Second internal HD

[kremer4]

Hmm, now I can afford a 128GB SSD hard drive for booting and make my 500GB the second hard drive... Do you think this is a sacrafice worth making

http://www.mcetech.com/optibay/

 

[DoFoT9]

haha you sure you wanna do that?? loose access to your superdrive (in the sense that its external).

it would be nice to have though, but if your just going to have the OS on the SSD then why dont you just settle for a cheaper 32gb/16gb one??

 

[kremer4]

haha you sure you wanna do that?? loose access to your superdrive (in the sense that its external).

it would be nice to have though, but if your just going to have the OS on the SSD then why dont you just settle for a cheaper 32gb/16gb one??

I'd wanna keep my iphoto gallery (17GB right now, I have 2 kids) on the SSD. I would use the second drive for bootcamp (Vista x64, 120GB paritition) and the rest an extra partition for Leopard.

So far I have never used the CD drive outside of my house so I don't think that would be an issue. Supposedly this also shaves a 1/4 lb of the laptop weight.

Hmm, I might try it

 

[Vanarak19]

I'd wanna keep my iphoto gallery (17GB right now, I have 2 kids) on the SSD. I would use the second drive for bootcamp (Vista x64, 120GB paritition) and the rest an extra partition for Leopard.

So far I have never used the CD drive outside of my house so I don't think that would be an issue. Hmm, I might try it.

Will bootcamp even install on a second drive? If you dont use your SD, and want more space go for it.

Me personally, I dont think its worth the money. Not to mention most times Im not mobile, so I just hook up the 3TB externals

 

[DoFoT9]

I'd wanna keep my iphoto gallery (17GB right now, I have 2 kids) on the SSD. I would use the second drive for bootcamp (Vista x64, 120GB paritition) and the rest an extra partition for Leopard.

So far I have never used the CD drive outside of my house so I don't think that would be an issue. Supposed this also shaves a 1/4 lb of the laptop weight.

Hmm, I might try it

im actually pretty jealous. my dvd drive doesnt work so its just wasted space. can you fit a laptop HD into it haha??

go for it!

 

[kremer4]

Will bootcamp even install on a second drive? If you dont use your SD, and want more space go for it.

Me personally, I dont think its worth the money. Not to mention most times Im not mobile, so I just hook up the 3TB externals

Yeah bootcamp will work on the second drive. You can even make it your primary boot drive. But your right it is alot of money. Unless I can get a 128GB SSD for a good deal I wouldn't go for it.

 

[denny14]

Does this make sense for RAID1?

Would this enable setting up the two disks in a RAID 1 manner? That is, a mirror of each other.
How would performance be impacted?

Very interesting I think.

 

[be300test]

wow, i never thought of checking this site for unibody support.

thanks op!

ill be putting 500gb in

ssd + hdd

never use superdrive anyway

 

[DoFoT9]

Would this enable setting up the two disks in a RAID 1 manner? That is, a mirror of each other.
How would performance be impacted?

Very interesting I think.

if you have both as identical drives then i guess you could. performance wouldnt be that impacted, but power consumption would be (especially if they are both the spinning HDs)

 

[denny14]

That makes sense to me. I am new to mac. I guess the OS can be configured to handle RAID like this? When one of the drives fails, do you get a notice? When you have to replace one, how do you make it a mirror? Is this an automatic thing?

 

[DoFoT9]

That makes sense to me. I am new to mac. I guess the OS can be configured to handle RAID like this? When one of the drives fails, do you get a notice? When you have to replace one, how do you make it a mirror? Is this an automatic thing?

yes the OS can handle it. when you install leopard onto it you can setup the RAID (software RAID only on a laptop im afraid).

not sure about drive failure notices, never had a drive failed haha.

when you replace it im guessing you can tell it that its the replacement.

 

[harry454]

yeah, not bad idea, wondered if apple could make the the air superdrives work with it