hi there,
So I was planning on installing an ssd and an extra harddrive in my late 2008 unibody mbp. After reading numerous of threads I learned the following:
1) the WD scorpio blue 1tb will only fit in the harddrive bay.
2) the harddrive bay has a sudden motion sensor, the optical bay hasen't. An ssd doesn't need it.
This leads me to the conclusion that the safest way is to put the ssd in the the optical bay and the hd in the hd bay.
problem: hibernation. I've searched and searched and searched...
proposed solutions:
a) put the ssd in the harddrive bay. I will not be doing that , reasons I just explained.
b) one forum member said his hibernation widget worked. The only reason I want hibernation is incase my battery dies and I didn't save all of my files I was working on. If this ever happens it will probably be because I forgot to turn of my mbp and left so, I won't be around to click the widget.
c) One user had the ssd in the optical bay and used it as the boot partition. He used a terminal command to use the regular hd in the harddrive bay as the hibernation disk. The hibernation file is supposed to be on the boot drive, which is the ssd in the optical bay.
Why? I don't know, I just read that multiple times but nobody ever mentioned why?
So my question to you: do you think option C is a viable solution? Is it to big of a risk for data loss? Or is there another solution using terminal commands?
So I was planning on installing an ssd and an extra harddrive in my late 2008 unibody mbp. After reading numerous of threads I learned the following:
1) the WD scorpio blue 1tb will only fit in the harddrive bay.
2) the harddrive bay has a sudden motion sensor, the optical bay hasen't. An ssd doesn't need it.
This leads me to the conclusion that the safest way is to put the ssd in the the optical bay and the hd in the hd bay.
problem: hibernation. I've searched and searched and searched...
proposed solutions:
a) put the ssd in the harddrive bay. I will not be doing that , reasons I just explained.
b) one forum member said his hibernation widget worked. The only reason I want hibernation is incase my battery dies and I didn't save all of my files I was working on. If this ever happens it will probably be because I forgot to turn of my mbp and left so, I won't be around to click the widget.
c) One user had the ssd in the optical bay and used it as the boot partition. He used a terminal command to use the regular hd in the harddrive bay as the hibernation disk. The hibernation file is supposed to be on the boot drive, which is the ssd in the optical bay.
Why? I don't know, I just read that multiple times but nobody ever mentioned why?
So my question to you: do you think option C is a viable solution? Is it to big of a risk for data loss? Or is there another solution using terminal commands?