Optibay questions...

[XX55XX]

I have a June 2009 13-inch MacBook Pro which I bought in August of 2009. I bought the base model with 2GB of RAM. Two years later, I am fancying an upgrade (and shelved my original idea of moving to a Thinkpad in the process).

My plans are:

1. Buy a 2x2GB DDR3 RAM kit (don't really need 8GB).
2. Buy an Intel 320 Series 80GB SSD.
3. Buy a Western Digital 320GB Scorpio Black HDD (for games and other storage).
4. Buy a cheap Optibay on Ebay for $20.

However, I have been reading these forums and some people claim that Optibays have fried their drives. Are these things reliable/good? I don't want to buy several hundred dollars for parts and realize that they might not work in the long run.

Are these things reliable? Or was that simply an isolated incident?

 

[rev.b]

I definitely would get the 8Gb and larger SSD and hdd, but if these ones fit you...

I just want to share my experience with those el-cheapo "optibay's". It didn't fry my hard drive and it did work as advertised, but:
- The disk was noisy and with a lot of vibrations
- Sleep won't worked properly - disk was always spinning up and down and made click noises.

I ended up buying a real MCE optibay, and those issues went away. Same disk, same MBP.

I think most of the complains about "optibay" problems simply aren't based on the real optibay product.