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MacBook Pro SSD

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    #2
    Colonel Panic
    Registered Users Posts: 2,019 ✭✭✭Colonel Panic


    No, it's a bracket for a desktop PC.

    What you're looking for is an Optibay and while I think they're easy to replace, I remember you being worried about replacing the RAM in your machine so I dunno...


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    taylorconor95
    Registered Users Posts: 331 ✭✭taylorconor95


    Colonel Panic wrote: »
    I remember you being worried about replacing the RAM in your machine so I dunno...

    Yeah that time I was really more worried about the warranty more than anything... I replaced the RAM with no bother obviously so other than that what brands of these optibays would you recommend?


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    taylorconor95
    Registered Users Posts: 331 ✭✭taylorconor95


    Wow I just went onto the actual optibay website theres no way I'm paying $99 for this thing I thought it would just be a tenner :)

    Any alternatives?


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    #5
    Colonel Panic
    Registered Users Posts: 2,019 ✭✭✭Colonel Panic


    It'll invalidate your warranty if you do any damage. Some of those connectors are pretty flimsy!

    There are plenty of Optibay knock offs on eBay.


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    taylorconor95
    Registered Users Posts: 331 ✭✭taylorconor95


    Hmm I may just leave the HDD out full time and use it as an external if things start filling up


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    Colonel Panic
    Registered Users Posts: 2,019 ✭✭✭Colonel Panic


    Yeah, I didn't bother with an Optibay for my current machine. Just bought the biggest SSD I could afford. I'm not much of a hoarder of files anyway. That said, I'm currently currently looking at around 160GB used including a modest iTunes library, a few Steam games and a Win7 VM.


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    taylorconor95
    Registered Users Posts: 331 ✭✭taylorconor95


    Just as a side note how much space does a VM windows 7 take up?


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    #9
    Colonel Panic
    Registered Users Posts: 2,019 ✭✭✭Colonel Panic


    Mine is around 28GB.


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    taylorconor95
    Registered Users Posts: 331 ✭✭taylorconor95


    Hey if I get this optibay and install it, how is the disk recognized? Is it mounted at boot? Also what if I unmount it to save battery, and only re-mount it when I need it, is that possible?


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    #11
    Colonel Panic
    Registered Users Posts: 2,019 ✭✭✭Colonel Panic


    It shows up as a Serial ATA hard disk and yes you can unmount it if you like.


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    taylorconor95
    Registered Users Posts: 331 ✭✭taylorconor95


    Colonel Panic wrote: »
    It shows up as a Serial ATA hard disk and yes you can unmount it if you like.

    Cool, but would you have to reboot to remount? Surely theres another way of doing that


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    K.O.Kiki
    Registered Users Posts: 18,703 ✭✭✭✭K.O.Kiki


    Why would you even bother unmounting it?


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    #14
    taylorconor95
    Registered Users Posts: 331 ✭✭taylorconor95


    K.O.Kiki wrote: »
    Why would you even bother unmounting it?

    Save battery life


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    Colonel Panic
    Registered Users Posts: 2,019 ✭✭✭Colonel Panic


    Probably not necessary really, but you can remount the drive from Terminal or Disk Utility.


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