E S dot COM
Well, terrible background music.
So noisy
@TheWindows982 you're just jealous because you can't afford one.
too much eff
Is this the unibody macbook pro?