I've been searching all over trying to figure out exactly what cables I need to install a X25-M in my MP 2.8's spare optical bay. Can anyone who's done this give me some advice? I think I know what SATA cable I need, but I'm confused as to how to power the drive.
View 7 Replies[URL] recommends installing SSD in the 2nd optical bay drive right below the SuperDrive without need to secure (mount/screw it in) it. Read a review by Wavy Dave on Amazon and he doesn't recommend installing SSD in the optical bay even though it has a SATA connector because it's not a "primary" SATA connector. Is that true, our optical bay SATA connector is not primary?? I currently have all 4 bays filled with HDDs so would rather install the X-25M 160 GB below the SuperDrive.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI just installed an SSD into my optical drive bay, as well as upgrading my RAM (from 4 Gigs to 8) of my late 2008, MBP 15". I am booting it up for the first time, since installation, and, now need to re-org my files so that the MBP makes optimal use of the new SSD and RAM.
Should I now migrate all my files from my old HD (still in its bay) onto my new SSD? If so, what is the best way to do so?
Well, now that I've booted up, the MBP doesn't even see the new SSD? I made sure I installed it as closely as possible to the OWC instructional video.
Is there a step after installing that I need to do?
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MacBook Pro (15-inch Late 2008), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.4)
I'm planning to install a second internal HD in the optical drive space to accompany my 80gb SSD. The basic process of physically installing the 2nd HD I understand. [URL] But what I do not "FULLY" understand, is the process of "installing" the new HD when you boot the computer. - general and specifics This may seem like a "unnecessary/dumb" question, but the main reason why I'm asking this is because I'm installing this 2nd HD from the optical drive space. Is the process in installing an HD the same as if I were to install it in the original HD area?
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View 12 Replies View RelatedI just finished up a fresh install of Windows 7 and downloaded and installed the NVidia driver from their site directly since the one in the Boot Camp files is pretty old and technically the Vista driver anyway.
But I still need the Brightness, Sound, etc key functionality. Is there a way to selectively install Boot Camp drivers? That's the only one I need. The wireless, chipset, video and everything else works just fine (and in some cases better) than the ones included in Apple's setup.
I recently purchased a Mac Pro and am breaking down my old Windows Xp replacement that this is replacing. I kept the nicest of the two DVD Rewritable drives I had in it.
I want to put this as a second drive in the Mac Pro. My question, I got drive replacement information off of Apple's web site but this is an addition, not a replacement.
This information should still help me a lot but most of all, how do I set the connector in the back? Do I put it to slave/primary, or cable select?
Is there anything else I have to do such as when I boot up the Mac Pro or will it simply just recognize it?
is there a "hard" 4 HD limit? (In other words: by putting a SSD in the 2nd optical bay, would the Mac Pro only recognize 3 of the 4 internal bays?)
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I recently did a crossflash with DVRFlash to update the firmware on the drive hoping that doing so would improve DL-DVD write speeds. No dice.
SO... I am looking for a newer, better, faster optical drive.
I know it needs to be ATA to work in my antique mac pro.
Does it need to be some kind of mac specific drive? Can you give me any recommendations?
I haven't really dug around much inside my 2009 Pro. I currently have Hd's in all 4 3.5" drive bays, but I only have the single optical bay filled. I was wondering, since I've seen people talk about a 2 SSD into 1 Optical bay bracket, can you run 2 SSD's off that single bay in the 2009? Where are you getting the 2nd SATA connector into that bay?
Optical
SSD1, SSD2
HD1
HD2
HD3
HD4
Do-able? And can the SSD's be bootable in that sort of setup?
Since I have no plans to add a second Optical Drive to my Mac Pro in the Second Optical Drive bay, I was wondering if I could put an SSD in that bay using a 2.5' to 3.5" drive carriage. Is this possible? Would it work? Would I be able to use it as my boot drive? Never tried this, so not sure if it would work.
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Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3), Quad-Core 2010 Model
Just bought a mid-2012 MacPro. Also purchased a Crucial 512GB SSD drive, which I intend to use for a boot drive. I know that I can install the drive in one of the four slide out drive bays. From what I can gather, it doesn't matter which bay I use, Mac will boot equally well from any of them. My question is: What about the second optical bay? Is there any advantage to putting the SSD there? (other than keeping another slot open for HDD?) Have tried to research this a bit, but the model is brand-new, not a lot of info out there..
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Mac Pro (Mid 2012), Mac OS X (10.7)
What if any are the downsides of using the 2nd Optical bay to house an SSD?
Is the SATA port independent like the 4 drive bays in terms of the bandwidth available to the port?
Can a SSD in an optical drive slot be a boot drive in a 2010 mac pro.
I'm debating getting a 2010 mac pro (probably 3.2 quad) to upgrade from my 1,1 mac pro. I'd like a SSD for apps, and to boot from. But I'd also like the four bays to raid for larger capacity. I have tons of photos, and nearly a 2GB iTunes library.
I just upgraded to the most recent itunes. It seems that my airport express setup no longer works. I have an older (a/g) airport express, and to that I use the optical out to my DAC. Currently when I try to play from my express it tells me that there are no speakers hooked up to it!
View 1 Replies View Relatedafter I get a bad burn (it's very rare, but it does happen), I get a stuck DVD. I can't open the DVD tray unless I either restart the computer or wait a &$?# long time before it gets done trying to read an unreadable DVD. Even the terminal won't allow me to open it. Is there a way to get the DVD tray opened "immediately"? Sucks to think that we don't have control over that.
View 14 Replies View RelatedOk, so I've got a Philips DVD R/RW drive and I want to put it in my Mac Pro. I put it in, hooked everything up, but it won't open for me (opt. + Eject, I know). It's set on cable select, but I've also tried it on slave with the stock on master. Anyone have any ideas? I'd like to get this working as soon as I can.
PS, when I wake the MP from sleep, the light on the second drive blinks, but nothing else.
i added a newer dvd-r drive today and used the original one as a back up when i press the eject button, the top one opens. how do i access the 2nd optical drive?
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I have dvds from Region 1 but my daughter has sent me some work of hers from the Uk. I only have 5 times to change the region and therefore my question is should i buy a 2nd optical drive and use that for region 2 and the original for region 1.
I have just installed a 2nd Optical drive in my MP I have a 2 X 2.8 Quad Core Intel Xeon model and have attempted to add a Samsung 22X Pata Internal DVDRW [URL] It is not showing in profiler and it doesnt show on the eject icon. When my mac pro powers up the drive lights up but doesnt register. I took the front bezel off but do i need to do anything else ?
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When I try, it either
1) doesnt work
2) when I try VLC, it slows my system to a crawl (beachball)
Anyone ever get around this issue?
If I needed to mount two drives in the empty optical bay and put both of them on RAID 0, would this and this be the only 2 things I would need?
Also, with the Pro Caddy 2, would I need one of their PCIe cards? Their site says that a card is needed, but since I would be getting the RAID card, would I need to even get one of theirs or would the RAID card be all I need?
They give three options for PCIe cards with the Pro Caddy 2: none, nonbootable PCIe card, and bootable card.
So would I be good with just the areca 1210 and the Pro Caddy 2 without a card or would I need a separate card for the caddy?
What is the BEST optical drive that a PowerMac G5 can support?
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