Macbook Pro RAID 0?

[quasinormal]

I need more capacity for my music library. Is it a good idea to software RAID 0 two Samsung 1TB 9.5mm drives in my 2011 15" MBP? I'll be making regular back ups of course and i don't need bootcamp.

Also, is the optical drive connection standard SATA?

 

[dusk007]

What is the point?
You don't need any such kind of speed for Music. I wouldn't take the downsides of a stripe set for a speed increase I don't need.

Of course it is standard S-ATA what else do you imagine it could be?

 

[quasinormal]

What is the point?
You don't need any such kind of speed for Music. I wouldn't take the downsides of a stripe set for a speed increase I don't need.

Of course it is standard S-ATA what else do you imagine it could be?

Read my first sentence. I just want to be able to have my entire library internally. Speed in not a consideration, apart from being unable to install a SSD.

A 12mm 1.5tb drive would solve my problem for now, but they don't exist.

I've never seen a SATA optical drive before. The laptop PATA ones i've seen don't seem to have a normal connector.

 

[dusk007]

Well it is mSATA which means you'd need something like an optibay which is effectively an normal SATA to mSATA Adapter.

Forgot that iTunes is a bit inflexible with Mediafolders.

Raid 0 definitely works. I know some people run SSDs in Raid 0.
Never done it my self but there is plenty of information on the web.
Just a little googling.
http://macs.about.com/od/usingyourmac/ss/raidstripe.htm
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2735122?start=0&tstart=0