Adding a SSD onto my MBP

[striderrftn]

I'm currently using a 2011 model 13" MBP with the basic configuration.

Now I'm thinking of adding a second drive (a SSD) on this machine and get rid of the optical drive which I hardly use.

Can anyone please advise me how to make the SSD my startup disk with the OS (Lion), and the original HDD a pure storage drive?

Currently I have everything stored in this HDD.

Thanks in advance.

 

[awer25]

Make a backup in TM, install SSD and HDD, and install OSX to SSD. Move home folder to HDD. Migrate old TM data back.

 

[striderrftn]

Make a backup in TM, install SSD and HDD, and install OSX to SSD. Move home folder to HDD. Migrate old TM data back.

Do I migrate back to the HDD or SSD?

 

[idonotliketostu]

Make a backup in TM, install SSD and HDD, and install OSX to SSD. Move home folder to HDD. Migrate old TM data back.

Faster way:
install new ssd. Boot off the lion recovery disk. Use disk utilities to restore your current partition onto the new ssd.

 

[awer25]

Do I migrate back to the HDD or SSD?

Faster way:
install new ssd. Boot off the lion recovery disk. Use disk utilities to restore your current partition onto the new ssd.

That's the problem - if you simply restore, it will see there isn't enough room on the SSD for everything and give an error (assuming that since you need a dual-drive setup, your total data is more than just the SSD). Moving the home folder will make personal data go to the HDD and programs go to the SSD.