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Free up a spare drive sled in the Mac Pro
Hmph... $29 + shipping for a spare sled is still cheaper than a new hard drive, or an out-of-warranty repair.
Or, you could buy an external SATA drive dock.
Free up a spare drive sled in the Mac Pro
There are 2 spare esata ports on the motherboard.
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Newer%20Technology/MPQXES2/ For $25 plus shipping you have 2 external esata ports. Easier to swap drives by unplugging a cable or 2 than taking your machine apart.
Free up a spare drive sled in the Mac Pro
I had just been in a regular PC shop in Munich (Germany) where they sell such adapters with a single eSATA connector for 5 Euro, which is about 7-8 US$.
Free up a spare drive sled in the Mac Pro
If a $29 drive sled is a lot of money, you bought the wrong computer. That's like 1% of the purchase price of the computer. I'm not going to jury-rig a physically unattached hard drive laying on felt into a $3K computer. How clever will you feel if/when the SATA connector on the backplane breaks or the drive overhead from sitting on felt and having no airflow?
Free up a spare drive sled in the Mac Pro
I have a question about this: I just bought an external drive enclosure with an eSATA connector (by Revoltec), and also installed one of those eSATA connectors from the internal free SATA connectors to the back of my 8-core Mac Pro.
Free up a spare drive sled in the Mac Pro
Err, actually, I found that it _works_ just out of the box. But only when I have the drive connected at boot time! So, it's behaving like an internal drive that you cannot connect or remove while the Mac is running.
Free up a spare drive sled in the Mac Pro
Hot swapping isn't recommended on a Mac Pro!! |
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