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MCE Optibay Alternative CHEAP

Ok did a quick google search because i cant remember exact details (its been a while since ive used windows)

Fist thing is to follow this link How to disable SFS and Share disks.

That should get the drive viewable.

Being that its FAt32 it shouldnt be to hard to recover the data.

But in future maybe look at converting to EXT2/3 and sticking the drive on a timemachine or airport as the shared drive, or you could access it using something like this. Access EXT2/3 from Windows

True it would mean that its not sharable with random PCs but then thats not a bad thing :)
 
paintballswimgu said:
Also, can someone please tell me if using one of the ebay optibays will cause problems since you can't screw it down
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If your worried about that just either get some double sided tape or if you can find it double sided Thermal Interface Material (aka T.I.M).

Just stick that onto the non electronic side of your drive and the case and you wont need any screws at all.

The main reason for the bays is for the converter and the fact it doesn't allow the drive to float sideways in the cavity. Other than that its nothing some double sided tape couldn't replace.
 
So what's the consensus on running a SSD and HDD set up? HDD in the stock HDD bay and SSD in the optibay, or vice versa?

What are the issues with running them either way? Sleep? Hibernate? Sorry for the seemingly repeated questions, but I just wanted to confirm/be sure of what I've read in the last 32 pages of this thread.

-Don
 
Don Nguyen said:
So what's the consensus on running a SSD and HDD set up? HDD in the stock HDD bay and SSD in the optibay, or vice versa?

What are the issues with running them either way? Sleep? Hibernate? Sorry for the seemingly repeated questions, but I just wanted to confirm/be sure of what I've read in the last 32 pages of this thread.

-Don
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If you have an SSD in the Stock HDD bay then you can use the Sleep functionality normally. This would be best only if your HDD has a built in free-fall sensor, meaning it doesn't need the one built into the MBP (which is found in the HDD bay).

If you are using a HDD that doesn't have a built in free-fall sensor its recommended to keep it in the HDD bay, and use SSD in the Optibay.

Either way you can boot from SSD, but if you boot from the SSD in the Optibay, your computer will no longer safe-sleep (= hibernate), sleeping will be fine, but if battery runs out entirely, your computer will just die and not preserve itself like it would using safe-sleep.
 
singhjeet29 said:
If you have an SSD in the Stock HDD bay then you can use the Sleep functionality normally. This would be best only if your HDD has a built in free-fall sensor, meaning it doesn't need the one built into the MBP (which is found in the HDD bay).

If you are using a HDD that doesn't have a built in free-fall sensor its recommended to keep it in the HDD bay, and use SSD in the Optibay.

Either way you can boot from SSD, but if you boot from the SSD in the Optibay, your computer will no longer safe-sleep (= hibernate), sleeping will be fine, but if battery runs out entirely, your computer will just die and not preserve itself like it would using safe-sleep.
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Thanks. That makes things very clear.

Looks like the 750gb WD Scorpio Blue I want to use doesn't have the free fall sensor built into it. Seems like there'd be some sort of program out there that would be able to fix the SSD and hibernate issue, no?
 
Don Nguyen said:
Thanks. That makes things very clear.

Looks like the 750gb WD Scorpio Blue I want to use doesn't have the free fall sensor built into it. Seems like there'd be some sort of program out there that would be able to fix the SSD and hibernate issue, no?
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Not that anyones found. Its something deep in the system.

Check out the segate momentus (with a G at the end of the model number) for another option.
 
-AG- said:
If your worried about that just either get some double sided tape or if you can find it double sided Thermal Interface Material (aka T.I.M).

Just stick that onto the non electronic side of your drive and the case and you wont need any screws at all.

The main reason for the bays is for the converter and the fact it doesn't allow the drive to float sideways in the cavity. Other than that its nothing some double sided tape couldn't replace.
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Or if your feeling up to it, dill a hole. There are two screw holes on the bay. The top left fits, the bottom left one is a few milimiters off from where the screw hole in the MBP is. I just drilled a new hole right below the existing one and now it mounts perfectly.
 
melmo said:
I have an old mbp - 2,1 into which I just installed an Intel x25-m SSD and moved the 500GB Seagate HD to a Newmodeus bay.

Sleep works fine if I boot off the SSD which is in the original hard drive location, but if I boot off the HD in the Newmodeus bay I don't seem to be able to wake from sleep.
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I'm currently booting off the SSD in the original HDD location, and waking from sleep, I get the crash

However, I just found out that if I hibernate instead of sleeping, then it works fine...

I've got a newmodeus replacement coming soon, so hopefully that will fix this problem
 
Looking to run a 1TB in my HDD bay and a SSD using an adaptor in my new Macbook Pro 17" 2010.



Can someone please reccomend an adaptor or post the applicable ebay link.
 
lionheartednyhc said:
Or if your feeling up to it, dill a hole. There are two screw holes on the bay. The top left fits, the bottom left one is a few milimiters off from where the screw hole in the MBP is. I just drilled a new hole right below the existing one and now it mounts perfectly.
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thanks for the info. Which bay do you have? The 2010 mbp 15 in. is a sata to sata right?
 
