HacBook Pro 2012

[MainManStrider]

Hi everyone,

This is my first time posting on this forum and its mainly because i am stuck.

 

Recently I have acquired a MacBook Pro 2012 i5 for dirt cheap. I was offered it and I am always up to explore something new. I am a computer science student with a major in security for some background. 

 

I've been researching how to make it better and one thing i saw was that i can swap the optical drive with a second ssd after replacing the 500GB HDD and put it into raid 0 for more speed and bump the memory up to 16gb 1600MHz. now the part im stuck at is that mac uses APFS file system and to dual boot id have to partition the drives to be half APFS and NTFS. Can i then still have them in raid if the drives are partitioned to two different formats?

 

I believe i could but i am not certain. I plan to document the entire journey. (I think it would be informative for others and just be interesting as well as give me something to do during covid)

 

My concern is that:

A) I wouldn't then be able to put the drives into an array once each has two 500GB formats.

B) If I was successful in doing the raid that if i ever was to need to reset one of the two operating systems (either from losing control of malware I'm examining or just having a brain fart) I would have to reset both machines?

 

I think its an interesting concept but I could use some insight if anyone has any. Of course with this being a 2012 system price does have a factor in what i do. I so far have spent $200 between the mac itself and the first SSD. If I was to complete this build after taxes I would be at $600.88 CAD

 

Thanks, for anything you can tell me.