[How To] Replace Optical Drive With HDD / SSD MacBook Pro 2012 - Caddy Installation
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- Опубликовано: 8 июл 2012
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So you really wanted to buy the Retina MacBook, but didn't have the extra cash to spend right? Well thanks to this tutorial you can now mod your MacBook Pro and remove the optical drive to be just like the Retina Model...
Today we are going over replacing your MacBook's optical drive with a Hard Drive or SSD. You will need a special Caddy to perform this installation. The process is rather simple but please follow the instructions and read the warning below...
WARNING: This is not a repair or procedure Apple stands behind. Though it's completely reversible, it will void Apple Care. Should you damage anything in the process it will also void Apple Care, SO BE CAREFUL! I highly recommend putting your optical drive back in before taking your MacBook to an Apple Store for different problems or other maintenance. Out of sight, out of mind.
This tutorial is provided for educational and instructional purposes. Macmixing.com cannot be held responsible for any damage you may incur from this process. Proceed at your own risk. This is not recommended for beginners or people unfamiliar with the internal components of a MacBook.
That being said, the whole operation is really easy. Unscrew some stuff, remove a couple cables, and your set to go. Be very careful when handling the cables and components inside your MacBook.
Happy modding! 
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Dom, a great vid… I’ve watched a few prior to yours, yours explained it the best.
Top stuff fella
Too good. Thank you for the lovely short and detailed tutorial. I've got all my spares ready and I'm just about to upgrade :)
Very clear explanation. I'll swap mine very soon and will let you know how it went. Thank you .
Thanks a ton DOM!! i was watching your 5 years old video!! awesome!
Nice description, exactly what I needed.
best ssd replacement video i have ever seen... this helped me alot thnx... :) keep up the good work
Thank you for making this. It really helped replacing the dvd player in my Macbook Pro Late 15" 2011 with a HDD.
Followed your instruction pretty closely, great help! Got 4 extra screws, but all seem tight and most importantly, all is working! :)
Great tutorial Dom thanks for sharing with us.
Good video! I have a 13inch 2012 MBP. It was easy to figure out how to adjust the process for this particular model. Thanks!
Helped me a lot. Subscribed. Thanks!!!
Great video and description! Thanks!
thanks you, its nice to see helpful people in the youtube comments
Nice Tutorial, helped me out!
Thanks a million for this great review.
best guide ever! thanks a lot
Thank you so much. Very clear steps
Super bien explicado. Very well explained. Gracias. Thank you.
Genial, muy instructivo, seguiré tus pasos!
Saludos desde Argentina
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Great! Very instructive! I will follow Your Steps.
Greetings from Argentina!
Nice tutorial. Thanks.
after watching this vid, i have been inspired to upgrade further... just went and ordered a caddy! which also comes with an external housing for the optical drive... just less than 24 hours ago i upgraded my original HDD to a samsung 1TB SSD... i cant stop now!!! just a shame the CPU cant be upgraded on a macbook.
Thanks for the great tutorial! One question, is there an external housing I can buy for the removed optical drive to make it like Apple's USB SuperDrive?
Incredible well made video! Question: how can I make my MBP to boot from the SSD? is it recommended?
Well explained, thank you
Easily the best vid on this procedure. Magnetic friggin' screwdrivers?!? Why are you the only one saying this??
Thanks for the great video. One comment: there are two screws that, when putting them BACK in, are very easy to over-tighten; when you try to get them out again, they can become stripped. These are the two black screws that are on the thin, 1" x 4" black rail, near the top-left corner of the laptop, that largely traps the optical drive in place. (It runs parallel with the longer side of the laptop, and it has a triangle-shaped carveout in it.)
When putting those screws back in, BE GENTLE!!
Great Video....very informative and detailed. I am going to install an SSD in place of my optical. But my question to you is...I have a lot of files/programs on my current HDD that are very important to me. If I put my current drive in the optical bay caddy (with the SSD in the place of the current). Is that recommended, or if I plan to use my current HDD I should just leave it there? Thanks!
Great video! Thanks!
Very Helpful Thank you!
Great Video! this is something i have been looking into doing for quite some time now, only concern i have is not knowing how to have the OS boot up from SSD as well as the applications, but yet have other files like music and pictures etc saved on regular HHD, i know in the previous video you just cloned one hard drive to another, can you please elaborate a little more. thanks!
Yeah man this is what i'm looking for .. thank you so much
like + sub + all this stuff
Really great tutorial....
