Whats the maximum size HDD that will work in my macbook?

Deano.uk

macrumors regular

Original poster

• Oct 3, 2009

• #1

Hi all,

just wondered whats the largest capacity harddrive that would work in my Macbook unibody.

cheers all 🙂

 

apunkrockmonk

macrumors 6502a

• Oct 3, 2009

• #2

Only 9.5mm hard drives will fit in the MacBooks.

To the best of my knowledge the largest 9.5mm hard drive is 640GB.

 

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shaunymac

macrumors 6502

• Oct 3, 2009

• #3

apunkrockmonk said:

Only 9.5mm hard drives will fit in the MacBooks.

To the best of my knowledge the largest 9.5mm hard drive is 640GB.

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I believe that is correct also.

If you are wanting mass storage, take out the optical drive and put a hd in there. Search optibay and you will find all kinds of threads on it.

 

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nebarik

macrumors member

• Oct 4, 2009

• #4

hold on, he said unibody. dont the unibodies have a couple of mm more space in the hdd bay? big enough for the 12.5mm 1tb. or am i thinking of the 15 and 17 incher's