Build at 1TB MacBook

*[Admin]* osborn4 · #1 (**permalink**) Wednesday, May 14th, 2008, 12:47 PM

For those of you looking for plenty of hard drive space on your MacBook"

Build at 1TB MacBook

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MCE Technologies has a dual 500GB hard disk drive kit to produce 1TB MacBooks by using the SuperDrive optical disk drive bay.

The kit uses two 2.5-inch drives spinning at 5,400 or 7,200rpm and with capacities of 100, 120, 160, 250 or 500GB. One replaces the standard drive whilst the other replaces the SuperDrive optical disk drive in its bay. It connects to the MacBook's internal ATA bus and is seen by the Mac OS X operating system as just another hard drive which can be managed with Apple's Disk Utility.

The second drive can be treated as extra storage, set up as a RAID 0 (striping) or 1 (mirroring) array with the first drive, dedicated to Windows if you use Parallels or Fusion, or be a bootable copy of the primary drive by using the included BounceBack software.

*[Admin]* skstarkiller · #2 (**permalink**) Wednesday, May 14th, 2008, 12:50 PM

But what am I to do about my optical drive?

*[Admin]* osborn4 · #3 (**permalink**) Wednesday, May 14th, 2008, 01:05 PM

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Originally Posted by skstarkiller

But what am I to do about my optical drive?

Rip everything on a different machine and copy it over.

Or use a USB or Firewire optical.

*[Admin]* danroth · #4 (**permalink**) Wednesday, May 14th, 2008, 01:21 PM

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Originally Posted by osborn4

Or use a USB or Firewire optical.

Then why not just use an external hard drive?

**cmchamp** · #5 (**permalink**) Wednesday, May 14th, 2008, 01:48 PM

MCE can provide an external case for the SuperDrive (optical) as an option. I also believe this is for the 17" model only.
You can also set it up as a 500GB RAID 1.
C.

*[Admin]* osborn4 · #6 (**permalink**) Wednesday, May 14th, 2008, 02:13 PM

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Originally Posted by danroth

Then why not just use an external hard drive?

I guess it would depend on which you wanted to take with you on a regular basis.

John at SBC · #7 (**permalink**) Wednesday, May 14th, 2008, 05:39 PM

Holy battery killer batman

**brenthomer** · #8 (**permalink**) Tuesday, May 20th, 2008, 06:04 PM

If I had the guts to mess up my powerbook I would definitely want that. I would just have an external optical. I rarely use the optical, but I would love to use a raid 0 every day

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