Just bought a Samsung 256 830 for my 2012 13" mbp and just need some advice.
I will be putting my 500gb Momentus XT Hybrid drive where the superdrive was.
I use my mbp for a lot of audio and video work, what would be the best way to set these up for this?
Hi!
There's a few things you can do to start with. First, you would need to acquire a hard drive caddy to fit into the area that your superdrive used to occupy. These are pretty cheap and can buy them from places like Amazon etc.
Then you would need to use a tool such as Carbon Copy Cloner to clone your existing drive onto the SSD. Or, alternatively, you can install a fresh copy of Mountain lion onto the SSD. The latter is probably your best bet.
With the old drive, once you have backed up your data, connect it to your mac using a Sata to USB caddy, and back up any data you have.
Then, format the drive using the HFS+ Extended file system. You can then partition this down depending on your usage for it. Personally, I partitioned 30Gb for the Photoshop Scratch Disk and Virtual Memory, as these can cause heavy write to your SSD, however it's not really that necessary.
Once the new hard drive is in place, fit it into your mac, and put the SSD into the space once occupied by your old drive.
depending on what you chose (to clone or not to clone) the next steps are to install Trim Enabler to enable TRIM on the OS, to move your home folder to the second hard drive and to check that your SSD is running on the 6Gbps link, rather than the 3Gbps link. Instructions for this can be found by using the search feature above. I did this and everything is grand!
Good luck!
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I noticed that there are kits available to turn your slot-loading Superdrive into a USB Superdrive online, I found one for about £14, just waiting for delivery. Could be useful if you ever get software that needs to be installed via CD.