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750gb and 1TB 2.5 inch drives now available.

Has anyone seen this?

I just did a quick search to see if any 750gb 2.5" 9.5mm drives were available after hearing the announcement that toshiba will launch the first ones and i found this:

http://www.goharddrive.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=G02-0138&Click=46406

They're claiming to have a 2.5" 9.5mm 750gb drive that's available right now, and the toshiba models haven't even gone into production. Anyone try any of these, or have an opinion on them?

curious.
 
The General said:
Okay, so what is the definitive answer?

Will 12.5mm drives work in my 17" uMBP? I want to order two 1TB drives ASAP. I use an optibay, I know it will fit in there.
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Just do a thread search. Someone else about a week or two ago actually documented how he put a 1TB drive in his 17" uMBP. It should fit apparently in all uMBPs.
 
ayeying said:
I've even got 2 of these 12.5mm drives in a Core Duo MacBook Pro
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Did you use the hard drive caddy or did you mount them in some other fashion? Do you have problems with not having SMS on one drive?

Do those Western Digital drives have SMS or something like it?
 
GoHardDrive White Label 750GB

Just ordered one for the PS3 that was the 9.5mm form factor from them. it arrived today DOA, so I have to RMA it and see if I can get a new one to verify...I'll keep you posted, but I might stay away from them right now until they resolve this prob (or not)

bojangles9999 said:
I just did a quick search to see if any 750gb 2.5" 9.5mm drives were available after hearing the announcement that toshiba will launch the first ones and i found this:

http://www.goharddrive.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=G02-0138&Click=46406

They're claiming to have a 2.5" 9.5mm 750gb drive that's available right now, and the toshiba models haven't even gone into production. Anyone try any of these, or have an opinion on them?

curious.
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received a wd 750gb 9.5mm drive today via well-known internet reseller - $117 shipped.

there are more than one model of wd 750gb drive - others i've seen before are 12.5mm - this one is the WD7500BPVT and and the first i've seen at 9.5mm. the similarly numbered 1TB WD10TPVT is a 12.5mm guy (and spins at the odd 5200 vs 5400).

it's going into an early 2008 macbook pro 2.5ghz... will post with results.
 
thought i'd report back as to how things went....

i'm almost afraid to, as it went so well i don't want to jinx it.

drive fits in early 2008 2.5Ghz MBP fine.

one very sweet thing about the Advanced Format drives - when I formatted it it said 750GB capacity - 749.6GB available.

used SuperDuper! to clone my old Mac partition to the new drive. it took something like 6 hrs via external FW800 enclosure - but that's not bad for 370GB out of a 500GB drive.

rebooted and ran Disk Utility to repair disk permissions.

next, i used Boot Camp Assistant to set up 80GB for Windows, and Winclone to move the Boot Camp partition from the old drive to the new one.

Windows 7 (U64) needed to be sure that it wasn't pirated on first boot - but otherwise, all is OK.

as an aside, I popped in a 4GB stick onto the upper DIMM slot to give me a total of 6GB as well. so far so good. i do print catalog layout and am hoping that this tides me over for a few months.

completely unrelated - when updating the Windows side of the house - I went over to nvidia's website and found that Macs are supported by Verde, their new semi-universal mobile drivers.
 
i have a mid 2010 15" mac pro.. will the 12.5mm 1tb hdd fit in the opitcal bay? i bought a caddy off ebay and wondering if this will fit
 
EspressoLove said:
My 432GB HDD shows up as 499.76GB.
Snow Leopard "gave" me ≈60GB
Did I miss anything :rolleyes:
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You're right - I was giving the Advanced Format drive the credit when it's Snow Leopard's move to base 10 drive sizing. While I understand there might be some efficiency gains with AF - that remins to be seen.

I'd originally formatted the outgoing 500GB drive under Leopard, then upgraded to SL. The new drive was formatted in SL from the get go - so it saw a result that the boot drive itself didn't get to take advantage of.

The intended takeaway from my post was that you can indeed put a 750GB drive in a pre-Unibody MacBook Pro.
 
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