I am looking for speed and storage. Bought an SSD for the speed. Backing up info tonight. I'll try to see how it reacts with the SSD in the hard drive slot and the original HDD in the optical bay
Really thanks for making this informative video! But I still have a couple of questions:
1. For the HDD to be installed, can I use a 7200rpm one instead of 5400rpm? (as I am concerning whether it can provide enough power through the optical drive cable)
2. If I replace the optical drive with a SSD, would the read/write speed be capped at some value?
3. Is it possible for me to format this drive as exFAT format so that it would allow me to read and write the drive under both mac and window mode?
very useful thanks
Really helpful - but i've heard you can have problems with static? How are these avoided if you don;t have access to one of those grounding wrist bands?
Very2 usefull , thanks for your video
hey man, could you do a tutorial on how to setup the hard drive into a fusion drive like setup, or raid 0, if thats possible? thanks
Hi,
I've just finished the installation. The disk was running continuously whether I was using or not thus the battery life would be drop by 40% or worse. However, I checked the disk utility and it allows you to mount/unmounth the disk anytime you like.
nice explained
Can you make a video on using the optical drive externally!
what are the pros and cons of doing this?
Great video, thanks.
Question: Are there any performance penalties using a SSD drive in the optic bay compared to the HD bay if I wanted the SSD drive as my primary. Does it matter which bay the SSD drive is in?
What about a 17' late 2011? Same instructions? Same caddy?
thanks macmixing! i am getting ready to purchase a new 13 pro. Like the SSD install, while migrating the existing hdd to optical drive with caddy. Think I got the hardware stuff thanks to your video....Question becomes the best way to load the mountain lion onto the SSD, while wiping it off the HDD that's in the optical drive. Can you give some advice?
I was mainly curious if the efi would think it’s an optical disk or if it recognizes it as a hard drive
With this setup, would you then recommend converting the two drives into a fusion drive??
cool vid! if i used the hdd from my macbookpro and did the optibay mod would, i have to erase everything on the hdd? or could i just pop it in
Is it possible to replace the cover on the cd drive slot? the one that helps keep dust and small debris from getting in? mine is kinda messed up already and its almost wide open.
Hi great tutorial, does it affects battery life using an SSD as my primary drive and an HHD as a second drive?
Thanks for the video. It helped a lot. I have 1 question though, after I replaced my Optical Drive with the HDD, my computer recognises it but it won't show up under "Devices" and my computer seems to be hotter than it was when I only had the SSD in. What can I do to see my HDD under "Devices" in the Finder?
Thank you very much!
hi, thanks for the video.
is it possible to replace my hdd with my new ssd,
and then use the hdd to replace the optical drive?
thanks again
Finaly did it and with great succes. Im loving it! Only thing i was scared about is the fact that i had to do this on a 13" mbp 2012 instead of al the 15" vids i saw on youtube. I was shaking like hell when trying to remove the plastic cable holder on top of the superdrive. I didnt put the top left screw on the optibay :p i didnt want to mess anything up. (i did check if the optibay wasn't wiggling so it's good) :D great "how to"!!
Well you just made an Amazon commission off me. I just bought both of those products. Thanks for the tips!
does it drains the battery faster than before?
Yes it will. As long at the form factor is the standard 2.5 inch. Sata I, II, & III cables are exactly the same, and surprisingly sata I cables don't hinder sata III performance. Simply put, yes it will fit fine.
I've a question, now every time i move stuff into the second HD it ask me for authentication.. how do i remove it?
aaaand? when i back up now, it backs up everything (ssd and hd) or only the ssd?
Thank you very much for your explanation. I have question, next days l will replace the optical drive to ssd So, how can i make this ssd as primary with operator ??then how can i keep the old hdd as extra storage without operator?????? Please, help me out
if I replace just my optical drive with a SSD can I use that as my OS startup disk and also run my applications from it.
Great, but can you have it unmounted at boot time and mount it while computer is on? How would you do that? command line I guess?
Hey im confused.....i want to know that is it necessary to remove the original hdd in mac or can i just leave it and replace the optical drive with another hdd....plz help!
great stuff
you're the best.. thanks a lot
Is it possible to use the removed optical drive and fit that into an enclosure so it can be used via usb connection when needed? If so can you recommend a reliable enclosure, thanks.
does the vid apple for the late 2011 macbook pro...if so what would you recommend doing? use a caddy and move the hard drive into the optical drive bay and insert the ssd into the hard drive bay? or what
really great idea
can i use 3.5" hard drive on the caddy will it fit mbp 2012
Replacing optical drive to hard drive caddy seems a little more complicated than I thought it would be. Worries me slightly thinking I could mess up the battery connector!
Would it be very similar with MBP 13" Early 2011?
Nice! Thanks!!
Hey will any caddy tray work or do I have to get one that is specifically for the macbook pro uni body.
can i use this on a pc too? cuz the pc laptop ones i found are too big for my laptop
i think i'm going to risk it. thanks for the informative video
can you do this with the 2010 model???