Does newmodus have a optibay replacement that will house a SATA drive for a Macbook Pro 3,1, model a1226. I think this machine has a PATA interface for it's optical drive. So do they make a PATA to SATA optibay replacement? If not, is there an ebay option?
 
calvy said:
Does newmodus have a optibay replacement that will house a SATA drive for a Macbook Pro 3,1, model a1226. I think this machine has a PATA interface for it's optical drive. So do they make a PATA to SATA optibay replacement? If not, is there an ebay option?
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They do, look for the model OBHD9-SATA-NF (nf means no faceplate)

Thats for a 9.5mm SATA drive, fitting a PATA connector
 
xfuzion said:
They do, look for the model OBHD9-SATA-NF (nf means no faceplate)

Thats for a 9.5mm SATA drive, fitting a PATA connector
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Thanks!

Does anyone know, does the PATA to SATA conversion limit speeds of my SSD drive? Might be a good reason for me to throw the stock hard drive in the optibay.
 
Which adapter from newmodeus do you use with a brand new 2010 Macbook Pro 13"? I'm pretty clueless with their guide.
 
calvy said:
Thanks!

Does anyone know, does the PATA to SATA conversion limit speeds of my SSD drive? Might be a good reason for me to throw the stock hard drive in the optibay.
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I'm not sure about the PATA to SATA conversion. I have my SSD in the original HDD spot (SATA). However, for my model (late 2007 MBP), that SATA is limited to 1.5GB. Still very fast though. I imagine that the SATA connection will be faster than the PATA->SATA conversion...
 
orthorim said:
Apple makes a free developer tool called SpinDownHD which can tell you exactly what your hard drives are doing. Install that and check.... Google for it...
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I wish I had stumbled onto this post earlier. All most complete luck that I found it, in fact. I say this because I've spent the last, I don't know, 4 months trying to find a method of selectively spinning down my optibay HD without affecting my current boot SSD. Now, to elaborate, SpindownHD does not allow you to selectively spin down a drive, nor does it distinguish between the boot and the storage devices, but this is a start. Ortho, do you know of any other OS X service, freeware (maybe even cheapware) that I could get to selectively spindown an HD?
 
Intel is planning to release the next gen SSD's at the beginning of 2011.
The major upgrade should be the capacity and the dimension went from 2.5" to 1.8"

Is it possible to fitt 2 SSD's 1.8" in the (optibay mod or something like that) superdrive place to run raid config? is there enough room?

Waiting to upgrade to SSD, because the price is a bit to high now for me.
 
darksnake said:
Intel is planning to release the next gen SSD's at the beginning of 2011.
The major upgrade should be the capacity and the dimension went from 2.5" to 1.8"

Is it possible to fitt 2 SSD's 1.8" in the (optibay mod or something like that) superdrive place to run raid config? is there enough room?

Waiting to upgrade to SSD, because the price is a bit to high now for me.
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wow, that should be cool. We should deffinitly be able to fit two drives in the optibay space if they are only 1.8 in. It would all just depend, on how long they are...etc...etc...

I'm also waiting to upgrade to ssd. I just don't have the cash right now. I put a 7200 rpm 500gb drive in last summer. I'm buying an optibay today, i'm going to throw a 320gb 5400 rpm drive in the optibay.
 
bware189 said:
I wish I had stumbled onto this post earlier. All most complete luck that I found it, in fact. I say this because I've spent the last, I don't know, 4 months trying to find a method of selectively spinning down my optibay HD without affecting my current boot SSD. Now, to elaborate, SpindownHD does not allow you to selectively spin down a drive, nor does it distinguish between the boot and the storage devices, but this is a start. Ortho, do you know of any other OS X service, freeware (maybe even cheapware) that I could get to selectively spindown an HD?
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There is no way to selectively spin down the drive, but this isnt necesary anyways because "spinning down" the SSD obviously has no effect. Although SpindownHD does allow you to choose spindown times, it does not seem to actually stick.

To change the spindown time for reals, you need to open up terminal and enter this

sudo pmset -a disksleep VALUE
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Value being the time (in minutes) to spin down the drive. This works perfectly. Do not worry about "selectively" spinning down drives, or differentiating between boot and storage drives as it does not matter with SSDs

Even though it is set system wide, if you stop using the HDD (for itunes, for example) but are still using your computer the HDD will go to sleep in 4 minutes while not effecting the SSD.
 
paintballswimgu said:
wow, that should be cool. We should deffinitly be able to fit two drives in the optibay space if they are only 1.8 in. It would all just depend, on how long they are...etc...etc...
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Where are you going to get the 3rd SATA connector from?

I'm also waiting to upgrade to ssd. I just don't have the cash right now. I put a 7200 rpm 500gb drive in last summer. I'm buying an optibay today, i'm going to throw a 320gb 5400 rpm drive in the optibay.
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Can you let me know if your ROM enclosure comes with a faceplate/cover? Mine does not and I'm not happy with it.

Cheers,
 
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