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I have a 2006 xserve (emc2107) . I just ordered 2 optical drive HDD cady's for the 2008 20" iMac(emc2133). Both xserve/iMac use the same connector (PATA) for the optical drive. My question is, does anyone know if someone else has tried this and/or is there some complication I might run into?
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If what I am hearing is correct, you want to replace the optical drive with an iMac caddy and use a 2.5" SSD in it. Your first concern is that the optical drive is PATA rather than SATA. So you need an SATA to PATA optical drive connector. Is that correct?
Tough problem and I don't have an answer but may be able to help some. (Actually I would love to see you get this work so I could do it on my 2008 xserve). OWC does have a connector for converting SATA to full IDE ( used one a couple of years ago to put an SSD into an MDD.
The next problem will be to get the server to recognize it. (I have had great difficulty getting to work with drives other than specialty Apple branded drives. I think your best chance on this would be to contact OWC technical support and see if they think it is even possible. It would be a terrific improvement as a boot drive in a xserve. Please keep us updated as to your progress.
I have not used my 2008 server for a while but if I remember correctly, I was having a hard time taking it above 10.7.5, so it just sits in the rack.
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A bit confused on what you are trying to do here. Your question mentions the optical drive, as well as the HDD. Are you trying to install a new optical drive? Or a new HDD?
由 Andrew Afonso 完成的
I am thinking of replacing the optical drive w/ a ssd I have laying around. From what I've read you cannot replace the hot swappable HDD's with just any drive, apple approved drives only(from my research). I mention that b/c I'd just leave the optical alone and clone one of the HDD's if I though it'd work. So, to answer your question I'm wanting to replace the optical drive with a drive caddy/ssd.
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