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The described question is what I have done with my 2011 MBP
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I have a 2011 MBP 13" with SSD and HDD attached into SuperDrive with LMP Disk Doubler (http://www.mzone.sk/disk-doubler-3653)
Overheating - Didn't notice any overheating.
Performance issues - Works great. Made symbolic links to SSD home dir
Battery life - Maybe an overall 5-10min decrease.
Warranty status - I was in an App Store
Weight increase - No
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I can confirm that for the MBP Apple does not have a problem with users changing the drives. It does NOT void the warrantee.
My experience: I have replaced the disk drive with a 512G SSD and replaced the optical drive with a 1TB disk drive. I suspect that airflow is impacted as I feel that I run a bit hotter than before but I'm not really sure.
Battery ...
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I have a mid-2010 Mac mini, and a new CD became stuck in the optical drive after importing its tracks to iTunes. The Mac software was telling the drive to eject the disk, and I could hear it trying, but the disk would not come out of the drive slot. Something was blocking it. It was clearly a mechanical problem, and something inside was blocking the disk ...
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Yes, this should work perfectly well. Almost all USB optical drives use standard drivers, so just about any one should work just fine with your MacBook Pro.
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I just had this problem with my 17" mbp early 2009.
ODD was blocked like there was disc already in, but of course there wasn't.
Tried many times SMC & PRAM reset and Force shutdown. Sometimes the drive clicked and I managed to insert one disc, which was read just fine.
But after ejecting it, the block was again there.
Then googled some more and typed ...
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