Removing Optical Drive from Macbook Pro 2009

Ashley0609 · Dec 8, 2012, 07:49 AM

Hello all,

I was just wandering if I could remove my MBP '09 optical drive? Or would I have to put something in it's place?

Cheers

gngan · Dec 8, 2012, 08:34 AM

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Originally Posted by Ashley0609

Hello all,

I was just wandering if I could remove my MBP '09 optical drive? Or would I have to put something in it's place?

Cheers

Of cause you can remove the optical drive. In fact, you can remove the motherboard too but you never state why you would want to remove the optical drive.

clyde2801 · Dec 8, 2012, 08:37 AM

Well, you could use an optibay and make a fusion drive with the SSD and the HDD.

Ashley0609 · 09:23 AM

Planning on having it in an enclosure for my Mac Mini and GFs MBA. Then swapping out the HDD for a small SSD to give me a (negligibly) lighter laptop for just word processing bits. So is it OK to just leave a gap where the optical drive should be?

gngan · Dec 8, 2012, 08:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Ashley0609

Planning on having it in an enclosure for my Mac Mini and GFs MBA. Then swapping out the HDD for a small SSD to give me a (negligibly) lighter laptop for just word processing bits. So is it OK to just leave a gap where the optical drive should be?

You won't feel much difference. I have a dual drive setup and when i remove the optical drive, it isn't that heavy. I think it should be alright to leave the gap.

Dadioh · Dec 8, 2012, 10:05 PM

Yes you can. I did this on 2 Macbooks that I use as media players and didn't need the DVD drives. The empty space doesn't affect anything. Just be prepared to remove the bottom if someone slides a DVD in there without knowing

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Ashley0609 macrumors newbie Join Date: Nov 2012	Removing Optical Drive from Macbook Pro 2009 Hello all, I was just wandering if I could remove my MBP '09 optical drive? Or would I have to put something in it's place? Cheers
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clyde2801 macrumors 601 Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: In the land of no hills and red dirt.	Well, you could use an optibay and make a fusion drive with the SSD and the HDD. __________________ I've found that the sanest question I can ask myself is 'Am I going crazy?' Crazy people never ask themselves that. --Jack Robbins late 2011 2.4 i7 17" MBP, 16 gb ram, Crucial M4 512gb SSD
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Ashley0609 Thread Starter macrumors newbie Join Date: Nov 2012	Planning on having it in an enclosure for my Mac Mini and GFs MBA. Then swapping out the HDD for a small SSD to give me a (negligibly) lighter laptop for just word processing bits. So is it OK to just leave a gap where the optical drive should be? Last edited by Ashley0609; Dec 8, 2012 at 09:23 AM.
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Dadioh macrumors 6502a Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Canada Eh?	Yes you can. I did this on 2 Macbooks that I use as media players and didn't need the DVD drives. The empty space doesn't affect anything. Just be prepared to remove the bottom if someone slides a DVD in there without knowing __________________ iMac 27" i7 2.8GHz 16GB-1333 180GB Intel 330 SSD
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