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Sponsors bar questionPosted by jay dubya
Hi folks,
sorry, not a FCP question, but related to one of your recent sponsor's links. I noticed last week that one of your sponsors (on the left of screen) was advertising a new storage device that was a horizontal 2-drive bay that sat flush with the 17inch MBPro - it basically sat underneath the laptop and has the same dimensions as the 17in. It has now disappeared and no amount of searching LAFCPUG or the web brings it up. Can anyone point me in the right direction ? Thanks, JW.
Dont think it was here on these forums. Haven't had a storage device ad on these forums for a long time. Might of been a google ad on some article you read here on lafcpug.org, but from your description I cant seem to conjure up what drive it might of been.
Michael Horton -------------------
coulda been one of these maybe
[www.maxxdigital.com] or these [eshop.macsales.com] [eshop.macsales.com]
Thanks Andy,
No, none of those, but I have found it. [www.transintl.com] Thanks for taking the time though, cheers.
It looks nice, but good grief, that's a horrible place to put a drive array! Where are the fans in that thing? I see it cools via conduction off the aluminium chassis, not very good for long term usage, also, any 5th grader will tell you that heat travels upwards via conduction straight to your prized MacBook pro. I mean it's good if you are covered by AppleCare, but still...
Okay, maybe I need to tone down a tad. It's not the worst thing you can buy. Short of an uncooled plastic enclosure running a RAID 0 configuration connected by USB. www.strypesinpost.com
Well, when you gotta carry drives, you carry drives, plus a power adapter plus rugged metal enclosure. It's not something I'll bring to Starbucks, though..
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>Of course fans mean an external power supply
It has a power supply unit. You can't run raids with 3.5" drives off bus power. Not unless you do what Caldigit does on the vr mini. www.strypesinpost.com
It also says "in the box: ...power adapter". They run 2.5" drives so it could just be bus powered. Cooling isn't an issue. Get risers, and an industrial fan, but it defeats the benefits of the form factor.
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