1 terabyte RAID in a MacBook Pro

Computers & Mobile Technology

Two Drives

Damien Stolarz, co-author of the upcoming iPhone Hacks and author of Car PC Hacks, has crammed two hard drives into his MacBook and likes to live on the edge:

I bought two nominally 500GB hard drives (amusingly, each enclosure contained a different manufacturer – one Hitachi and one Samsung).

Then I purchased an adapter from MCE Tech, which has the same internal shape as my MBP’s DVD drive, but adapts the DVD ATA connection to take a SATA hard drive…

1 Terabyte raid in my 17″ Mac Book Pro

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