whats in the optibay?
320 GB 7,200 rpm Western Digital Black. I can't believe how cool this all runs, even when loading the 320 with 120 GB of photos.
whats in the optibay?
whats in the optibay?
About your game plan: Put the SSD in the regular HD bay. That way, hibernation works.
I have the SSD in the optibay + hibernation doesn't work. You'll only notice this if you manage to run out of battery completely. But it kinda sucks for those rare occasions.
BTW the way I did it is I had both my original startup HD and the SSD installed, then used CarbonCopyCloner to clone the original. CCC lets you do a partial clone. So what I did is clone everything except my huge media folders. Worked without a hitch.
Prior to this, I had swiped lots of weird huge files from the disk though, using OmniDiskSweeper. OmniDiskSweeper also sizes folders so you will know when you are down to 60GB or so (in my case, as I only have a 80GB SSD).
THIS IS KILLING ME!!!!
Ok guys this is pissing me off. I have all my programs on the intel SSD (including Itunes.) I Point Itunes to my Hitachi drive where all the MP3s are. When It loads all of the MP3s into Itunes, It takes like 60gigs of random MP3s and puts it on the SSD! It has done this 3 times. Then As soon as I remove the random 60 gigs of MP3s off the SSD, I go into Itunes and Itunes wont find the path to ANY of the 300gigs of MP3s on the Hitachi drive.
Do you guys have your Itunes AND your MP3s on your HDD?
What am I doing wrong here. Time to CCC the drive and reinstall everything to get the SSD formatted... Again.
I changed the pathway and when I did that, it just imported the meta data and all was good............interesting
What is the exact way you changed the pathway? I want to see how it differs from what im doing... thanks.
What is the exact way you changed the pathway? I want to see how it differs from what im doing... thanks.
mike , do not change the path , just deselect itunes option "do not copy itunes files when adding" under advanced options under the preferences.
this will allow you to add your library from multiple locations and not take up any of your ssd.
mike , do not change the path , just deselect itunes option "do not copy itunes files when adding" under advanced options under the preferences.
this will allow you to add your library from multiple locations and not take up any of your ssd.
About your game plan: Put the SSD in the regular HD bay. That way, hibernation works.
I have the SSD in the optibay + hibernation doesn't work. You'll only notice this if you manage to run out of battery completely. But it kinda sucks for those rare occasions.
In the Itunes, preference/ advanced tab, i just selected the correct location of all my media files. Thats all.
1.Put SSD in ORIG. HD location.
2.Put HD of choice in superdrive location with caddy or alternative method.
3.Put your OSX disc in and install it on your SSD.
is anyone having trouble with the latest updates? I'm not on my MBP right now but I believe it was the Superdrive 3.0 firmware update. It addresses the noise the superdrive makes on startup and waking from sleep. Since there's a hard drive in place of the superdrive I would think that polling that SATA connection on startup is a good thing, but I could be wrong. Has anyone with an optibay (or equivalent) done this update? Any problems?
Up here,
Did you guys install the new Update with 2 hard disks in your mbp ?
They could be locked as well (latest WD 640 is)
So hook them up in place of your stock 250Gb drive, then you rule out adaptor's influence.
Just an update for anyone interested -
Bought an MCE adapter with the free superdrive ext case. Twice as expensive as the newmodeus that came in bad(I didn't return it due to me breaking the faceplate when I tried to install the adapter) BUT you dont have to buy an external dvd drive($50-100) so really, it would have been cheaper for me to buy the MCE originally since I bought a $60 pioneer drive.
Just an update for anyone interested -
Bought an MCE adapter with the free superdrive ext case. Twice as expensive as the newmodeus that came in bad(I didn't return it due to me breaking the faceplate when I tried to install the adapter) BUT you dont have to buy an external dvd drive($50-100) so really, it would have been cheaper for me to buy the MCE originally since I bought a $60 pioneer drive.
Anyway, the 500gb Toshiba from the external drive I pulled apart works great! Since I was in there I also bought an 80GB G2 Intel X-25 and WOW!! does it make a HUGE difference. It worked great using Carbon Copy Cloner to copy over OSX to the SSD. I can't recommend it enough!
THIS IS KILLING ME!!!!
Ok guys this is pissing me off. I have all my programs on the intel SSD (including Itunes.) I Point Itunes to my Hitachi drive where all the MP3s are. When It loads all of the MP3s into Itunes, It takes like 60gigs of random MP3s and puts it on the SSD! It has done this 3 times. Then As soon as I remove the random 60 gigs of MP3s off the SSD, I go into Itunes and Itunes wont find the path to ANY of the 300gigs of MP3s on the Hitachi drive.
Do you guys have your Itunes AND your MP3s on your HDD?
What am I doing wrong here. Time to CCC the drive and reinstall everything to get the SSD formatted... Again.
I think we should clarify few things on DD locations and SMS.
2. SMS is not part of a drive. Apparently it's external "device".
(Remember problems users (uMBP only?) had recently when used 3rd party HDDs with integral SMS'like features)
2a. Though you have SMS on board, it won't work with your HDD in OptiBay - it only targets drive in "HDDBay"
(in this case (SSD+HDD in OptiBay) it makes sense to disable SMS, and buy HDD with intergated OS'agnostic "SMS")
This all is IMHO & AFAIK.
Please help expand it with your knowledge and experience.