Installing a Second Optical Drive in an Early 2009 Mac Pro

[sonic3243]

20 minutes?? HAHAHAHA!

Even someone with no knowledge of computers could get this done in under 8 minutes!

[Xtrykr]

Does this work with the mid-2010 mac pro?

[edguitartorres]

My Mac Pro Early 2009- I installed a 2nd hard drive and it was successful-

I however have a setting that I want to change, if u may know- the new HD seems to be mirroring my main drive and I do not want that!

(when i delete something from the main drive, it deletes the copy from the 2nd new drive) How do I make it allow me to delete stuff from my main drive without having the copy of it deleted from the 2nd drive?

By the way it's an internal hard drive Western Digital Caviar black 1 TB

[Sparty110]

Once you have installed your second optical drive, how do you get it to open once you turn the mac pro on?

[OWCmacsales]

@Sparty110 To open teh second optical drive in OS X, press Option-Eject on the keyboard.

[BigHornCanyon]

Will playback of Blu-ray require new CPU architecture?

Does this mean Mac Pro is behind tecnolical state of the art?

Or can a patch to Leopard OSX instill Blu-ray playback to the Mac Pro?

Last quetsion - Will "Snow Leopard" playback Blu-ray. In other words when SnowLeopard is installed will we see a capability enhancement that addresses blu-ray playback?

[Phliblib]

@BigHornCanyon With a third-party add-on, you can play, record, and work with blu-ray on your mac. Apple just doesn't add support by default because they prefer you buying their movies off iTunes and not from some store.

[BigHornCanyon]

YAY

[OWCmacsales]

There are a few benefits to having a second optical drive installed. With two DVD or CD burners installed in your Mac Pro, you can duplicate CDs and DVDs "on the fly". The Mac Pro also only comes with a Superdrive - meaning it can burn DVDs and CDs, there is no support for blu-ray, but the blu-ray drives are available. In this video, in fact, we installed a blu-ray capable burner. While OS X at this time does not support blu-ray playback, you still can record to blu-ray media.

[nofear519]

whats the point of having 2 optical drives?