Thanks in advance to give me some short answers about max out Storage with 2 SSDs (second one in a SATA 3 housing which replaces now the DVD drive).
MBP mid 2012 current OS Sierra, 16 GB RAM, Start volume Samsung 2 TB SSD which runs perfectly.
Installed a SATA 3 kit to have a second internal SSD....
I edited my posting:
Before I put in the second SSD with its kit disc utility showed correctly the start-volume (2TB SSD). After the second SSD kit has been installed disc utility showed the start volume now as a 1,5 TB SSD and the 4 TB SSD in the internal kit with a capacity of only 500 GB insetead of more (4TB)...
Used space on the 2 TB Start volume (SSD) is at the moment about 500 GB, the now physically and recognised 4 TB SSD has 2 partitions of 2 TB, one with 1 TB storage used, the other partition with about 700 GB storage used.
Of course you might ask yourself why I need so much space... well, I wanted to regard step by step many old files of and old start volume of 2 TB and copy those which I still need on my MBP on ONE SSD over some weeks or maybe months. The most elegant way seemed to me to have the 2 SSD inside and the chance to copy them very fast and step by step between the 2 SSDs everytime when absent from home due to my work and I do not want to lose an external SSD...
And later on I want to use the second SSD to have a backup drive internally (I know that I´ll need another backup externally elsewhere).
But using the second SSD as an external SSD is PITA because my MBP has just USB 2.0 connections and I spent already 30 hours with cloning a 2 TB SSD (using CCC)....
Please help me.
Thank you a lot in advance!
cheers
MBP mid 2012 current OS Sierra, 16 GB RAM, Start volume Samsung 2 TB SSD which runs perfectly.
Installed a SATA 3 kit to have a second internal SSD....
I edited my posting:
Before I put in the second SSD with its kit disc utility showed correctly the start-volume (2TB SSD). After the second SSD kit has been installed disc utility showed the start volume now as a 1,5 TB SSD and the 4 TB SSD in the internal kit with a capacity of only 500 GB insetead of more (4TB)...
Used space on the 2 TB Start volume (SSD) is at the moment about 500 GB, the now physically and recognised 4 TB SSD has 2 partitions of 2 TB, one with 1 TB storage used, the other partition with about 700 GB storage used.
Of course you might ask yourself why I need so much space... well, I wanted to regard step by step many old files of and old start volume of 2 TB and copy those which I still need on my MBP on ONE SSD over some weeks or maybe months. The most elegant way seemed to me to have the 2 SSD inside and the chance to copy them very fast and step by step between the 2 SSDs everytime when absent from home due to my work and I do not want to lose an external SSD...
And later on I want to use the second SSD to have a backup drive internally (I know that I´ll need another backup externally elsewhere).
But using the second SSD as an external SSD is PITA because my MBP has just USB 2.0 connections and I spent already 30 hours with cloning a 2 TB SSD (using CCC)....
Please help me.
Thank you a lot in advance!
cheers
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