You could drop a fast SSD into the optical bay with a Data doubler and leave the original drive in there for large, inexpensive storage. We’ve even established that the 2012 MacBook Pro 15” optical bays will support an OWC 6G SSD without any data loss. Replacing the little-used optical drive in your MacBook Pro with an OWC Data Doubler is nothing new. It’s the optical bay, though, that really opens up possibilities. The bay will handle SATA Revision 3.0’s 6Gb/s speeds just dandily. The hard drive is easily replaced, and replacing it with an OWC 6G SSD is a natural upgrade path for those looking to max out their performance. The real potential here comes, not from the components, but from the space they occupy. Those two components themselves aren’t particularly great the platter-based hard drive is a dog-slow 5400rpm and nobody seems to use their optical drives any more. Though it’s lacking the thinner profile and high-resolution screen, the 2012 MacBook Pros offer two things that the Retina Display model doesn’t which mean everything to performance: an optical drive and a standard SATA hard drive. While the MacBook Pro with Retina Display has been getting a lot of press around here lately, the real unsung hero of WWDC 2012’s new Macs is the MacBook Pro 15”.
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