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1. #Replace mac dvd drive with hard drive portable#
2. #Replace mac dvd drive with hard drive pro#
3. #Replace mac dvd drive with hard drive windows#

For more information about the Blu-Ray burner we bought, check out our blog on "How to Burn a Blu-Ray with Adobe Encore and Toast Titanium".

#Replace mac dvd drive with hard drive portable#

This does mean that we no longer have a disc drive, but seriously, when is the last time you used your optical drive?! We bought an external Blu-Ray/DVD burner recently that is tiny and portable and can actually burn Blu-Rays, so we felt like it would be a much more valuable to get rid of the disc drive and almost double our storage space. It's amazingly fast and we're not quite sure why we didn't do this sooner. We went from one 750GB hard drive and 4GB of RAM to one 1TB SSD, one 750GB HD and 16GB of RAM. It took a total of about 35 minutes to swap the old hard drive with a Sandisk Solid State Drive, add in more Crucial RAM to max it out, and swap the optical disc drive with a caddy that holds the old hard drive.

#Replace mac dvd drive with hard drive pro#

This last week we supercharged our our Macbook Pro (Mid-2012) and seriously could not be more pleased. When the RecoveryHD is missing, simply reinstall Sierra with the latest Sierra installer downloaded from the App Store - which shouldn't affect your data but creates an additional RecoveryHD - or use the Recovery Partition Creator 4.Hello everyone! Here is another how-to blog for your reading and learning pleasure.Check if a RecoveryHD is present by opening Terminal and entering diskutil list. After the restore task has finished successfully, boot your Mac normally.choose the drive and restore it to your Macintosh HD volume.

#Replace mac dvd drive with hard drive windows#

attach the Time Machine backup drive and in the Utilities windows choose Restore from Time Machine Backup > Select backup source >.Verify the Fusion Drive with: diskutil verifyDisk disk0 # use one of the disk identifiers found previously The drives related to Internet Recovery Mode have a size of 1.2 GB or smaller!Ĭreate a new LVG and LV (here I assume the 120 GB SSD has the disk identifier disk0 and the 3 TB HDD disk1 - they might be different though!): diskutil cs create Fusion disk0 disk1ĭiskutil cs createVolume lvgUUID jhfs+ "Macintosh HD" 100% #replace lvgUUID with the UUID shown in the output of the previous command Booted to Internet Recovery Mode you will get a list of 14-16 drives - only two of them are your hard drives. Open Terminal in the menubar Utilities > Terminal and get the device identifiers of the two hard drives by entering diskutil list.

Don't erase your thumb drive or a drive visible called Boot OS X "fusion1" and "fusion2" but not "Macintosh HD").

Shutdown your Mac and replace one (or both) of the old drives.

Then check whether you can boot to Internet Recovery Mode or create a bootable thumb drive and also try to boot to it. To replace either of the drives, backup your exisiting volume(s) first with Time Machine. After destroying the LVG/LV the file system as well as system files or other files are corrupted and the remnants won't be bootable. Removing one of the physical drives means removing one of the physical volumes and therefore tearing the LVG as well as the LV apart. Usually an algorithm ensures that system files are stored on the faster SSD but there is no guarantee. System files may also reside on both drives. The Logical Volume is the one mounted to root (and if enabled - the volume visible on the desktop).Ī file stored on the Logical Volume may reside on the SSD as well as on the HDD. Creating a default Fusion Drive means building one Logical Volume in the LVG spanning both physical volumes. The two physical volumes are part of a Logical Volume Group. The special volume on the HDD usually is the Recovery HD. Each of the physical drives contains three partitions: an EFI partition, a so-called physical volume and a special volume. A Fusion Drive is a composite of two physical drives: a fast but small SSD and a slower but larger HDD.