A Hard Drive Enclosure --- $129! Hard Drive, not included!
September 14, 2009 Post a Comment Tuesday, September 15th, 2009 – Netcast 917
Remember: Hard Drive not included. It's the enclosure that's $129!It's the MCE OptiBay Hard Drive Enclosure. On this Turn The Table Tuesday Leo told us about a product that he thought was very clever, but wildly expensive. Never one to be happy with the components inside a computer he buys, Leo loves to upgrade just about all of them. He recently upgraded the internal drive on one of his MAC laptops. Here’s a little bit of info from the website where Leo bought his new drive. “The new MCE OptiBay Hard Drive was created for those users who need as much hard drive space as possible inside their MacBook, MacBook Pro or PowerBook G4. The MCE OptiBay Hard Drive replaces the notebook's internal SuperDrive or Combo drive with a high performance hard drive up to 500GB, providing unheard of capacities for internal notebook hard drive space - up to 1 terabyte when combined with a 500GB internal hard drive - for all your projects... digital video, music, photos, etc.” Leo actually may have installed a solid-state drive, but it wasn’t the drive that was his choice of the day. What Leo picked as his Turn The Table Tuesday gadget was an enclosure for the drive that he took out of his MAC when he put the new one in. Again from the company website: “This external portable enclosure holds your SuperDrive or Combo drive so you'll still be able to use it anytime you want for loading system software or applications, as well as burning, playing, or ripping CDs and DVDs!” The thing Leo didn’t like was the price. The enclosure alone – not including any drive – is $129! I don’t own or use a MAC, so I hope I have this info correct. But if you want more info, you can get it directly from the manufacturer at the link below:
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