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OWC Data Doubler Optical Bay Hard Drive/SSD Mounting Solution Reviews

5 Rating 30 Reviews
Great product, does just what it says on the tin. My mac is now a lot faster thanks to it! Not a criticism of this product but just be very careful when removing the piece in your macbook with the airport antennas on it - those screws are notoriously tight and I stripped the screw. I managed to get it off by jamming a rubber band into the hole then used the screwdriver to turn it out.
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Posted 11 years ago
This data doubler was easy to install once you have covered the instructions and are familiar with what to do. Placing the MacBook Pro's super drive in an external hard case was to set the slave drive to an SSD and use the original HDD for what ever, An excellent upgrade.
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Posted 11 years ago
This simple little device was pretty easy to install (you need to be delicate with some steps) but the instructions are thorough and with pictures for every Mac compatible. What is allows you to do by removing the super drive in my case was to set the slave drive to a SSD and use the original HDD as a secondary for time machine or if you wanted you could use it for storage or scratch disk etc. Amazing upgrade by the time you've done gone to a startup disk as SSD you get immediate results that will blow you away!
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Posted 11 years ago
Great price and easy to install. An excellent upgrade for your old mac.
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Posted 11 years ago
I was going to buy the "other" Drive Support for my MBP and a friend said to get a Data Doubler. I haven't looked back. This thing is easy to install, and the SSD is even easier to install. Once you have this in your Mac, your read and write speeds won't be compromised and you won't look back. I haven't and now that i have a SSD as my Startup Disk, i look at 8 seconds and then PS CS6, Pixlemator, Aperture, Adobe Illustrator and After Affects are fighting to be the first to open . . . Don't waste your money on anything other than a OWC Data Doubler and SSD because you will be saying to yourself, like you did when you moved to Mac OS X, "Why didn't i do this earlier" :)
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Posted 12 years ago
This is the best upgrade you could ever got for your Macbook. Got a 240GB SSD with it and I now have the best of booth world, storage capacity and speed. Thanks Macfixit.
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Posted 12 years ago