Flexibility in drive choice You can make one drive the boot/applications drive and another drive your data drive. Convenient backup With dual internal drives, you can operate conventionally with one drive as your main drive, using the other as a convenient internal backup. You can even partition them, and have striping for your boot drive and mirroring for your data (or vice versa).
Increase reliability You can forgo the doubling of storage and speed and instead set up the two drives as a RAID mirror, where each drive is an identical copy so that if one drive fails, you lose nothing. Double your disk performance By making a striped RAID, you not only double your storage, you double its speed! Even if you’re only after more speed (not more storage), larger drives mean better performance, and striping doubly enhances that performance. The drives can be separate volumes or a fast RAID stripe (next item). Two internal drives can: Double your internal storage space Two drives offer up to 1TB of internal storage (or twice the size of whatever drives you choose to install).
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The Mac is perfectly happy to come to a new understanding that the optical drive is not there, and there is an extra hard drive-everything just works as it should. See the reviews of the 2.93GHz 17" MacBook Pro and 2.8GHz 15" MacBook Pro.
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The removed optical drive can be installed into an external case.īy March 16, 2009, you should be able to order a kit from OWC to install a second hard drive and to put the optical drive into a USB2 enclosure (and a few weeks after that a higher-performing quad-interface eSATA/FW800-400/USB2 enclosure). I rarely use the optical drive, so for me dual internal drives is far more useful. Other World Computing (OWC) provided a prototype adapter to connect a 2nd internal hard drive by removing the optical (DVD) drive. No wheels involved dude, but what can you do to spiff up your 17" MacBook Pro? After upgrading to 6GB or 8GB memory, then what? Send Feedback Related: 4K and 5K display, acclimatizing to altitude, Apple macOS, backup, computer display, eSATA, hard drive, laptop, MacBook, MacBook Pro, memory, noise, peak bagging, Photoshop, RAID, RAID-0, RAW, SSD, storage