Hi I'm fairly new too this but I have a 15-inch early 2011 Macbook Pro.
It has a 2GHz Intel Core i7, 16GB 1333 MHz DDR3, Intel HD Graphics 3000 512 MB, and a 500GB Macintosh HD. I'm trying to upgrade it with an SSD. The SSD I've ordered is Samsung 850 EVO 500GB 2.5-Inch SATA III Internal SSD. I plan to remove the Optical drive and put my old Hard drive in the optical bay with a caddy/adapter, and put the SSD where the Hard drive would be. The main use for the computer is for music editing, recording, and film scoring on Logic Pro X (and maybe play some Starcraft 2). I'm not sure what's the best way to optimize the drives; whether or not to a do RAID 0 or do RAID 1. Mayde use the two drives separately or any other options that would work please let me know. I'm not doing any intense video or photo editing just music. I plan in the future to get more samples of instruments and those take up a decent amount of space. I want to optimize it so Logic runs smoothly and fast without crashing or overloading. I'm also going to use a WD My Passport 4TB Portable External USB 3.0 Hard Drive for Mac to use as my backup drive/time machine. I know that I need to enable TRIM on the SSD but is there anything else I need to know, please let me know. It would be greatly appreciated.
It has a 2GHz Intel Core i7, 16GB 1333 MHz DDR3, Intel HD Graphics 3000 512 MB, and a 500GB Macintosh HD. I'm trying to upgrade it with an SSD. The SSD I've ordered is Samsung 850 EVO 500GB 2.5-Inch SATA III Internal SSD. I plan to remove the Optical drive and put my old Hard drive in the optical bay with a caddy/adapter, and put the SSD where the Hard drive would be. The main use for the computer is for music editing, recording, and film scoring on Logic Pro X (and maybe play some Starcraft 2). I'm not sure what's the best way to optimize the drives; whether or not to a do RAID 0 or do RAID 1. Mayde use the two drives separately or any other options that would work please let me know. I'm not doing any intense video or photo editing just music. I plan in the future to get more samples of instruments and those take up a decent amount of space. I want to optimize it so Logic runs smoothly and fast without crashing or overloading. I'm also going to use a WD My Passport 4TB Portable External USB 3.0 Hard Drive for Mac to use as my backup drive/time machine. I know that I need to enable TRIM on the SSD but is there anything else I need to know, please let me know. It would be greatly appreciated.