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Best HDD Upgrade Option?

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eddiejsmall

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Looking to upgrade my 13" MBP Aluminum Unibody. Mid 2010. It's only a few months old, but have slowly realized I am burning up the space. I currently have the stock 250gb's.

I'd like to go 750, or even 1TB if I can, but not sure about height, or even speed of drives to get the best options.

Can anyone here give me a run down on what some options may be for this upgrade?

I've been googling for days, and seem to find alot of jargon on different stuff, but want to find out from people who are in the "know".
 
There are several big capacity options out there. Just make sure you get a 9.5mm (although it seems the unibody MBPs can accept a 12.5mm drive) tall laptop drive with a SATA connection. These were the three biggest I found on Other World Computing's site.

1TB Western Digital Scorpio Blue (5,200 rpm, 8MB cache):
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Western%20Digital/WD10TPVT/

750GB Seagate Momentus (7,200 rpm, 16MB cache):
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Seagate/ST9750420AS/

750GB Western Digital Scorpio Blue (5400 rpm, 8MB cache):
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Western%20Digital/WD7500BPVT/

As for speed, you'd have to look at some benchmarks online because drive speed does not always tell the whole story. Sites like barefeats.com often times have HDD benchmarks but I am sure there are several others also.
 
I'm looking into the Momentus 750 at 7200.

Is that going to be noticeably faster then my current stock drive?
 
Tiger Direct is available for Pre-Order at $99. No word on when it is actually available. MacMall and New Egg both claim they have it.
 
Refraining from any sort of impulse buy, I'm giving the weekend to research.

Pros/Cons of these two drives in questions

1TB - 12.5mm - 5200 Western Digital

750GB - 9.5mm - 72000 Seagate

--I'm leaning towards Seagate, faster drive, not as much space, but size is at the 9.5mm recommended.

--Western Digitial is bigger, but i've heard numerous complaints on speed of drive, and height not fitting into the pros right?
 
eddiejsmall said:
Refraining from any sort of impulse buy, I'm giving the weekend to research.

Pros/Cons of these two drives in questions

1TB - 12.5mm - 5200 Western Digital

750GB - 9.5mm - 72000 Seagate

--I'm leaning towards Seagate, faster drive, not as much space, but size is at the 9.5mm recommended.

--Western Digitial is bigger, but i've heard numerous complaints on speed of drive, and height not fitting into the pros right?
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a) Size of WD is no issue in all newer unibody MBPs.
b) 7200 HDDs might be feelable in the notebook - both from a vibration and noise point of view - as far as I could find out so far.
 
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