06-01-2009, 12:16 AM
must be the first gen Pro, because it's much easier on the 2ng gen. Just have to pop out the fan.
At first, I used the two ports and ran them to be external SATA ports with a $5 card (OWC sell the same card for $25, but I found it elsewhere much cheaper). I think the thing about being non-hot swappable was what caused me to give up on that. I had to have the external case on at startup in order for the drives to mount. So instead, I mounted a regular hard drive into a 3.5-to-5.25" adapter and mounted it in the unused optical drive bay. So now I have 5 internal HD's.
I had tried mounting a second optical drive that I had into the unused bay, but the door didn't line up properly. Even with taking the bezel off (or whatever you call the plastic piece on the door), and it just barely didn't work.
At first, I used the two ports and ran them to be external SATA ports with a $5 card (OWC sell the same card for $25, but I found it elsewhere much cheaper). I think the thing about being non-hot swappable was what caused me to give up on that. I had to have the external case on at startup in order for the drives to mount. So instead, I mounted a regular hard drive into a 3.5-to-5.25" adapter and mounted it in the unused optical drive bay. So now I have 5 internal HD's.
I had tried mounting a second optical drive that I had into the unused bay, but the door didn't line up properly. Even with taking the bezel off (or whatever you call the plastic piece on the door), and it just barely didn't work.