MCE ships new OptiBay notebook hard drive
updated 02:25 pm EST, Fri January 5, 2007
New OptiBay drive ships
MCE Technologies today began shipping a new version of its OptiBay Hard Drive designed specifically for Apple's 13-inch MacBook and 15-inch MacBook Pro systems. The MCE OptiBay optical bay hard drive is a second internal hard drive for MacBook Pro, MacBook, and PowerBook G4 systems that takes the place of the laptop's internal optical drive (SuperDrive or Combo Drive). Drives are available in capacities up to 160GB, allowing a total storage capacity of 360GB in Apple's new notebooks or 320GB in PowerBook G4 systems. The drive has the same physical dimensions and data-connectivity as a standard internal optical drive, but is recognized by the machine as a standard hard drive. All initialization, partitioning, and RAID setup is managed by Apple's Disk Utility program. Users can set up high performance raid (RAID 0) or mirroring (RAID 1) configurations using on-board hard drives. MCE's Optibay Hard Drive is available in 80GB ($330), 100GB ($360 or $460 for 5,400/7,200RPM), 120GB ($410), and 160GB ($480).
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Re: wtf
He posted to the wrong thread. He's complaining about the MCE harddrive that replaces a laptop's superdrive with a second hard drive. Which is useful if you've got lots of data and programs, and no need for reading the occasional CD.