About to buy a new drive question

[muaythai]

I just got a refurb 2009 15" MacBook Pro and need to get a new hard drive for it. Would there be any disadvantages with something like this: http://www.discountelectronics.com/p...oduct_id=15785

Thanks!

[mohsy90]

Originally Posted by muaythai

I just got a refurb 2009 15" MacBook Pro and need to get a new hard drive for it. Would there be any disadvantages with something like this: http://www.discountelectronics.com/p...oduct_id=15785

Thanks!

It should work fine. Any reason why you're specifically purchasing this dell hard drive and not a seagate, toshiba, or WD drive. There is not much detail on the drive, no rpm or cache buffer listed. Nor does it provide any info on which serial interfaces it supports.

[muaythai]

Any reason why you're specifically purchasing this dell hard drive

Because the store is near me, the drive is cheap and I can get this done over the weekend so that my old MacBook can be gifted to my mother-in-law in time for her birthday next week.

But yeah, this is going into a machine I only use for music production. In the old days you needed expensive, fast, crazy drives for audio. Now, maybe not so much. It's not like I'm a professional ProTools studio for hire. I'm a hobbiest making techno after my day job.

Still, what would you recommend as far as rpm, cache buffer and other specs? I really appreciate your reply.