I was thinking about replacing my SuperDrive with an 9.5 mm 500 or 750 GB HDD. Just wondering because it is possible now with SATA connectors. Would this void my warranty?
Anything else I'm missing
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Messing with the Super Drive would void the warranty. The only two things I'm aware of that do not affect the warranty are changing the hard-drive and memory sticks. If you do want to swap out the Super Drive with a hard-drive, check out the MCE Optibay. I plan on doing that next year when my warranty runs out.
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Because the back of the laptop is user removable, I don't think that they can tell if the superdrive was removed at any point in time or not. Despite that, if there is a warranty sticker on the gap between the superdrive and the chassis, you are out of luck.
I also believe that Apple will honor the warranty based upon which parts fail. If you have a logic board failure, they're still going to honor the warranty if the person has aftermarket ram or HDD, for example. I don't know if this applies here. -
I don't see why not. Like tmac said, if there's no sticker that'll break when you take out the superdrive, then go for it. And when you do have to send it in for repairs, just put the superdrive back in and they won't be the wiser
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Just make sure you keep the drives and screws and put it back in when you are going to the apple store.
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I replaced mine. Put in SSD + stock HDD. Love it. And no, no stickers or anything is tampered with for them to notice. I kept a little baggy for my screws and have the superdrive in an external case + usb cable.
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Yeah I have replaced mine also. Never use my DVD drive anyways. Very simple install. No stickers, no issues just make sure you careful with the screw heads, and don't strip them take your time and make sure you get a properly fitting screw driver.
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^ayagroup although I had to take off some of it to fit properly. Also google optibay (most expensive option though) or ebay has plenty if you search up optibay or macbook caddy etc etc.
Anybody replace SuperDrive with a HDD
Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by blakek89, Jul 16, 2010.