Storage galore: Apple notebooks with two internal hard drives.

Compared with stationary computers, notebooks have the disadvantage that due to the small notebook hard drive only limited space is available. A SONY VGP-BPS8 hard drive stores, not least due to the much smaller size, less data than a larger hard drive for stationary systems and is also slower. While hard drives for desktop PCs with pre capacities to 2,000 GB are available, could notebook hard drives store until recently, only a maximum of 500 GB of data. But the small drives are catching up slowly: In recent months, the hard disk manufacturers now have models with 750 GB and even 1,000 GB capacity brought to market.

Although a lot of notebook hard drives with 750 or 1,000 GB capacity on the market now arrived and are available, can the Apple MacBook and Batterie APPLE A1280 continue to configure only up to 500 GB. This gap would like Oldenburg’s Apple Specialist, offering close macXperts all Apple notebooks with hard drives up to 1 TB (1,000 GB) capacity. The devices can be configured according to individual needs – on offer are also special Solid State Drives from Intel. be used of course also the new disk with 4KB sectors allow for extremely fast data access.

For the large memory hungry: Apple notebooks with two hard drives

If an internal hard drive with 1000 GB capacity is insufficient, the Apple MacBook and MacBook Pro can also be equipped with optional two hard drives. In this case, the internal DVD burner, the SuperDrive replaced by a mounting frame OptiBay of MCE, the one more SATA port is for a second internal hard drive available. Since the internal optical drive is not often used too often on the road, should represent instead the use of an external optical drive for most users there is no major problem. Currently, hard disk capacity up to 1.000 GB available, so that the total capacity increase of the internal hard drives in Batterie APPLE A1175 up to a whopping 2,000 GB. The second hard drive can be configured as usual in the disk utility from Apple and can be used both as a single drive as well as part of a RAID array. The remaining SuperDrive is returned to the buyer as an external Slimline Drive with USB 2.0 port.

Existing Apple notebook operate with two hard drives

The OptiBay mounting frame provides the company MCAA especially in the American market for years, so it is available not only for the new Apple notebooks with unibody enclosure, but also for older Batterie APPLE A1185 and even Batterie APPLE A1012. The mounting frame of the Oldenburg Mac mail order, in combination with SATA hard drives of 500 GB or 1,000 GB of capacity – with Solid State Drive offers are to follow soon. macXperts notes, however, that the installation should be done by an Apple technician and provides an appropriate conversion service, also called the nearest Apple Service Provider, in which the installation is possible on site.

Simple solution for Apple users with lots of storage needs

With the mounting frame OptiBay the company MCAA Oldenburg’s Apple specialist at macxperts.de/2hd offers an interesting solution to extend the internal memory of an Batterie APPLE MA561 or significantly increase the speed dss notebooks by a solid state drive. Complete with prices starting from 200 euros worth in many cases, upgrading older laptops from Apple.