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Add a second hard drive to your MacBook

post #1 of 11
1/5/07 at 4:43pm
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post #2 of 11
1/5/07 at 5:24pm
Kinda counter productive tho right? I mean...why not just get an external notebook drive?

Great find tho Laura.
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post #3 of 11
1/5/07 at 5:29pm
i dont think id ever put that in my mbp, let alone a mb.

no need.
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post #4 of 11
1/6/07 at 2:22pm
I'd do it if I could put Windows on one and OS X on the other.
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post #5 of 11
1/6/07 at 9:10pm
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Originally Posted by kgeier82
i dont think id ever put that in my mbp, let alone a mb.

no need.

as noted in the link, it's more of a pro solution. one of the biggest slow downs on big projects is the prospect of reading and writing to and from the same physical drive. this would be a nice solution for someone who wants that function along with mobility.
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post #6 of 11
1/6/07 at 10:43pm
this is how i think about it.

since its not a standard mac config, raid may not even work. and if that doesnt work, to me, there is really no point in a second disk.

i use my rom drive too much to part with it anyways, but it is a cool idea, but like you say, pointless to most.
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post #7 of 11
1/6/07 at 11:16pm
RAID should work just fine. The only thing is that I believe both the hard drive and optical drive are connected to the same IDE bus and just like on a desktop that will hinder raid performance.
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post #8 of 11
1/7/07 at 3:11am
i thought it was all SATA in the new macs?

if so, that'd mean they'd all get their own connection.
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post #9 of 11
1/7/07 at 5:52am
Duh, that's right.

Though the optical drive is PATA and I don't know if there's another sata connection.

I was thinking of PowerBooks when I wrote my post—probably cause I wrote it on my PowerBook.
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post #10 of 11
1/7/07 at 2:31pm
i think ive seen somewhere, oh yea, in the system profiler... that there were two sata ports, 0, 1. on 0 was the cdrom if im not mistaken....maybe it was on my macbook. the mbp i have now seems to have the cdrom on ata.
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post #11 of 11
1/8/07 at 1:38am
yeh, i don't know that the SATA opticals are really cost effective just yet. in any case, having the main HD on SATA would mean the optical has its own connection regardless of type.
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