Okay, it's not an actual product, and it's not what you'd call elegant, but it works. I bought a 2015 MBP when they were released. On my 2012 Mac mini, I had over 500 GB of content (including photos and iTunes music, but excluding DVD rips and other videos). I couldn't afford a MBP with 1TB of storage, and 512 MB wasn't enough, so I went with the 256 MB base model. For the past couple years, I kept all my data and media files on an external hard drive. The whole point of having a laptop computer, though, is portability and convenience, and having an external drive dangling off to the side was anything but convenient. This was especially true when I was sitting outside on a deck chair. I'd have to use a lap desk with enough room for my MBP and the hard drive. I thought about getting an OWC 1TB internal SSD upgrade, but at $649, I couldn't justify it.
And then it hit me: Velcro! I'd already purchased a 1TB SSD from Crucial for my Mac mini. I replaced that with a 128MB SSD and created a Fusion drive. I put the 1TB SSD into a Sabrent USB 3.0 enclosure, applied a strip of Velcro to the MBP and drive enclosure, and voila! When I need to connect to other peripherals, I pop my MBP into a vertical Henge Dock base station. Again, this may not be pretty (I doubt Jony Ive would approve), but it is functional. A shorter USB cable would help the aesthetics a tad.
And then it hit me: Velcro! I'd already purchased a 1TB SSD from Crucial for my Mac mini. I replaced that with a 128MB SSD and created a Fusion drive. I put the 1TB SSD into a Sabrent USB 3.0 enclosure, applied a strip of Velcro to the MBP and drive enclosure, and voila! When I need to connect to other peripherals, I pop my MBP into a vertical Henge Dock base station. Again, this may not be pretty (I doubt Jony Ive would approve), but it is functional. A shorter USB cable would help the aesthetics a tad.
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