SSD in MBP early 2011 optical drive

i have an i7 macbook pro that has been very tired lately from video editing and photoshop
i have a 500 gb hdd that i want for random files (current hard drive)
i want to run adobe premiere, photoshop and larger files from the ssd
i will be putting the ssd in the optical drive of the MBP, leaving the hdd in its place
how can i leave my old hard drive in and tell my computer to now boot from the new ssd ?
also can i just drag and drop premiere/lightroom/photoshop from current drive into ssd once completed

First off, I would NOT put the SSD in the optical bay - MacBook Pros MUCH prefer to have the boot disk in the hard drive bay - where it's supposed to be. A lot of people have had trouble with trying to boot from a storage device in the opti-bay. It may work for a while, but it usually gives you problems down the road.
So just put the SSD in the standard hard drive bay, put your hard drive in the optical bay and install OS X and all of your apps on your SSD; leaving your HD for storage.
When you install the SSD you can simply hold down the option key to boot from your 'old' drive in the opt-bay, format the SSD using Disk Utility and either clone your HD to your SSD or make a clean start of it and install ML on the SSD and then begin installing your apps on the SSD. If you're getting a 512GB SSD, you may just want to use Carbon Copy Cloner to clone your old drive to the SSD. If your SSD is going to be smaller, just install everything 'fresh'.
No, you can't just drag and drop the Adobe applications. They have tons of auxiliary files and folders that are stored all over your drive.
Oh, and after you have your SSD prepared as a boot disk, you can simply go to System Preferences>Startup Disk and select it as the boot disk.
Call back with any questions...
Clinton

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SSD on MBP early 2011.

Hello to everybody!
I want to upgrade my MBP by installing of a SSD instead of optical drive.
Please help me to choose the best of SSD that fits to my model.
I've read a few test and made a short list of SDD. Here it is:
Plextor PX-256M5P
Corsair CSSD-N240GBGTX_BK
OCZ VTX4-25SAT3_256G
OCZ is the fastest one by tech spec, but I have read somewhere that OCZ SDD's doesn't fit to MBP as well as it kills of MBP's motherboard or something like that.
Is that true?
So please help to chose one of these 3 model or advise me an other model.
Thanx a lot.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

Pesronally, I have and recommend the Crucial m4 series for Mac users. They just 'play well' with Macs and you can update the firmware on a Mac, unlike some other brands with which you need to use a Windows machine to update firmware.
It's not the very fastest drive around - but quite a few of us around here have them and have had no problems with the drives.
If the other models that you mention fit the MacBook Pro form factor, I'm sure that they would work. But I'd take a look at the Crucial m4 256GB SSD - the price/performance ratio is very good.
Go to the Crucial site and look around. You can usually save a few dollars by shopping at Amazon, Newegg, etc.
Good luck,
Clinton

How much noise should the hard drive make on a MBP early 2011?

Had since May/June last year i5 13" and only since I applied all updates few weeks ago it seems to be louder than it was before?
It sounds like a fan but isn't... obviously. Right hand side of track pad, and covering it, in fact just touching it dampens it to barely audible. Is that normal or has something gone a bit weird? A constant fan noise, which isn't the fan is now there permanently.

How much noise should the hard drive make on a MBP early 2011?
None.
The machine should only make noise if the Superdrive is being used or the CPU's heavily used, going by my Early 2011 17".
It sounds like a fan but isn't... obviously. Right hand side of track pad, and covering it, in fact just touching it dampens it to barely audible. Is that normal or has something gone a bit weird? A constant fan noise, which isn't the fan is now there permanently.
It's possible it wasn't installed correctly and/or the case is slightly off so it's resonating the hard drive vibrations.
Make sure you have a internet connection (don't move) and reboot the machine holding the d key down like forever and Hardware Test will run.
Backup your data off the machine, if the hard drive dies under 1 year or three years with Applecare, then go get a new one. else you can replace it yourself with a better one and not void your warranty if you don't break anything doing so. Add more RAM while your at it.
http://eshop.macsales.com/installvideos/
As you know Mac's are made by hand by young Chinese women working 12 hour shifts performing the same function every 7 seconds for only $1.20 a hour. They live 7 to a box room and have to pay 70¢ a meal.
All in all I would say they are very tired, and it's possilbe a few defects made it to your machine.

After EFI Firmware update 2.3, MBP Early 2011 will not boot. During restart it all went wrong please help!

