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<blockquote data-quote="rchertzy46" data-source="post: 1743266" data-attributes="member: 387576"><p><strong>forced fusion drive?</strong></p><p></p><p>The comment below about a trap when mixing SSD and HDD in the same Mac seems incorrect today (Jan 2, 2017). I am running Yosemite (10.10.5) and I replaced my Macbook Pro's HDD with a SSD, then moved the HDD to the previous DVD drive position (using OWC adapters). The HDD just shows up as another drive. Maybe it's because the HDD was already formatted? So I now have very fast boot up (11 sec) with the cheap 120GB SSD, and access to lots of extra storage on the 750 GB HDD. Also that allows easy access from my desktop iMac to the HDD files as the HDD appears like a normal external drive. Oh, I kept the DVD drive using a box from OWC (they have a nice package to make SSD swapping very easy).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rchertzy46, post: 1743266, member: 387576"] [b]forced fusion drive?[/b] The comment below about a trap when mixing SSD and HDD in the same Mac seems incorrect today (Jan 2, 2017). I am running Yosemite (10.10.5) and I replaced my Macbook Pro's HDD with a SSD, then moved the HDD to the previous DVD drive position (using OWC adapters). The HDD just shows up as another drive. Maybe it's because the HDD was already formatted? So I now have very fast boot up (11 sec) with the cheap 120GB SSD, and access to lots of extra storage on the 750 GB HDD. Also that allows easy access from my desktop iMac to the HDD files as the HDD appears like a normal external drive. Oh, I kept the DVD drive using a box from OWC (they have a nice package to make SSD swapping very easy). [/QUOTE]
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