The SuperDrive optical drive is the big flat silver component as shown in the picture below – it should be fairly obvious. Invest in one of those special wrist straps or touch part of the metal case before you handle any of the sensitive electronic components inside. Remove the Optical Driveīefore you touch your Mac’s innards, it’s essential that you’re grounded. Remove all the screws holding your Mac together – remember which goes where 2. Once you’ve unscrewed them, you should be able to remove the bottom plate of your computer. Next, unscrew the 10 screws found underneath your MacBook – note that some are longer than others, so it’s important that you remember which ones go where and put them to one side. Open Your Macīefore you open up your Mac and perform open heart surgery, make sure it’s cool – it’s best to wait 10-15 minutes because they can get quite hot. The MCE OptiBay drive enclosure is an essential item 1. SSD disk drives have extremely quick access times The MacBook Pro doesn’t have space for a second drive by default, but because it has an optical drive (and most people hardly use them anyway) this can be removed to make way for the new SSD. Since the vast majority of Mac sales are MacBooks, this article describes the basics of installing an additional SSD in your MacBook.

Many of the iMac desktops have quite a lot of spare room inside, so it’s possible to install an SSD as a secondary disk drive – this way Mac OS X and all your apps can be kept on the SSD and documents, pictures and other files moved to the larger capacity hard disk. But an SSD will speed up Mac OS X Lion and provide a significant performance boost – applications will open up more speedily and boot-up times will improve noticeably. The only minor downside is that SSD capacities are usually way below those of regular disks and they can be quite expensive too. They provide lightning fast disk access times because there are no moving parts, unlike a traditional spinning hard disk. An SSD (solid state drive) is one of the most worthwhile for your Mac.

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