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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1643495"><p>That unit (which I have) is designed to go into the Optical Drive bay on the MBP and serves as additional storage. What I did (and like) is that I got the SSD from OWC (MacSales) and installed it in place of the HD, then moved the HD to the Optical bay in the data doubler. That basically doubled my storage and put the SSD as the boot drive, which was a fantastic improvement in boot speed. You'll probably need to get the adapter to fit the 7mm SSD into the 9mm HD space, btw. </p><p></p><p>To move the data from your current drive to the SSD, the easiest way is to use Carbon Copy Cloner or Super Duper! to clone your drive from the HD to the SSD. Both will do it properly. You can do that either by putting the data doubler in, with the SSD and then running CCC or SD! to clone from the HD to the SSD, then swapping them, or if you have an external enclosure with a good high-speed interface, you can put the new SSD in the external, do the CCC/SD! clone and then do the installation. This latter way you only open the MBP once, instead of twice with the former, but the clone times will most likely be longer on the latter unless the external interface is really quick.</p><p></p><p>Hope that helps some.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1643495"] That unit (which I have) is designed to go into the Optical Drive bay on the MBP and serves as additional storage. What I did (and like) is that I got the SSD from OWC (MacSales) and installed it in place of the HD, then moved the HD to the Optical bay in the data doubler. That basically doubled my storage and put the SSD as the boot drive, which was a fantastic improvement in boot speed. You'll probably need to get the adapter to fit the 7mm SSD into the 9mm HD space, btw. To move the data from your current drive to the SSD, the easiest way is to use Carbon Copy Cloner or Super Duper! to clone your drive from the HD to the SSD. Both will do it properly. You can do that either by putting the data doubler in, with the SSD and then running CCC or SD! to clone from the HD to the SSD, then swapping them, or if you have an external enclosure with a good high-speed interface, you can put the new SSD in the external, do the CCC/SD! clone and then do the installation. This latter way you only open the MBP once, instead of twice with the former, but the clone times will most likely be longer on the latter unless the external interface is really quick. Hope that helps some. [/QUOTE]
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