SSD Advice needed on dual-HDD Macbook setup!

[claypigeon101]

Hi guys, what do you think. I'm using my 13" Macbook (2010) pretty much solely as a music and photo workstation. Considering a dual-HD setup and reformat.

Here's what I was thinking:
Remove Macbook's superdrive, use superdrive bay adaptor to allow it to accept a second hard drive.
Use SSD for boot drive in main bay, and current Mac HD for storage, placing that disk in the superdrive bay.
Now-removed CD drive can go in an empty superdrive caddy that USB connects for when I want to burn discs...
SSD would be amazing to run music software from... but I can't afford 500GB SSD and I need the space that would come with keeping the original drive as a slave.

It's either that, or a little cheaper but loads less exciting SSHD hybrid drive for my Mac, and use current HD as external drive to dump all my samples etc on.

What do you think?

 

[Elric]

I've done similar with my MBP 2011. 1TB SSD and a 2TB HDD in the Optical bay.

Works great. The amount of times I've plugged the external dvd in can be counted on one hand.

 

[Verponian]

I had that setup on my old MBP using a Samsung 840 basic 120gb as the boot drive. It was brilliant even though my old MBP only used SATA II. Just note you'll have to download some third party software to enable TRIM support. I'm intending to do the same again with a bigger HDD.

For me the secondary drive eventually died which is probably totally unrelated but it did result in slightly alarming white-screen boot problems (as in MBP couldn't get beyond white screen). It was all fine once I removed the caddy.