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What brand/model is the stock 5400RPM drive?

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DesmoPilot

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Just wondering what brand/model the 5400RPM drive that apple's using these days.
 
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Ralzy

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13'' had a hitachi and the 15'' had a seagate. I had the two base models.
 
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alust2013

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On the fence
I believe it is a Hitachi, probably the basic model, although for some reason mine has a Fujitsu drive that came with it.

EDIT: Ha, it appears that there really isn't a whole lot of consistency
 
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neteng101

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Looking around the Apple store I noticed all the drives coming up at SATA 1.5 not 3.0 speeds.
 
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DesmoPilot

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Thanks for the replies; debating what HD to replace the stock 5400 with (already have a enclosure coming to slap the stock HD in). Right now I'm leaning towards the WD Scorpio Blue 5400/500GB or the WD Scorpio Black 7200/320GB.
 
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thinh3d

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The Scorpio Black is noticeably noisy :) I upgraded my stock HDD with a Hitachi TravelStar 500GB 7200rpm and very happy with it.
 
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tekmoe

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I upgraded to a Hitachi Travelstar 320gb 7200rpm drive. I converted the stock drive to a Time Machine backup.
 
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