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hey guys john here with TLD back with part 3 of the fastest macbook pro on the planet upgrade series i know it's been a while since I uploaded part 2 so to quickly recap I'm using a late 2011 15 inch core i7 2.5 gigahertz quad core MacBook Pro I've upgraded the ram from 4 gigs to 16 gigs and replaced the stock hard drive with an ocz 120 gigabyte vertex 3 SSD now today I'll be one up in myself by ripping out the optical drive then throw in a second OCC SSD in its place and then setting them up an insanely fast and utterly delicious raid configuration if you happen to miss part 1 or part 2 you can get rip on those by clicking either one of these annotations and as far as this video goes I'll be using five things a nylon pry tool which is strangely enough also known as a spudger I just sponge all over my nevermind I'll also be using a Phillips double zero screwdriver a Torx t6 screwdriver ii ocz SSD and finally a no w c-- data dealer to house the SSD first thing we're going to do is whip out our spudger and then gently lift the battery connector from the logic board and now we can begin removing the optical drive next we're going to let the two data cables to the right to the optical drive remember to be very gentle with these and then we're gonna toss aside the spudger and whip out the torque screwdriver before we can get to that first screw we'll have to detach this cable right here after that screw is removed we're going to switch to the Phillips screwdriver and remove these two screws here and here next we're going to carefully lift this plastic piece being very cautious not to pull anything out of place and then we're going to switch back to the Torx screwdriver and remove the now exposed screw we have one more screw below that and once that is removed we can now begin to pull out the optical drive with the now-infamous spudger we're going to gently lift the optical drive until we can pull it out with our hands and once that's out we're going to do a little prep work by first attaching the SATA cable and then using the Philips screwdriver to remove these two screws so we can pull out the metal bracket and now it is SSD time first thing we're going to do is align the SATA and power connections on the SSD and then slide it into the data doubler next we're going to secure the SSD in place by installing the two screws on the side and then we're going to screw in the metal bracket we had removed from the optical drive lastly we're going to pop the SATA cable we had removed from the optical drive onto the data doubler and now we can slide the SSD into the MacBook Pro just take your time make sure everything is aligned properly and we're going to go reverse order starting by connecting the data cables from there we have the bottom left-hand screw and remember this is using the torque screwdriver we then have one more coke screw above that and once that is done we can begin securing this plastic piece back in place using the Philips screwdriver here and here now we just have one more torque screw left and once that's in we can reattach this cable back here and finally all we got to do is reconnect the battery connector to the logic board and we can close up the MacBook Pro so now that all the dirty work is done I'll show you guys how to set up a write configuration and we'll start by popping in the line and recovery USB Drive and powering up the MacBook Pro first thing we're going to do is set up the network by entering the whiffy password thumbs up if you guys have seen that commercial and then we're going to select the recovery drive to boot into we're going to want to select Disk Utility and start by formatting each Drive and setting them up for rate so we'll begin with the first SSD by selecting the partition tab one partition and then make sure it's set to the GUI D partition table and then we can hit apply rinse and repeat for the second SSD and then we'll hop over to the raid tab select stripe rate and for those of you guys curious mirrored raid rights to file twice once to each Drive and essentially is a constant real-time backup whereas striped raid splits the file to each drivers one partition speeding up the access time and that's resulting in faster performance once that's all set up all we got to do is selecting newly created raid to install lying on and that is it it should take around 20 minutes or so to install but through the magic of video we are done we can now boot up the MacBook Pro in all of its raid goodness and look at some benchmarks for read speeds I got a mouth-watering 963 megabytes a second and a ridiculous 831 megabytes a second for write speeds in contrast here's what the raid performance looks like versus a single SSD as well as a traditional 7200 rpm hard drive clearly you guys can see a huge performance difference and lastly we'll look at the raid setup tearing through a two gigabyte file duplication as we wrap up the video now there are some risk going with a stripe raid set up due to the fact that since there's two drives as one partition if one of those fails everything fails so for the majority you guys out there I wouldn't necessarily recommend this setup less you just got cash to blow and you want the utmost badass kind of performance out of your system but I would say upgrading to a single SSD is probably one of the best upgrades you can do to your system as far as boot times access times silence is pure performance SSDs hands-down perform better than hard disk drives maybe more of a practical situation for those maybe interested in using the data devil or is to get maybe a 120 gigabyte SSD use it as the boot drive and then add it maybe like a 500 gigabyte or 750 gigabyte hard disk drive as your media and storage based system that way you kind of have the all-in-one best bang for the buck so thank you guys for watching this video thank you guys who were patient with me just been battling a lot of health problems but I got this video out for you guys if you enjoyed it make sure to give it a thumbs up as it does help the channel out I'll have links to everything I use in this video down in the description as well as my Twitter links if you guys have any questions just hit me up on Twitter that is the best way to get in contact with me and then lastly I'll have a few links the best price SSDs in case you guys are interested in upgrading a site if not if you guys haven't subscribed feel free to do so and I will see you guys later