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replace optical drive with HDD or SSD

Original poster

Just wanted some reassurance, but it is possible to switch out the optical drive with either a HDD or SSD like in the macbook pro models?

Yes.
Use "optibay" as search terms to find dozens of threads about this.

Original poster

Thank you for the quick response!

I'd go ssd

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