emir
macrumors 6502a
Hi everyone;
I've been using my mid 2010 15" Macbook Pro quite happily for 2.5 years now and i think it's time for a little bit of an update. Fusion drive hack tempts me anyways.
So i'm going to replace my superdrive with an SSD and keep my old 320GB stock HDD and fuse them together with fusion drive. While i am at it, i'll take the SSD to the original Hard drive spot and put old HDD on the optibay since superdrive has sata 1 and hard drive has sata 2 (as far as i know, correct me if i'm wrong)
Price is really important for me and shipping time and prices are also really high for me because i live in Turkey. MCE Technologies's optibay costs 50 bucks + 30 for usb enclosure for old superdrive however i can easily find optibay + usb enclosure on ebay for 25-30 bucks. Considering shipping will cost about 30-40$ and will take 2-3 weeks, that's a huge advantage. What's the difference between those optibays? I am guessing ebay ones are not the same quality obviously but does it matter that much? Which one should i go for?
Also since 2010 macbook pros have sata 2 and not 3 i am thinking of going for a sata 2 ssd. On the Turkish tech stores all they have is sata3 and paying for the newest and latest when i can not use it makes little sense to me. It's 250-300$ for OCZ 240GB Vertex 3 here. Should i go for cheaper online sata 2 ones,which ones, where to find them?
Lastly, can you give me some sites for optibay and ssds that ship internationally? Help would be really appriciated for me to get supply for these.
thanks in advance, any advice is appreciated.
Cheers;
I've been using my mid 2010 15" Macbook Pro quite happily for 2.5 years now and i think it's time for a little bit of an update. Fusion drive hack tempts me anyways.
So i'm going to replace my superdrive with an SSD and keep my old 320GB stock HDD and fuse them together with fusion drive. While i am at it, i'll take the SSD to the original Hard drive spot and put old HDD on the optibay since superdrive has sata 1 and hard drive has sata 2 (as far as i know, correct me if i'm wrong)
Price is really important for me and shipping time and prices are also really high for me because i live in Turkey. MCE Technologies's optibay costs 50 bucks + 30 for usb enclosure for old superdrive however i can easily find optibay + usb enclosure on ebay for 25-30 bucks. Considering shipping will cost about 30-40$ and will take 2-3 weeks, that's a huge advantage. What's the difference between those optibays? I am guessing ebay ones are not the same quality obviously but does it matter that much? Which one should i go for?
Also since 2010 macbook pros have sata 2 and not 3 i am thinking of going for a sata 2 ssd. On the Turkish tech stores all they have is sata3 and paying for the newest and latest when i can not use it makes little sense to me. It's 250-300$ for OCZ 240GB Vertex 3 here. Should i go for cheaper online sata 2 ones,which ones, where to find them?
Lastly, can you give me some sites for optibay and ssds that ship internationally? Help would be really appriciated for me to get supply for these.
thanks in advance, any advice is appreciated.
Cheers;
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