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MCE Optibay Alternative CHEAP

i can't be the first person that's come across this...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...34630&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT#ht_2338wt_1167

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Uses all the mounting holes.

Probably the most "legitimate" one yet, since this one actually is specific for the Mac. All the other ones seem to be overpriced caddies that are $13 on eBay.
 
rice rocket said:
Cables? What cables?

And...

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Ordered two today, it'll probably take 1.5 to 2 weeks, like all things from China.
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Like the cable in the first post of this thread. It made me think you needed some sort of cable, but I didn't think that you should. I had seen these on ebay, just hadn't looked into then enough yet. Keep us posted when you get yours.
 
Another satisfied New Mode Electronics customer

Just chiming in to say that I bought the "OBHD9-SATA-SATA-BV" caddy from newmodeus and had zero issues. Was able to reuse the two removable brackets from the Superdrive and the caddy is held down quite snugly.

I'm not really interested in additional speed with an SSD drive...I just wanted more disk space. So now I have my 640GB hdd boot disk in the original location and a 500GB hdd in the caddy. VERY happy.
 
Greg K said:
So about a week or more ago, my Newmodeus OBHC arrived. Only tonight did I get around to fitting the HDD into it.

I bought a 2.5" 320GB SATA HDD. I removed the top of the OBHC (I order a PATA one because I have a 2007 SR MBP 3,1 and because of this comment).

I went to fit my HDD but I can't because the internal interface is PATA. I understand that I need a PATA caddy because the external interface is PATA but in my naivety I thought I could still install a SATA HDD.

I guess I have a SATA drive to eBay and have to buy a PATA HDD to go in my OBHC?
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I you look at this Newmodeus catalog, you'll need the last model on this list (SATA hdd & PATA caddy connector). Try to exchange the one you ordered.
 
If I move my current Mac HDD to the optibay, then install the new HDD in the original HDD location, will I run into issues booting up? Even if I do a new install of OSX on the new HDD, so both have OSX installed on both of them?
 
Greg K said:
Thanks, I actually went ahead and ordered a WD Scorpio Blue PATA 320GB since writing this post but it's not arrived yet.
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Any reason you went with a PATA hdd instead of just buying the correct caddy? (seems that would be the cheaper route since you already had a SATA hdd)
 
hi,

i bought this to install my stock HDD from my 4.1 MBP (late 2008) in my optical bay. I know it's a sata conn going to my MBP but i bought the pata version of this item (did'nt see it right away in their ebaystore) and it installed flawlessly, the HDD is spinning and all but OS X doesnt see it, not in Finder and not in DiskUtility. I tried another HDD i had lying around here but same result. I reinstalled OS X on the SSD in my MBP's harddrivebay but still no luck.

Any advice?
 
jjk454ss said:
If I move my current Mac HDD to the optibay, then install the new HDD in the original HDD location, will I run into issues booting up? Even if I do a new install of OSX on the new HDD, so both have OSX installed on both of them?
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No need to have OSX on both drives. Just make sure you install your boot disk on the HDD bay and the secondary drive on the optical caddy.
 
rgarjr said:
No need to have OSX on both drives. Just make sure you install your boot disk on the HDD bay and the secondary drive on the optical caddy.
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Yeah, I know I don't need OSX on both, I'm just wondering if I will run into problems having it on both. Thanks for the reply. I was going to install the new hdd, install OSX on it, the transfer what I need from the old HDD in the optibay, the format the old one later. I just didn't know what the computer would do when I try to boot up and there are 2 HDD's with the OS installed.
 
iMav said:
Any reason you went with a PATA hdd instead of just buying the correct caddy? (seems that would be the cheaper route since you already had a SATA hdd)
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I didn't know I could get a caddy with SATA to PATA so bought a PATA drive. It's arrived this morning so I'll return it and talk to NewmodeUS about exchanging my caddy - I'm based in the UK though so this will probably take around a month with delivery times.
 
milton.sheaf said:
Man that's ugly hack. wires and electrical tape everywhere. I'd rather buy the optibay.
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Who cares if it's ugly... do you go around and show people the inside of your notebook??? I sure don't. I'm thinking about this hack for my 15" MBP. I have a 30gb OCZ vertex sitting around that would make a nice boot drive... then throw the original HDD in the superdrive bay and that makes the perfect MBP!
 
This is my mod... A cheap one... about 12$.


This is the caddy that Completing had. For a link to buy it go to post #389
 
I hate asking questions that I know have been asked already but I have read this whole thread front to back 3 times and im not rereading it again...

Does anyone have any links to cases that fit the MBP superdrive? I know MCE sold them but I cant seem to find them on there site for sale anymore. A decent external drive is around 70 bucks on new egg. If I can get just a case for around 30 or 40 for my stock superdrive that would be great.

Again, Sorry for the redundancy. I just cant re read this thread again...
 
I installed my cheapo bay but I have an issue at bootup.

When I power on, it should immediately boot into Windows, but the Apple logo shows up and turns into a stop sign and repeats. However, if I hold Option and choose either OSX or Windows manually, there are no issues. What do I have to do to fix this?

I have my boot drive in the primary HD location and my secondary drive in my optibay location.
 
Paul B said:
I installed my cheapo bay but I have an issue at bootup.

When I power on, it should immediately boot into Windows, but the Apple logo shows up and turns into a stop sign and repeats. However, if I hold Option and choose either OSX or Windows manually, there are no issues. What do I have to do to fix this?

I have my boot drive in the primary HD location and my secondary drive in my optibay location.
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I'm using rEFIt to boot into windows or macOSX. My OSX is on the primary bay and my windows is on the optical bay HDD. Works great. But I'll reinstall windows on the primary HDD.
 
i will do a video of all of the optibay solutions , installations and complete solutions to problems you can run in to,

i will have it done in mid january.
 
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