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Message: <blockquote data-quote="iggibar" data-source="post: 1157647" data-attributes="member: 97843">Sure thing! My OCZ Agility ssd replaced my optical drive via a mounting bracket. The Hybrid drive stayed in the regular hdd bay. The company I bought the bracket from also included an external enclosure for the optical drive(looks exactly like the macbook air external drive). You plug in the optical drive while the computer is still running off the regular drive, slide the cd in, and turn the computer off. Hold option key as you reboot so you can select to boot from the external cd. Then, I just followed all the steps to format the ssd, and installed OSX10.6 on it afterwards. Sounds simple, but I've been reading a lot on how people seem to easily mess up the formating part. Next step below...I have used migration assistant the first time, because I needed OSX running with all my programs ASAP for class. All migration assistant does is shift data from one hdd to another. If you have corrupt files, those get transferred too. You won't know the difference unless you try a clean install as well. After that, I did a clean install. I have separate hd's that I use to keep my own, manual backups, of pictures/media and music. I installed all my programs individually. I know you will get people who say I am wasting time, but really, this is a fool proof way of guaranteeing a perfect new OS install just how you had it, if not better. I actually don't mind doing this, because I know exactly what I did on the OS, instead of relying on a program to move hundreds of thousands of files over...you're bound to get a messed up file. Also, after talking to bobtomay a while regarding this, I took the time(just because I had it) to redo new backup via migration assistant from my previous, after doing a clean install, because I had neglected to record the bootup times. With the migration assistant backup, a complete startup to a fully loaded desktop never came under 29-30(with a slow finger<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite7" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":p" />) seconds. After getting those numbers, I reinstalled all the programs again, reloaded 2000+ photos and videos, 500 songs, reset all the bootup starting programs, and checked the complete startup time again. It is a VERY consistent bootup of 26 seconds plus or minus .5 seconds. That's enough of an argument for me to take the time and do everything the way I do it. But, If you read other online stuff, I'm not alone. I reassigned the "Home" folder(the one with the house picture) to my XT harddrive(thanks to bobtomay's suggestion), as well as the iTunes library of music and apps(you don't notice their speed. It's the actual app I want to open at the flick of a finger).Nope. Just the built-in data viewing that can be accessed by right clicking on the desktop, click on "show view options," and select "show item info." This shows how much of what total capacity is used up. Haha...no problem. I might pull the ssd out of my mbp and try it out on the G5...I've been reading online that it awakes the sleeping beast inside<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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