I am thinking about removing the dvd drive in my macbook pro 15" and putting in a SSD drive. Then create a fusion drive using both the existing harddrive and the new ssd.
What is recomended?
1) Swapping the hd to the dvd and putting the ssd in the existing hds place.
2) Or just replace the ssd with the dvd-drive? Leaving the HD where its at.
MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2), 15 inch, late 2011
In your case it won't matter where you put it since the data connections are both 6.0 Gb/s. Visit OWC to check out their Mercury_6G SSDs and their DataDoubler.
MacBook Pro's, for some reason, like the boot drive in the 'original' HD location. I have no idea if this would be the case with a DIY 'fusion' drive, however.
You may want to actually call OWC to see what they recommend (and, if you're going to replace the optical drive, you simply can't so better than the OWC Data Doubler)...
Good luck,
Clinton
Replace dvd drive with SSD
