Introduction
There are many benefits to adding a second hard drive to your laptop such as improved speeds, greater storage space, and less heartache when installing new software. Use this guide to install one using our optical bay hard drive enclosure.
What you need
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Remove the following ten screws securing the lower case to the upper case:
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Three 13.5 mm (14.1 mm) Phillips screws.
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Seven 3 mm Phillips screws.
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Use the edge of a spudger to pry the battery connector upwards from its socket on the logic board.
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Pull the optical drive cable out of the optical drive.
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Remove the two black Phillips #0 screws securing the small metal mounting bracket. Transfer this bracket to your new optical drive or hard drive enclosure.
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Remove the plastic spacer from the optical bay hard drive enclosure by pressing in on one of the clips on either side and lifting it up and out of the enclosure.
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Make sure that the hard drive connectors are facing down before placing it into the enclosure.
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Gently place the hard drive into the enclosure's hard drive slot.
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While firmly holding the enclosure in place with one hand, use your other hand to press the hard drive into the enclosure connectors.
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To reassemble your device, follow these instructions in reverse order.
To reassemble your device, follow these instructions in reverse order.
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6 Guide Comments
ho riscontrato problema all'hd collegato nell'optibay ...
Usually there is a point in any project where I can say to myself (if no one else), "What idiot wrote this?" or "These instructions were clearly written for a different widget because I do not have the same Part A in figure 12!!!" There is also usually a place where the determination has to be made on whether I saved enough of the packaging to return the product and claim some deficiency and try to get my money back because I broke something or there was a "weird spark and resulting small fire." I've grown so accustomed to my own failure or instructions written by someone using Google as their sole translator into the English language, that i NEVER expect to really succeed with something like this. Incredibly well written and fool proof. Thank you for taking the time and getting it 100% dead-on right! FANTASTIC! You have restored my faith in humanity!
from times to times my second hard drive in the optical drive / HDD adaptator no longer shows up as if it was disconnected. what to do with that ? I think its whenever inactive my mac forgets about it
Caddy + 1TB hybryd drive installed
additional 500 GB ssd no problem trim enabled
Mac recognises caddy hdd as “Remote disc”
not seen in disk Utility even as hidden
formatted ok externaly & works fine same with original 750 hdd with os on ??
spins up but shows as remote disc & is inaccessible by any disk Utility or recovery programme
been on so many forums, no answer. Now seriously thinking it cannot be done.
Wont accept firmware updates
going to try installing back to matn lion then install firmware off that? Also got a hdd cable on order to try as a temporary measure as opposed to SATA ?
got another short opti SATA cable on order also just incase, I tried the insulation tape trick on the connector also?
Thats all my ideas used up after that, I think I will have covered just about everything possible?
any ideas
cheers in advance
Easy to follow guide. Make sure to read all directions especially section 8! Maybe even check the comments at section 8 to make sure you don't mess your equipment up. Other than that it was a simple job using ifixit kit and took about 20 min. The optical drive works as an external drive. The old HDD is installed as a backup drive and the new SSD is installed as main boot drive. Good luck!
