I recently received a late 2011 17" MBP at work. I consider myself lucky but I still miss SSD performance. I would like to swap in an SSD as the primary drive and since I never use the Superdrive, I am thinking that I would want to buy a superdrive to hard drive caddy and add my SSD to the 750GB HDD.
Are there any special considerations I need to think about? I remember reading on this board a few years back that, while the superdrive SATA connection is configurable as the default boot drive, it is for some reason suboptimal to put your primary drive from that sata connection and that people who want to achieve my SSD+HDD setup are best off placing the SSD where the HDD normally is and placing the HDD where the Superdrive normally goes. Is there any truth to this? What does it mean?
The z-height of my included 750GB HDD should be 9.5mm or smaller, right? That is the max on the superdrive to hard drive caddy and I believe I've read that all included Apple laptop drives have been 9.5mm or smaller z-height, but I would want to be sure.
Are there any special considerations I need to think about? I remember reading on this board a few years back that, while the superdrive SATA connection is configurable as the default boot drive, it is for some reason suboptimal to put your primary drive from that sata connection and that people who want to achieve my SSD+HDD setup are best off placing the SSD where the HDD normally is and placing the HDD where the Superdrive normally goes. Is there any truth to this? What does it mean?
The z-height of my included 750GB HDD should be 9.5mm or smaller, right? That is the max on the superdrive to hard drive caddy and I believe I've read that all included Apple laptop drives have been 9.5mm or smaller z-height, but I would want to be sure.