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Help with removing optical drive
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No need for the all caps. Some see that as the equivalent of shouting.
What you describe is possible with the right hardware but you need to make a full backup first. Setting up any kind of Raid with an existing drive will erase the contents.
Also make sure you back up any data stored in the virtual machine.
What you describe is possible with the right hardware but you need to make a full backup first. Setting up any kind of Raid with an existing drive will erase the contents.
Also make sure you back up any data stored in the virtual machine.
Apologies
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Thank you. Apologies for the appearance of shouting. When you say hardware, what exactly are you speaking of?
You need a caddy to put in place of the optical drive. You need a good clone on a drive separate of the 2 SSD's you're going to raid. I would use a .10 installer to setup the raid, then clone back your OS to the 9,2. .13 and beyond do not support raid booting but it will work if you clone it. SU will not work you have to clone after every update. The speed bump is quite impressive tho. Be careful with a R0 they can cost you data if your drive dips out.
Thank you. I have the mid-2012 9,1 model 15". I will be using CCC for cloning purposes. What is SU? I have the correct caddy. You mentioned a .10 installer, what is that?
you have not mention which MacOsx you'll be using for this Raid0 setup, High Sierra Raid0 (HFS+ formatted) will be the easiest.If your choose either Mojave Raid0 APFS and Catalina Raid0 APFS is a different animal, i believe since Macosx 10.13 apple remove to boot from Raid setup, so create GPT partition, make your Raid0 volume thru terminal commands, install catalina , rename your bootcaches otherwise boot loop will occur, Ive use migration assistant restore my programs and settings, this method works for me as Catalina Raid0 APFS with my 2012 Macbook Pro. Good luck.
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I would not "RAID" any drives inside a MacBook.
Let two drives exist "as two separate drives".
Far fewer problems if things ever go wrong (but they'll NEVER "go wrong", right...?)
Go to ifixit.com, and you can see how to access and remove the internal DVD drive...
Let two drives exist "as two separate drives".
Far fewer problems if things ever go wrong (but they'll NEVER "go wrong", right...?)
Go to ifixit.com, and you can see how to access and remove the internal DVD drive...
I am running MacOs Catalina 10.15.4 and I performed the optical drive SSD install, all went well. Now which drive would be better to boot from? I raided the drives in all 3 categories of raiding on my MacBook and noticed in all 3 my Parallels VM would not run. I want those speeds and my VM. Is this just a dream???? I am now back to the drives being independent?
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