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<blockquote data-quote="Chris_Music" data-source="post: 1628447" data-attributes="member: 139994">Hi Harry, Thanks for the replyI don't have any fast PCI slots left unfortunately, taken up by two graphics cards. Plus PCI SSD cards are a bit out of my price range!I have an SSD in my Macbook Pro Laptop, and when I first installed it, the boot up time took ages to get to the apple logo, then after that it pretty much loaded straight away. Initially I was disappointed, as It took over a minute to load, and I was expecting it to be a lot quicker. Then I read online that I needed to set the default startup drive in system preferences. Once I had done this, then the Macbook Pro started up in 24 seconds. As it was still looking for the original hard drive, then when it couldn't find it, it booted from the SSD. So surely if I just chose the Startup drive as the spare SATA port, it shouldn't make a difference no? My main concern is the use of the Molex to dual SATA power adaptor being safe?Thanks</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Chris_Music, post: 1628447, member: 139994"] Hi Harry, Thanks for the reply I don't have any fast PCI slots left unfortunately, taken up by two graphics cards. Plus PCI SSD cards are a bit out of my price range! I have an SSD in my Macbook Pro Laptop, and when I first installed it, the boot up time took ages to get to the apple logo, then after that it pretty much loaded straight away. Initially I was disappointed, as It took over a minute to load, and I was expecting it to be a lot quicker. Then I read online that I needed to set the default startup drive in system preferences. Once I had done this, then the Macbook Pro started up in 24 seconds. As it was still looking for the original hard drive, then when it couldn't find it, it booted from the SSD. So surely if I just chose the Startup drive as the spare SATA port, it shouldn't make a difference no? My main concern is the use of the Molex to dual SATA power adaptor being safe? Thanks [/QUOTE]

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