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The following pictures shows how it looks like with all the cables connected. I got power for the two drives off the second Molex power connector, using a Molex-to-SATA-power-splitter (Y cable). I replaced the previously used SATA cable with two longer ones. It will replace the Raptor and is apparently much quieter - plus I might try putting the whole assembly in the top slot of the optical bay, and the DVD-burner in the bottom slot.) (For the time being I'll live with the Raptor's noise, as I'll get the new VelociRaptor as soon as it becomes available. However, the slide-in-bolts touch the metal frame of the 2.5"-to-3.5" adapter, which makes the decoupler useless in terms of noise reduction. There are various ways to combine the 2.5"-to-3.5" adapter, the SSD and the Raptor, and only a few of them fit, and even fewer leave enough clearance for the slide-in-bolts at the bottom of the optical drive bay.
This had to fit into one of the optical bay slots (the lower in my case), which took a bit of trial and error to get right. Because the SSD is a 2.5" device I added a 2.5"-drive to 3.5"-bay adapter into the mix: Fortunately, the X-Swing HD decoupler has holes to attach two hard drives. Here's a picture for comparison:Īs you can see, this was a rather makeshift/temporary way of installation, so I decided to put it into the optical drive bay. The drive is off-center to match the data and power connector location of a regular 3.5" drive. I couldn't use the screws/holes because the 2.5" drive won't fit the 3.5" sled properly. (Performance of the drive can be seen in this article on SSD vs 10,000 RPM WD Raptor/Velociraptor drives.) At first, I installed it in the last hard drive bay: I bought a MemoRight GT SSD (solid state drive). Installing a SSD (Solid State Drive) in a 2008 Mac Pro Adding a SSD (Solid State Drive) in a 2008 Mac Pro
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