Internal RAID

In our previous post we decried the lack of RAIDed computers offered by Apple. We noted that except for the Mac Pro, none of Apple’s models can hold a second hard dive. Although RAID can be used for performance enhancement, our interest is in not losing the operating system configuration, which we just did when our iMac disk died and TimeMachine failed to recover the old configuration to the new disk we installed.

MCE OptiBay

We recently discovered the MCE OptiBay. This allows you to convert a Macbook’s optical drive into a second hard drive location. This is excactly what we were looking for. Interesting we learned from MCE that Apple actually went backwards on its design, as previous Mac laptops used to have the ability to switch out the optical drive for a hard disk naturally.

While we have been busily shipping SuperDrive upgrades for the PowerBook G4 for many years we’ve continued to hear from customers wishing for more internal hard drive space… yearning for the old days when the optical drive was removable so they can put a hard drive in its place.

We think this is a great idea, however we were not able to find it anywhere on-line. If anyone knows where it can be found, please comment on this post.