dzube Posted April 8, 2008 Share Posted April 8, 2008 Has anyone here tried this or know someone who has? http://www.mcetech.com/optibay/ I have a macbook and just found this site,I don't really need the dvd in it. Any info would be great,I don't want to spend the money if it wont work in Logic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nagal Posted April 8, 2008 Share Posted April 8, 2008 That is cool! I have not used it but there really is no reason why it should not work. It is just replacing your optical drive with a hard drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BJA Posted April 8, 2008 Share Posted April 8, 2008 I recently bought a new 17" hi res 2.6 Penryn MBP from these guys with a few upgrades. I got: 4 gigs RAM, 320 gig system drive and a 250 gig optibay drive. I had always wished for a way to have enough room in a laptop to put all of my samples, softsynths, etc. without using an external drive. The two drives are 5400 rpm but I have not had any problems with speed yet. I have installed Logic Pro Studio including all the samples, the entire Komplete 5 package, and Spectrasonics Stylus RMX with about 15 gigs of samples. I have also put a bunch of TV shows into iTunes. With all of this data, I still have about 150 gigs available on each drive. I did buy a FW800 200 gig external drive for tracking in case I run into speed problems down the road. This is my first Mac since 1991. Combined with the Apogee Duet, this makes for an extremely powerful and wonderfully useable music production machine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dzube Posted April 9, 2008 Author Share Posted April 9, 2008 Thanks for the replies,I was thinking of using it in a macbook (not pro) with a 7200 drive. Does anyone know if heat would be an issue? Is anyone using this combo? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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