2009 MBP Unibody Hard Drive Question

[mmille24]

I have a 13 inch 2009 MBP unibody. I currently have a 160gb hard drive.

What is the largest hard drive available for it? I know there is the scorpio blue 500gb.

Is there anything bigger I can install? I'm moving to Ireland soon, so I don't think I can wait for anything. Thanks.

 

[Zyniker]

I have a 13 inch 2009 MBP unibody. I currently have a 160gb hard drive.

What is the largest hard drive available for it? I know there is the scorpio blue 500gb.

Is there anything bigger I can install? I'm moving to Ireland soon, so I don't think I can wait for anything. Thanks.

640GB is the biggest available hard drive in the form factor you want.
http://www.newegg.com/Store/SubCategory.aspx?SubCategory=380&name=Laptop-Hard-Drives
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136459

While there are some higher capacity hard drives available from certain manufacturer's (Western Digital for one), they are a larger form factor (taller), which means that they may very well not fit in your laptop.
http://www.westerndigital.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=685

 

[mmille24]

Thanks. Anyone have any experiences with this drive?

Also...Do I need superduper and a time machine to move all my programs/music/movies/ect to this new drive or will just the time machine do?

 

[miles01110]

TM should be fine.

 

[Ride9650]

Thanks. Anyone have any experiences with this drive?

Also...Do I need superduper and a time machine to move all my programs/music/movies/ect to this new drive or will just the time machine do?

I have one installed in mine, works great!

and no, you don't need both, either one will work.

 

[Badger^2]

While there are some higher capacity hard drives available from certain manufacturer's (Western Digital for one), they are a larger form factor (taller), which means that they may very well not fit in your laptop.
http://www.westerndigital.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=685

Sorry, bad guess.

You can fit any 2.5" drive in a Unibody MBP, even 12.5mm high ones.

1TB ones are pretty rare, 750 or 880 gig ones are the biggest I have seen -- but I just did a quick check and cant find one...