And for what it is worth my Mac Pro boots a tad under 19 seconds connected to a BenQ 22" LED display.
I took the leap and ordered the OWC Data Doubler 60gb kit. I guess it is my Christmas gift to myself. I am not looking forward to a fresh install and reconfiguring all my settings and applications, but such is life.
Here's to faster boots in 2011......
I emailed maxupgrades and asked if they would sell the enclosure seperately. So we will see I guess. There are some cases on eBay... they are functional and cheap, but unattractive. I am not going to spend much effort putting the superdrive in an enclosure though. I have other macs that I can use the optical drive on if I have to. If maxupgrades will sell it cheap (around $20), I will buy one. If not, the superdrive will be sold on eBay.
You get a discount when you order the OWC kit WITH the drive. I know that maxupgrades discounts as well, and actually the 60gb versions are the exact same price. But I wanted the OWC Mercury Extreme Pro ssd. The maxupgrades kit comes with the OCZ Vertex 2. So I gave up the free enclosure.
FYI: The MaxUpgrades kit and the OWC data doubler kit are the same exact thing! Same exact chip-set, tools, screws, bracket, EVERYTHING. You might as well buy everything from Maxupgrades, which includes the external optical enclosure for $89, which makes the external only 16 dollars, as opposed to getting the OWC dataD alone for $75, and having to live with another external for probably more money. Shipping's not included, but it still comes to about the same for my area.
Mr.Kay, Nice link you found there...lol
I think am gonna get the owc ssd 60gb and then get the rest from maxupgrades but it looks like i'll have to pay quite a lot for vat,custom cause am in the uk **** hope there was a easy way of getting them together then pay separate vat,custom