AmesMUG: Drive Enclosures

[Brandon Newendorp]

Yes, its far different from the Macbook.  Involves removing over a  
dozen screws and several parts.  You can only install "Customer  
Installable Parts" without voiding your warranty.  On the MBP, those  
are basically RAM and the battery.
--
Brandon Newendorp

On Oct 20, 2007, at 6:17 PM, david l goodrich <dlg at dorkzilla.org> wrote:

> On Sat, Oct 20, 2007 at 11:54:23AM -0500, Nicholas Meyer wrote:
>> It's not for the faint of heart, and if you mess it up, no amount of
>> warranty is going to get you your computer back.
>
> It's not?  Is it substantially different than the way you'd
> access the drive in the macbook?
>
> What are you going to mess up that would void the warranty that
> can't be resolved by putting the old drive in?
>  --david
>>
>> If you're not comfortable messing around inside of a laptop, I'd
>> suggest just getting a large external drive.
>>
>> Otherwise, yes, you can just pull the hard drive that was in it out
>> and use it in an external SATA enclosure.
>>
>> -Nick
>>
>> On Oct 20, 2007, at 11:30 AM, Clark Colby wrote:
>>
>>> I also am looking to get either a larger external or possibly a
>>> larger internal for my MacBook Pro. Is it had to replace the hard
>>> drive and can you then buy a case for the 80GB and use it as an
>>> external?
>>>
>>> Clark Colby
>>>
>>>
>>> On Oct 20, 2007, at 8:59 AM, Nicholas Meyer wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm also interested in this, but for a 2.5" drive; I'm pulling the
>>>> 80GB drive out of my MacBook Pro and replacing it with a 160GB  
>>>> drive.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for any suggestions.
>>>>
>>>> -Nick
>>>>
>>>> On Oct 19, 2007, at 8:06 PM, John Rearick wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> To prepare for Leopard, I'm looking to get myself an external
>>>>> drive, however I already have a couple large IDE hard drives
>>>>> laying around.  Since SATA is starting to become more of the
>>>>> standard, I'm looking for a SATA drive enclosure and an IDE ->
>>>>> SATA adaptor.
>>>>>
>>>>> Does anyone have any suggestions for Mac friendly drive
>>>>> enclosures and IDE -> SATA adaptors?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>
>>>>> John
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