On 25 Jun 2013, at 23:27 , Carl Hoefs <newsli...@autonomy.caltech.edu> wrote: > On Jun 25, 2013, at 9:04 AM, LuKreme <krem...@kreme.com> wrote: >> >> The really tricky part of it is you want the SSD in the upper bay. This >> involves a complete tear down of the mini to its component parts. If you >> unfamiliar with this replacement, you should probably take it somewhere and >> have them do it it will be money well spent. > > Is there something special about the upper bay, other than it's the default > boot drive location? What if I place the SSD in the lower bay, do the dd > image copy from the HDD to the SSD and then set Sys Prefs 'Startup Disk' to > boot from the SSD? Heck, then I don't even need an external enclosure…
Yes, that will work. There was a reason that you were supposed to put an SSD in the upper bay (I looked into doing this on my own 2009 mini and I remember reading this proviso several times), but I can't find it now. For the record, the default boot is the Lower bay (which is easier to access). If you are not already doing so, I would mirror the boot drive to your other drive, which will make recovery very fast if there is a hard drive problem. I don't think I'd put an SSD in a FW enclosure just to have a third redundant drive. -- If you mixed vodka with orange juice and Milk Of Magnesia, would you get a Philip's Screwdriver? _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
