I have been wanting to upgrade my stock 250GB 5400-rpm Serial ATA hard drive on my 13" MacBook Pro to something with more space. I need to know the maximum size of the replacement drive. Can someone please tell me the specifications? I know it has to be 2.5", but I need to know the height and whether it still has to be SATA (3Gb/s) or can it be SATA (3Gb/s) with Advanced Formatting like WD Scorpio Blue 1TB. Thanks.
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Any 2.5" S-ATA HDD with a maximum height of 12.5mm will work, thus the 1TB HDD will do.
Btw, what do you mean with:
Btw, what do you mean with:
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Well, I went to the homepage of Western Digital to search the list of internal hard drives and apparently, WD Scorpio Blue with a capacity of 1TB has an interface of SATA 3Gb/s w/AdvFormat. Here's the link. http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=685.
Yes, according to dozens of threads about the same issue, the Unibody MacBook, as all other Unibody MacBooks and MacBook Pros, will accept a 12.5mm high 2.5" S-ATA HDD in its housing.
I think 12.5mm height drives fit in the new unibody MBPs with no problems, but on pre-unibody Macbook Pros, only in the 17" ones. Someone else chime in if I'm wrong about this.
Anyone know if a 7200 rpm drive will make a white unibody Macbook vibrate?
Looking at the WD Scorpio Black WD5000BEKT 500 GB hard drive.
Looking at the WD Scorpio Black WD5000BEKT 500 GB hard drive.
I just put that exact model in my new 13" MBP 2.4 GHz. Maybe a little speed increase, but the vibration is really annoying. I may go back to the stock drive. That drive didn't make my Dell 1764 vibrate...disappointed.
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It would seem that that 500GB 5400 only Western Digital Scorpion Blue scores NEARLY as high as many other 7200 rpm drives, and even better in some respects. For the potential battery life savings, it would seem to be possibly the best of both worlds?
Can anyone comment on how well it works in the 13" MBP?
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=470938631&pf_rd_i=507846
It would seem that that 500GB 5400 only Western Digital Scorpion Blue scores NEARLY as high as many other 7200 rpm drives, and even better in some respects. For the potential battery life savings, it would seem to be possibly the best of both worlds?
Can anyone comment on how well it works in the 13" MBP?
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=470938631&pf_rd_i=507846
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