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Macbook pro 15" 2x Sata3 ports?

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shakakaw

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Mar 30, 2013
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Hi.
Simple question really.

Does the macbook pro 15" mid2012-->now: have 2x sata3 accesspoints in it?

= Can i buy 2x. sata3 hdds. and put them in the computer while removing the old hdd that´s innit?

Thinking of buying 1x ssd and 1x 7200rpm hdd.


Just wanting to be sure on this before i buy.
// soon to be 1st time mac owner :D...
 
A second hard drive can be added to the SuperDrive bay. There are adapter kits to add a standard 2.5" drive in place of the disc drive. The interface is different physically but electrically SATA is SATA- the adapter takes care of the rest.

Whether it supports full 6GBPS SATA-III is something you would have to ask someone who has done this swap more recently than I. My last OptiBay'd machine was the 2010 model which came out while 3GPBS was the norm.
 
Does this mean that the macs from 2012 have 2x sata3 ports and that i won´t need to care for what hdd i go with? - meanin i could buy 1x ssd and 1x hdd7200 both goin with a sata3 connection?
 
Cuz, all i find on the net is people having problem connecting a sata3 to hdd they place in the the opticaldrives space.
 
I believe some people had problems with getting SATA3 speeds when using an SSD in the optical drive in 2011 MBPs.

This is not the case for post-2011 machines. Both the hard drive bay and optical drive have full SATA3 speed.
 
jmdMac said:
I believe some people had problems with getting SATA3 speeds when using an SSD in the optical drive in early 2011 MBPs.
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Added for emphasis. My late-2011 has had no trouble with SATA III drives in the optical bay.
 
saturnotaku said:
Added for emphasis. My late-2011 has had no trouble with SATA III drives in the optical bay.
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It's some machines, and some drives. It appears to be a completely random incompatibility, and does also affect some 2012 ones too.

One of my friends tried to put two Samsung 840 Pros in RAID 0 in his 2012 15" - the ODD bay refused to see either of the drives. He then swapped them for 2 Vertex drives and they worked fine.
 
Brian Y said:
It's some machines, and some drives. It appears to be a completely random incompatibility, and does also affect some 2012 ones too.

One of my friends tried to put two Samsung 840 Pros in RAID 0 in his 2012 15" - the ODD bay refused to see either of the drives. He then swapped them for 2 Vertex drives and they worked fine.
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Maybe it's an adapter issue. I've always used the OWC Data Doubler and run at least half a dozen hard drives and SSDs in the optical bay with no issues whatsoever.

However with my recent purchase of the new 960 GB Crucial M500, I won't ever have to worry about caddies again, or at least not for the foreseeable future. :D
 
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