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What optical drive bay do I need for a sata hardrive

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I have a 2008 Imac and I would like to install a second hard drive. but the guide says to use a Sata to hardirve optical bay thing...The imac I have uses an IDE conection to the disk drive...

Would this work for what Im after ?

http://www.powerbookmedic.com/DualDrive-...

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Contact the maker of the kit and ask them if the unit will work with your specific iMac. If not do they have a kit that will work? It may be as simple as using a different hard drive with IDE connections but they should know and stand behind their product. Good luck.

Optical Bay Adapters are different. Most of the new ones will handle a SATA drive in the bay and continue to connect to the logic board via the built in IDE BUS.

mayer,

My imac is a 8,1 it has a ata optica drive, I know its not sata, its the same kind of drive in the early 2008 macbooks,

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You said, "The imac I have uses an IDE conection to the disk drive..."

I think you made a mistake there. Your iMac does not have an IDE connection to its "disk drive", it has a SATA connection to its disk drive (HDD), but that is not relavent to the question that you are asking, I think.

It seems that you want to remove your "optical drive" (ie, DVD drive, not your disk drive), put a caddy in there and install a 2.5" SATA drive, correct? The interface for that optical DVD drive in your iMac is IDE/ PATA, so you need a hard drive bay to connect a SATA drive to that PATA connector.

Yes, you can, relatively cheaply. I just bought one from Amazon for about $10. It is an HDE, part # N105.

At Amazon, search for "12.7mm SATA HDD Caddy to PATA". I hesitate to put a hyperlink to the product, it might change.

Good luck.

A optial drive takes disks. SO thats why its called a disk drive. it takes disks. I am sorry if my english is such a problem. How could get get hardrive. IF I wanted my harddrive out I would of said the harddrive. but then there would be no boot volume, and thanks for showing me the right prouduct, seems your the only good one around here.

Jake Kramer,

I didn't invent the terminology, it is what it is, its standard. "Disk drive" means hard drive, "optical drive" means CD/ DVD. Yes, both use a "disk" so it's confusing, that's why we use standard terms, so it is not confusing. Anyway, I'm pretty sure I answered your question- "what optical drive bay do I need", and I told you where to get one pretty cheap. Please indicate that I answered your question.

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