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    MCE Optibay + WD Scorpio Blue 750: What's your experiences?

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by dbam987, Jan 3, 2011.

  1. dbam987

    dbam987 wicked-poster

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    I'm planning on getting the MCE Optibay and a WD Scorpio Blue 750 to expand my storage needs on my MBP13 (2010). Anyone recently get the Optibay and had any problems with it? Anything I should watch out for?

    The primary purpose of this setup is that I'd like (more like need) to run Win7 virtually with VMWare alongside OS X, and find that running both off a single drive is a bit taxing. Plus I plan on doing a ton of video projects so need ample space without having to lug around an external hard-drive.
     
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    ygohome Notebook Deity

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    I have two 500GB hitachi 7200 rpm drives in my machine by using an MCE optibay for one of the drives. I use one drive for bootcamp (win7 64) and the primary drive for OSX (of course). I also run virtual machines using Parallels in OSX for LINUX with an Oracle database and its various dev tools. Having plenty of drive space is very nice!

    But I have an MBP17 (mid 2009). I've not had any issues with it the optibay. The install was pretty straight forward. But mine is a 17" laptop so I can't say for sure what you may run into with 13". I can't imagine it would be super difficult.

    Congrats!
     
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    Thanks for the info! I actually went ahead with getting the OptiBay and the Scorpio 750 hard-drive. It works very good on my MBP13, and I'm getting better performance out of running Windows 7. The battery takes a small hit though, but I knew that would happen. I still get a good 6 hours which is awesome for my needs.
     
    dbam987, Jan 15, 2011
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