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Anybody upgraded their MacBook Hard Drive?

my drive sits at around 35c to 42c was the highest i ve seen it go editing a little family vacation slideshow on imovie hd.. i ve got a WD 250 gb caviar i think it is im not sure...
 
stvfisher said:
I got away with using a VERY small flathead to fit in one of the staright line in the torx screw, but it is not recommended at all.
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yeah just go to the closest canadian tire (if in canada) or to teh nearest stor ethat sells tools and get a torx 8, they r like 2 bucks not even..
 
chatoyer said:
OK, a bit more to report. Today it was used in my office sporadically and it was reasonably warm (28 degrees C outside and prob about 19 in my office).

Fans have not come on as much, so I'm starting to think the drive is settling in.

CPU temps are higher than they were with the old drive, to be sure, but not high enough to trigger any more than 1800rpm from the fans. At 1800rpm, I don't hear it. Because the temps are higher, though, it takes less activity to put the CPUs up to where the fans crank up.

Right now: Firefox, NetNewsWire, Mail, Skype, PathFinder and iCal running. Temp is 53C, HDD is 33C. It's about 17 degrees in the room. Dunno, maybe that's not bad.
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That's rather cool.

I upgraded my Macbook's RAM to 2GB and hdd to 320GB at 5400RPM.

And my cpu temps have spiked considerably. It was once 41-45 d.Cel when running on Tiger with the default 1GB RAM and 60GB hard disk.

But ever since i changed to Leopard and performed the hardware change, my Mac's CPU is running on 55-60 d.Cel simply when running Safari through Airport.

Which makes me wonder: i know more ram = hotter CPU temps, but larger hard disk also = hotter CPU? o_O

and even IF a larger hdd causes higher CPU temps, surely its not as significant as a 10+d.Cel jump! >.<
 
Sage Harupyuia said:
That's rather cool.

I upgraded my Macbook's RAM to 2GB and hdd to 320GB at 5400RPM.

And my cpu temps have spiked considerably. It was once 41-45 d.Cel when running on Tiger with the default 1GB RAM and 60GB hard disk.

But ever since i changed to Leopard and performed the hardware change, my Mac's CPU is running on 55-60 d.Cel simply when running Safari through Airport.

Which makes me wonder: i know more ram = hotter CPU temps, but larger hard disk also = hotter CPU? o_O

and even IF a larger hdd causes higher CPU temps, surely its not as significant as a 10+d.Cel jump! >.<
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With that in mind, does anyone think there's a problem with my Macbook?
 
chatoyer said:
OK, a bit more to report. Today it was used in my office sporadically and it was reasonably warm (28 degrees C outside and prob about 19 in my office).

Fans have not come on as much, so I'm starting to think the drive is settling in.

CPU temps are higher than they were with the old drive, to be sure, but not high enough to trigger any more than 1800rpm from the fans. At 1800rpm, I don't hear it. Because the temps are higher, though, it takes less activity to put the CPUs up to where the fans crank up.

Right now: Firefox, NetNewsWire, Mail, Skype, PathFinder and iCal running. Temp is 53C, HDD is 33C. It's about 17 degrees in the room. Dunno, maybe that's not bad.
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chatoyer, I was wondering how things have been in the past months with your new drive. I am thinking to buy the exact same drive in my C2D BlackBook, but having read your posts I might refrain from it....

thanks for your posts anyway!
 
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