Since you can boot from either location via the Startup Disk pref pane, just put the SSD in the optibay and boot from there. Once I have a good working install on the SSD can I simply drag and drop ...

Upgrading a computer's boot drive from a traditional hard drive to an SSD is one of the single best performance upgrades ever. But, if you're like many of us, when you did it SSDs were expensive, and ...