Hello,
I've done an ample amount of Internet research to find an answer to this problem however nothing yet found is quite like this. I will start from the beginning.
I am traveling through Europe, and I normally live in California. When I arrived in Ireland my MBP early 2011 15 inch, began crashing constantly when I had several tabs open on Chrome and maybe one or two low CPU/Memory using applications, nothing the 8gb RAM &750gb hard drive can't normally handle. Thus I began trouble shooting. I ran disk utility once started up and repaired both disk and permissions. Still crashing. It didn't seem like it had anything to do with a kernel panic shut down, I never would receive the usual message indicating so. After that I did an SMC reset. It was still crashing. I then upgraded the OSX from 10.8 to 10.8.4 believing it could help. It did momentarily, but then crash again. (When it crashes screen goes black suddenly and upon pressing power button does a regular boot on my single partition). I decided attempting to repair using the Internet recovery option but it appeared my MBP had not yet have it installed, so I downloaded from Apple and began installing. Here I made a mistake, I unplugged the power source as it was restarting. When the gray screen and apple appeared, the loading bar shows up as it says it will when installing the update, but when the bar fully loads it crashes every time. I've tried starting in safe mode, which then loads but never goes further (I let it stand for two hours such as that and nothing). Then I decided to allow the MBP to fully charge overnight to give it time and charge. This morning the problem has stayed the same, even with power source plugged in. Please help I need this to work.
Thank you and please ask any questions!

Your constant crashing problem is probably some type of hardware fault which no update can fix. Doing the 10.8.4 update and then the firmware update just caused further problems. you need to take thr system to a apple store to be diagnosed and fixed if cost effective.

Im making a photo slide show using imovie. how will i make a dvd copy that can play in both pc and dvd player. i dont have an idvd anymore. m using a mbp early 2011 osx 10.8.5

im making a photo slide show using imovie. how will i make a dvd copy that can play in both pc and dvd player. i dont have an idvd anymore. m using a mbp early 2011 osx 10.8.5.
after making the photo slide show, i clicked share>export movie. after which i burned using toast. the file became a .mov. i tried playing it in my mac and it worked. my fear now is will it also play in a regular dvd?... i read from google that mov files won't run in dvd players. what format should i convert it to so it'll play in a dvd player. can you suggest a faster way i can burn my projects for it takes me almost an hour to export. im going to make 28 slideshows for my kids in school. *=( if i need to do this process 28 times, i may not be able to finish it on time. please suggest a software or an alternative as to how i should do this... m more comfortable using imovie than iphoto. thanks and i hope to hear from someone soon *=j

Thank you QuickTimeKirk...used toast to burn project... my project was in .mov, i tried to play it a dvd player, it did play... will try again tomorrow using another dvd player just to be sure it'll will really work with dvd players. thank you again for your reply *=)

SD card reader is not working in my MBP early 2011. Is there any solution?

SD card reader is not working in my MBP early 2011. Is there any solution?

on my macbook iphoto didn't recognise my camera or card reader after upgrading to iphoto '11,
Evenutally I went to an application called Image Capture which I seem to have already. This read the camera contents. I selected the images I wanted and then imported them into iphoto which was one of the options given. It worked. God knows why one has to go through two steps. But I'm feeling pretty triumphant. This may help you if you haven't already sorted it.

1080p render for mbp early 2011?

im going to get into the youtube video makeing business with an intensity extreme capture card which connect to my macbook pro through thunderbolt
i remember once i used to render a few videos i think it was imovie does anyone know the early mbp early 2011 is capable to render a 1080p video because i remember i once rendered a few videos in imovie and it owuldnt let me pick 1080p is it because mbp early 2011 cant handle it or something?

Well, I ran the progran anyway, TechTool that is and looked for updates within the program and it said I was running the latest version 3.1.3. I ran the program and it crashed. I was the crash test dummy.
JAW

Downloading ML over 80 min's......how long will this go on??? MBP early 2011 running 10.7.3

downloading ML over 80 min's......how long will this go on??? MBP early 2011 running 10.7.3

I have a late 2009 MBP and I have noticed that just surfing the internet has caused the machine to run 20-30 degrees hotter. It used to hover around 40C (according to iStat...obviously it would climb under a load) when I was bumming around the net (no videos) and now it is anywhere between 60-70C doing the same stuff. I didn't really notice it till the other day when all I was doing was working on some bash scripts so at that point it was under very little load and it just seemed quite warm.

