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 ...

Although data hoarders tend to shy away from SSDs due to their limited write cycles and terrible long-term storage feasibility, these ultra-fast drives serve as amazing boot drives for consumer PCs ...

So, a recent issue with a fusion drive in a 2012 iMac resulted in a loooong but generally successful, period of data recovery, and I was able to create a new fusion drive with the same HW. The SATA HD ...