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theman

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Jul 26, 2007
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I've popped out my supedrive on a late 2007 MBP. I rarely need the drive, but might in the future if I need to restore my system from time machine, or other rare uses. What's the cheapest way to set up the drive so it can be used as an external drive? There are some cheap adapter cables on amazon, but I'm not sure if those will actually work with the drive.

here's what I'm looking at:

http://www.amazon.com/Drive-Adapter...ternal/dp/B002OV1VJW/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top
 
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I've popped out my supedrive on a late 2007 MBP. I rarely need the drive, but might in the future if I need to restore my system from time machine, or other rare uses. What's the cheapest way to set up the drive so it can be used as an external drive? There are some cheap adapter cables on amazon, but I'm not sure if those will actually work with the drive.

here's what I'm looking at:

http://www.amazon.com/Drive-Adapter...ternal/dp/B002OV1VJW/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top

maybe something like this http://www.ayagroup.com/product.php?productid=18973&cat=328&page=1
 
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I'm actually using the one that Jpalessi suggested, looks pretty decent, the colour matches the MBP and it works great.
 
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