Feb 23

MCE’s OptiBay exchanges unibody MacBook optical drive for HDD

Posted in: Apple, hard drive, HardDrive, macbook, macbook pro, MacbookPro, Today's Chili

As we’ve seen with the MacBook Air, Apple clearly feels there are a select group of you out there who can live without an optical drive on your laptop. Now, MCE is giving you unibody MacBook and MacBook Pro owners a similar option. The OptiBay is essentially a second hard drive that is installed internally in place of the optical disc drive, giving MB and MBP users the ability to vastly increase their storage space or tap into a RAID setup. The company has announced that said solution is shipping today to those interested, with options including 250GB, 320GB and 500GB drives. Oh, and if you’re worried about that optical drive you’ll be removing, fret not — these guys have a nifty external enclosure designed specifically to give it another home. How quaint.

[Via Macworld]

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Feb 04

eSATA HDD Extender may / may not expand PS3 storage

Posted in: hard drive, HardDrive, playstation, ps3, sony, storage, Today's Chili

We’re not saying the mildly brilliant eSATA HDD Extender wouldn’t work in theory, but we’re a bit skeptical about the, um, realness of this here product. Unlike Team Xecuter’s Hard Drive Xtender, which is definitely shipping to buyers, this device supposedly gives Sony’s PlayStation 3 the ability to recognize an external eSATA drive. Furthermore, the device also adds four USB ports for even more connectivity, and given just how sweet this looks beneath the console, we’d say some serious thought went into the design. Sadly, there’s no real indication of where the PS3 HD Plus PHE-01 will be sold, and even if you are able to locate one, the installation is a few notches above “drop dead simple.”

[Via Joystiq PlayStation]

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