Using an Optibay for new macbooks in warranty, should I?

[fullenglishpint]

Quick update already, parts ordered. shipped to my UK address though so nothing else will be happening till I go back at easter.

[fullenglishpint]

Quick update for you guys, I'm in an apple store right now getting my battery replaced under warranty and the guy said it wouldn't be a problem that I'd done the double swap, mainly because he wanted to have a look inside to see what I'd done!

I think it may depend on who helps you and what kind of mood they're in, I might just have been lucky. Free battery replacement is awesome though, apparently I've managed 527 full charge cycles in just over 2 years and the battery was NOT happy.

[V-Hoff]

Thanks for the feedback
I've just bought my macbook 13" entry model... I will leave the SSD mod for the next year, after my krks and xone:k2...

[D-Kem]

I've had similar feedback from the apple store re the mod when i needed to change my power adaptor. No probs re warranty.

I switched the drives around, SSD in main slot and hard drive in optibay. DVD drive housed externally and runs via USB.

Dead easy mod, well worth doing and not one problem in almost 1 year of current setup.

[mfuchs19]

So I'm doing this most likely, but is there a way to run both simultaneously so that my music and movies and whatnot can be on my HDD but my software and stuff an be on the SSD and they work simultaneously? Like it acts as one drive or I can just choose to install programs on whatever drive I want? I only want a 64 gb SSD for my programs and the rest can go on my HDD

[D-Kem]

Yep the SDD is the system drive and 2nd drive is storage. Can't remember how i did this (was quite a while back) but i have a vague memory of using carbon copy cloner then altering where my home was?? There is a great how to online if you google it.

[Karlos Santos]

Worth noting that if your Mac goes to Apple for repair under Applecare the diagnostic they will run (which i have seen at first hand) will show that the optibay has been tampered with and your Apple care goes in the bin.

They had a look at mine last month and instanly knew id changed the HD (which was user replaceable) so no worries so you would have to undo any changes before taking it in.

[DJMutagen]

My friend did the same thing, his keyboard letters where wearing off from heavy use so he took it in on his last week of AppleCare. Of course not realizing that he didn't put his optical drive back in. He had a sticky note on his new keyboard when he got it back that said "sweet bay drive mod, gonna do this myself *tech name scribbles*". You may meet a badass I think I'm gonna do it, too. Just got my GF's old 1st gen Macbook back up and running, gonna throw a 1TB in an Optibay bracket and have it be my storage.

[Nesquigs]

only thing ill say is that 60 (ish) Gb is not that big

i have osx and a buncha programs, and literally nothing else and im at like 54 gb used.

spend the extra money and make sure you have the space, as ive had to make sacrifices and not have certain programs run from my ssd (not sure if you can run em from the HDD tho... just thought of that, gonna check it out)

[mostapha]

only thing ill say is that 60 (ish) Gb is not that big

i have osx and a buncha programs, and literally nothing else and im at like 54 gb used.

spend the extra money and make sure you have the space, as ive had to make sacrifices and not have certain programs run from my ssd (not sure if you can run em from the HDD tho... just thought of that, gonna check it out)

First, you can install programs wherever you want.

Second…you suck at space management. I ran off a 64GB SSD on my production/DJing laptop for like 3 years without a problem. I had very little free space, but I never got into issues from the drive being full and managed to keep a movie or two on the laptop at all times. Just don't install any BS that you don't need. If you try to install Komplete, for example, on an internal SSD…you deserve what you get.