Can the second hard drive be encrypted? And does it backup with Time Machine?
If you have an SSD set up as your primary hard drive then use an HDD in the optical bay slot but save applications onto the HDD will you still get the quick opening and processing speeds as if you saved them on the SDD?
Asking for advice on upgrading my Macbook Pro mid 2012
So I recently started using my gf macbook and using both mac and windows 10, i love the fact that I can use both, tbh I don't want to upgrade it and keep it if i cant use Bootcamp on it.
Here's what I want to do:
I want to install a 1tb sdd on the main disk, and then put the old disk instead of the optical reader with a caddy, and install 16gb of RAM, then install Mojave from an usb (im currently using El Capitan and I want the dark theme)
My questions are:
1. Can I install a bootcamp partition without any issues on the ssd?
2 . Can I format the old disk (with my current ios and bootcamp) to use it as a normal drive inside
3. Is it hard to install Mojave from an usb, from scratch?
4. Is it better to clone my existing drive to the ssd and then extend the disk partitions?
5. What kind of things I need to avoid in order to succeed?
6. Do I need to erase all my accounts so I dont get blocked from using the macbook from 0 (installing Mojave)
Thank you so much if you read all of this, hoping for some info
How do you chose which hard drive to boot from on start up? I will have the SSD + my old 500gb hard drive in the optibay (for bootcamp).
could u potentially put a second ssd in the optical drive bay caddy and configure both of them in RAID 0?
Hi! ***** do you know how to change the "eject" button function. I can't really use it after i've have replaced the optical drive with a SSD :)
Is it important to put the hdd in the caddy, or can i put the ssd in there without taking the HDD out ?
It seems the Optical Drive for the 13.3-inch MacBook Pro 2.9GHz Dual-core Intel i7 (June 2012 release) has a speaker obstructing one of the screws in your video, in addition to another ribbon connector near the HDD bay. Have you got an updated video on how to take out this particular optical drive? Thanks in advance for your response.
can you boot the operating system from this optical bay if I install an SSD ?
Can anyone suggest to me a good external optical drive enclosure? I have found a few but it sounds like every optical drive is different so there is now perfect fit. I have a mid 2011 Macbook Pro. Thanks!
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 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 until I got to the antenna part you have on minute 10.
Yeah you can see the screws sticking out, and he glosses over removing the screw when installing the drive (it magically disappears during an edit).
I have a Macbook Pro Late 2011 and I'm looking to do an upgrade like this but do you know if I do it myself will it void the Apple Care warrantee?
Thanks for the reply :) Regarding to point 1, as my friend has a MacBook Pro 2009 and he would like to replace the optical drive with a faster HDD (7200rpm), does the "newer MacBook" you've mentioned include the 2009 models? Is there any way we can check the power compatibility with HDD to be installed (like in point 2 we can check the System Profiler)?
awesome dude,,,,,,thanks!!!
I was wondering, does it add much weight to the MBP? If so, is it noticeable?
I just did this set up, i put a ssd as the main hard drive and used my old hdd as the secondary, but for some reason it still boots from the old hdd. I cloned it to the ssd and the ssd works fine. Every time i start it i have to hold alt so i can boot from my ssd, any advice?
hey great video would this work with a 2009 macbook pro 2.53ghz Intel Core 2 duo. 8gb ram ?
Is it possible to use 6Gb/s SSD in place of the of the optical drive without bottlenecks or significant errors on the 2012 ivy bridge MBP like yours?
Thanks a lot!
can you use the optical drive as an external optical drive after?
Do you have any good enclosure suggestions for the optical drive you just removed?
Will this work with the MacBook Pro 13 in June 2012, I clicked the amazon link and a few reviews stated it doesn't fit the 2012 MacBook's. Please answer and thank you.
can u use any hard drive?
does any hard drive fits on the caddy?
im have a mid 2012 mac, i used for music, im a dj. and i want to install the biggest or better saying a hard drive with the most capacity posible and available.
Processor 2.7 GHz Intel Core i7
Software OS X 10.9.5 (13F1077)
i already have a 500 GB Flash Storage.
I NEED THE BEST ADVISE PLEASE.
THANKS
Will the caddy work with a MacBook Pro 15" late 2011 model ?
Thanks
Quick question
would Sata 3 fit in the caddy?
Ive heard rumors that it doesnt but i just want to make sure
heres what i want to do take out the stock apple drive put a ssd in its place and put the hdd in the optical bay but i dont want to dual boot so would i need to wipe the HDD if so how. Also i would only put the new lion os on the ssd right. im just confused on what to do with the stock apple one that came with it I only need it for storage please help and keep up the great videos thanks
Is it possible to make like a backup drive from the replaced drive? Like one you can connect via USB?