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This week’s Installation Video – OWC Mercury Elite Pro Classic

Friday, July 31st, 2009 | Author: OWC Chris S.

Another week has gone by, which means we’ve got another installation video for you.

This week’s “cinematic experience” guide details installing a SATA hard drive into the OWC Mercury Elite Pro Classic enclosure. This single-drive enclosure has a traditional assembly procedure in the form of screws, but also has an “align and slide” procedure which once you see it done, makes perfect sense.

It should be noted that while the enclosure shown in the video is for SATA drives, the only real difference, installation-wise, between the SATA model shown in the video and the older, IDE/ATA enclosures, is the internal connector type.

If you have an existing Mercury Elite Pro Classic solution that you’d like to put a larger hard drive in or you wish to DIY with a new “Add Your Own Drive” Kit, you can find the video in our Tech Center as well as on our YouTube Channel.

6 machines, 1 video – Removing the Optical Drive tray bezel

Friday, May 29th, 2009 | Author: OWC Chris S.

Its been a while, but we’ve got another video ready to go for you. This time around, we’re taking a look at one of our most common questions: how to remove the front bezel from a 5.25” optical drive.

Why would you need to do this? It turns out that on every tray-loading desktop Mac since the QuickSilver, the opening for the drive tray is extremely narrow. Installing a new drive right out of the box will result in the tray being unable to eject, due to this narrow opening. Fortunately, the solution for all these Mac models is the same. Removing the plastic bezel on the front of the drive narrows the front of the tray enough for it to fit though the opening.

The process is simple enough. Manually eject the drive tray. Push gently to detach the two tabs on the underside of the drive tray. Slide the bezel off. Close the tray. Sometimes, though, its easier to just see it being done, and so we have this latest video.

As usual, you can find the video both in our Tech Center, and on our YouTube channel.

Running out of drive space in your 17″ MacBook Pro?

Friday, May 1st, 2009 | Author: OWC Chris S.

There are very few certainties in life. Death and taxes are, of course, the most popular, but right up there is the fact that – barring mechanical failure – your hard drive is going to fill up.

With all the music, movies, files and other stuff we tend to collect on our Macs, it really is a matter of time before you start running out of space. While it is fairly simple to gain some more space by cleaning out some of the accumulated junk, sometimes its preferable just to upgrade to a larger hard drive instead.

OWC has instructional videos for replacing the hard drive in a large number of Macs. This week, we’ve added yet another one: The 17″ MacBook Pro (non-unibody). If you’ve been feeling the hard drive pinch, but haven’t yet made the leap, check out the video in our Tech Center or on our YouTube channel, and see how easy it is.

Double-Barreled Disk Burning

Friday, April 10th, 2009 | Author: OWC Chris S.

This week’s instructional video shows you how to add a second optical drive to the 2009 Mac Pro. It’s a real simple process, requiring only a small screwdriver and a paper clip.

This is a useful upgrade, especially if you do a lot of disc burning and/or duplication, or simply want to add Blu-Ray data storage and movie creation (sorry, still no playback support) to your Mac.

Check out how to perform this upgrade either at our YouTube channel or at the 2009 Mac Pro page in our newly-redesigned Video section!

Integrate just about anything into your Mac Pro.

Friday, April 3rd, 2009 | Author: OWC Chris S.

The Mac Pro has the one thing that’s not available on any other Mac: the ability to drop in an expansion card that allows your Mac to utilize other hardware.

Jonesing for some good, old-fashioned FireWire 400 connectivity, so you can hook up your older peripherals without converter cables? There’s a card for that. Need more USB ports? You can do that, too. Want to add a RAID 5 array in an external enclosure? Covered. Real-time HD video capture? Why the heck not?

Installing a PCIe expansion card is simple enough to do, but to make it even easier, this week’s instructional video takes you through it step-by-step. See how easy it is to perform this upgrade by stopping by our video page or our YouTube channel.