Install ssd mac pro optical bay

Does the case have enough clearance to do so? BTW, I have a related question: Am I correct in assuming that they need not be mounted properly since they have no moving parts? By the way, thanks Mike for being so quick and helpful in your responses — you guys are the best! What size is the clearance between the inside base of the optical drive cage and the base of the superdrive?

Is it even possible to fit two HDDs in the gap, if a suitable mounting system were fabricated? I have a metalworker friend. Perhaps using the upper deck of the top X-Swing. Would mounting the X-Swing upside down allow the installation of two drives below the optical drive?

I notice that there is free space below the drives in your photo, and turning over the X-Swing shifts the centre of the drives relative to the mounting points. Would this measure up? We had tried a few alternate combinations to install two 3. However, we currently do offer a solution for installing one based on the X-Swing here. I would like to know the answer the question that James 22 asks. I am planning on doing the same exact thing.

I know I need the first two things, but do I also need the power cable adapter? Be great to know before ordering, thank you! In reply 2 you said it will fit just about any 5.

So just to confirm they work with any standard tower case yes? OWC Michael, is there an X-swing like device that can hold two 2.

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Thanks, good advice. Is there a board that does both extra internal and external SATA ports, to me that would be the bonus option. You certainly could go that direction, yes. The power adapter you speak of can be found here: Erick — Absolutely, a drive installed in the optical drive bay could be used as the boot drive.

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Would it work to install the boot drive in the optical bay? The boot drive is the one least likely to be swapped out and if it were in the optical bay then there would be 4 bays available for easy exchange. To answer your question though, yes two disks will fit. But only two. The nice thing is only one X-Swing would be necessary in either event as there are two ways it can be installed. One for single drive use, one for double drive use on the bracket. Installing two hard drives and an optical drive poses a problem in fitting all three into the optical drive bay bracket.

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Just to make the issue of whether an additional adapter is needed in installing a 5th hard drive into ANY Mac Pro…. So, type of drive can make a difference depending on the model of Mac Pro being installed in. I thought there was supposed to be a special cable connecting the hard drive iso SuperDrive. OWC have put my order on hold at my request to see if I can add this connector that I will need to connect the 3.

If you have a SATA hard drive, the connections are the same and no other cables would be necessary. OWC Part Number: OK, thanks. The optical drive replacement video shows how to get into the optical drive bay.

To date, we have not made a video showing the installation of the X-Swing, but the instructions that come with are quite clear on how to correctly install the hard drives into that bay. Just wondering if there is a link for your above post number 6. Cheers, Drew. Well, the good news is that we have found a very elegant solution for installing 3. Hi Tony, the washers could certainly help in a pinch.

Wed Nov 01, 8: Instead, I use an external Blue-Ray recorder-player via the Firewire port. It's dependable and it suits my modest needs. Because I don't use the internal optical disk drive I am strongly considering adding SSDs in their place. My goal is to add one SSD to each optical bay. Are they dependable??

Thank you for any thoughtful insight and suggestions. MacPro 3. MacMini 2. Eric Cardenas Moderator.

Yes they are dependable. None except maybe problems with firmware updates from SSD's.

New York Re: That was fast! Thank you for the information. Are they prone to breakage?