![]() However, reading here would suggest that the 17-inch early-2011 MacBook Pro may not support a 6.0 gigabit connection. ![]() I checked in System Profiler, and it shows that the optical drive's link speed at 6 gigabits, with negotiated link speed at 1.5 gigabits therefore I'm guessing it's a SATA III capable connection that's simply throttled to the speed of the optical drive. However, I am aware that in some 2011 MacBook Pros, the optical bay can use either a SATA II or SATA III connection. ![]() That being said, I am considering swapping out my SuperDrive for a second hard drive - keeping the OS and programs installed and running from the SSD, and saving documents and files on the HDD. The speed is amazing, but I don't want to load too much data onto the drive since TRIM cannot be enabled in Yosemite without disabling kext signatures (I'm utilizing the disk garbage collection and do not wish to enable TRIM the more disk space available, the better the garbage collection firmware works on the SSD). I have an early-2011 MacBook Pro running OS X 10.10.2 (also Windows 7 Professional on a Boot Camp partition), and recently upgraded my hard drive to a 500GB SSD (Crucial MX100). 46.7K subscribers Macbook (A1278) video series: Remove bottom case (recurring for all videos) 1.
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