I have a mbp early 2011 and mountain lion will not download

hi there,
i'm trying to update osx 10.7.4 and it just hangs on "waiting" for hours and does nothing, i went into the purchases section in app store and it says "An error has occured" in red letter, i click teh download button again and it does abosultley nothing.... and ideas would be greatly appreciated ps i have a 15" mbp early 2011 if that helps

Your issue downloading Mountain Lion appears to have been answered HERE. I'm betting you are both running Antivirus.

Can I use an Early 2011 cloned drive into a Late 2011 MBP A1278?

Will be upgrading and selling the early 2011 A1278 MBP 13". Instead of reinstalling everything, I have created a clone of the older drive onto a spare 320GB drive. Can I just pop the clone drive into the new MBP 13" when I get it?

No boot from the old drive that you cloned Lion to connected to the New system by USB. What program are you using to clone?
Then run the cloning software and clone from externalk to the internal. Also if you used Dusk Utility to do the cloning you can boot the new system from the included Recovery HD partition, hold down Command+r keys, and run Disk Utility from there to clone from external to internal.
I wouldn't boot from the SL disc to clone Lion. Use the Recovery HD.
Did that system come with Lion or Snow Leopard? If Snow Leopard you should not include Lion on the drive when selling it. Also you should give the new owner the SL and Applications discs that came with that system (BUT FIRST make a copy or DMG file of both of them).
Apple will not recognize the new owner with Lion installed. It is tied to your Apple ID. It is up to the new owner to update to Lion if he want to use that OS. Yes you just lost $29.

What is the largest HDD that is compatible with a MBP early 2011 15"?

My current storage setup is one 256 GB SSD as the boot drive in the original location for the hard drive. I then removed the SuperDrive and put my original hard drive in an optibay. I have since run out of storage (lots of audio samples etc.) and I'm looking at a 3TB internal hard drive. Or around that size anyway.
Can anyone advise as to what the maximum capacity for my laptop is?
Thanks.

Have a look at this article to give you an idea on your negotiated link speed when you install a hard drive in your optical drive bay.
installing a SATA III hard drive will not give you any issues - it might give you a negotiated link speed of 3GB/s instead of 6GB/s.
http://blog.macsales.com/10433-macbook-pro-2011-models-and-sata-3-0-6-0gbs-updat e-5272011

I had to restore my MBP early 2011 and when i reinstalled lion i didnt have Ilife 11 how can i get it back?

Ok more deatails, i bought a MBP 13' early 2011 model and it came it ilife 2011 on it. when i upgraded to lion it was there and then one day the hard drive gave out on me so i had to erase it completely and reinstall lion. when i did that i didnt have i life 2011 as expected so how can i get that back? would the Application install disc that came in the box work?

You can most certainly try running the bundled app installer off the 10.6 machine specific disks, however I think it's going to barf on you.
You then use Pacifist from CharlesSoft to extract your god given right to free iLife and place it back onto your 10.7 drive, run the update and it should get updated.

AGC GPU REGISTER RESTORE FAILED - MBP Early 2011

I have been using my MacBook pro 15 inch early 2011. last week i had formatted the same and did full restore from backup. ever since the restore i see the following message similar to Blue screen where my pc gets restarted.
Kindly help how do i solve the same. I also did the hardware test and no problems in hardware all is found ok.
Anonymous UUID:       3D84930F-A031-A48E-EB08-BDEBEB64AD9D
Sat Sep 27 15:04:52 2014
panic(cpu 0 caller 0xffffff7fae8edeaa): "AGC GPU REGISTER RESTORE FAILED : rdar://7254528, VendorID invalid"@/SourceCache/AppleGraphicsControl/AppleGraphicsControl-3.6.22/src/Appl eMuxControl/kext/AGCPowerManagement.cpp:1114
Backtrace (CPU 0), Frame : Return Address
0xffffff80c6aa3de0 : 0xffffff802ca22f79
0xffffff80c6aa3e60 : 0xffffff7fae8edeaa
0xffffff80c6aa3ea0 : 0xffffff7fae8f0650
0xffffff80c6aa3ec0 : 0xffffff802ceb359b
0xffffff80c6aa3f20 : 0xffffff802ca4a20a
0xffffff80c6aa3fb0 : 0xffffff802cad7607
      Kernel Extensions in backtrace:
         com.apple.driver.AppleMuxControl(3.6.22)[32862231-50BC-3AF6-87A2-703321AE4F90]@ 0xffffff7fae8e2000->0xffffff7fae8f5fff
            dependency: com.apple.driver.AppleGraphicsControl(3.6.22)[AA46D551-BE0F-33DA-93A3-8F46197BB 36F]@0xffffff7fae8c9000
            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOACPIFamily(1.4)[045D5D6F-AD1E-36DB-A249-A346E2B48E54]@0xfffff f7fad32c000
            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.9)[2852ACFE-FD28-3C37-9B39-885201BB8D25]@0xffffff 7fad0bf000
            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(2.4.1)[75D81741-64C1-3941-ADFA-9D6B6C434EE4]@0 xffffff7fad901000
            dependency: com.apple.driver.AppleBacklightExpert(1.0.4)[80899285-3952-30DA-A0F9-357C51E104 CF]@0xffffff7fae8dd000
BSD process name corresponding to current thread: kernel_task
Mac OS version:
13F34
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 13.4.0: Sun Aug 17 19:50:11 PDT 2014; root:xnu-2422.115.4~1/RELEASE_X86_64
Kernel UUID: 9477416E-7BCA-3679-AF97-E1EAAD3DD5A0
Kernel slide:     0x000000002c800000
Kernel text base: 0xffffff802ca00000
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Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 3000, Intel HD Graphics 3000, Built-In, 384 MB
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Make a "Genius" appointment at an Apple Store, or go to another authorized service provider. You may have to leave the machine there for several days.
Print the first page of the panic report and bring it with you.
Back up all data on the internal drive(s) before you hand over your computer to anyone. There are ways to back up a computer that isn't fully functional—ask if you need guidance.
If privacy is a concern, erase the data partition(s) with the option to write zeros* (do this only if you have at least two complete, independent backups, and you know how to restore to an empty drive from any of them.) Don’t erase the recovery partition, if present.
Keeping your confidential data secure during hardware repair
Apple also recommends that you deauthorize a device in the iTunes Store before having it serviced.
*An SSD doesn't need to be zeroed.

How can I install Windows 7 on a Retina MBP with no optical drive?

I'd like to install Windows 7 on a Retina MacBook Pro via Boot Camp.
However, the only distribution of Windows I'm aware of is on a physical disk.
My MBP doesn't have an optical drive. It can't read disks like that.
I'm hoping there's some kind of workaround here, because I'd hate to spend money on an external optical drive I'm only going to use once.
Does Microsoft offer a way to buy Windows 7 via a download?
If so, can I then copy the downloaded installer that onto an external USB hard drive and install from there?
Or is the only option to buy an external optical drive? (If that's the case, any guidance on which one to buy -- can I get away with a generic one or do I need to shell out $80 for Apple's "Superdrive?")
I actually have another Mac that does have an optical drive. Could that help me out somehow?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!

You can follow the instructions here to copy your installation disc over to a USB jump drive: http://lifehacker.com/5347382/wintoflash-turns-your-windows-installation-dvd-int o-a-usb+based-installer

MBP early 2011 battery life

I have the early 2011 release of the 17" MBP (8gig ram, 2.2ghz quad i7, 500 gig harddrive) and it seems like the battery life has just been cut inhalf. It lasts me about 3 and a half hours from just general use. Is my battery faulty? Really appriciate any feed back

That battery looks pretty good, capacity is really strong for so many charge cycles, but the voltage looks low, would expect it to be in the 11.5 to 12.5 volt range and you are showing 11.27 volts. A little low but not critical.
How have you been handling that battery with respect to discharge/charge? While Apple has a lot of material talking about periodic deep discharge to shutdown and charge as a means of calibrating the battery, in reality that does not calibrate the battery itself. That only serves to calibrate the charge reporting circuitry built in to Lithium-technology batteries. In fact, the Battery University, an independent group testing batteries, has shown that repeated deep discharge behavior significantly shortens Lithium battery lifetimes. The optimum balance of use (discharge) and line-connection seems to be around 50% discharge before charge. Deeper reduces cycle life very fast, lower discharge makes for a very high cycle life but why buy a portable?
Anyway, just some thoughts. Use of high intensity applications, including other operating systems, looks like it is degrading the charge time but the battery itself looks healthy.
Just keep using it, perhaps try not discharging below 50% for a while and see how it behaves for your.

SSD in MBP early 2011 optical drive

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