What is the best price for a 1tb internal hard drive for a 13'' macbook pro. This macbook pro was just bought 2 weeks ago from apple store.
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Best internal Hard drive
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Due to the physical size 1TB SATA drives (12.5mm height), it won't fit in your 13" MBP w/out modification... unless there is a 9.5mm 1TB drive that I'm unaware of. I believe 750gb highest capacity that will fit w/out modification. Anyone please correct me if I'm wrong.
I've heard good things about this drive:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136546
It's not as fast as a 7200rpm drive would be, but what it lacks in speed, it makes up for in power consumption and lack of vibration and noise. To be completely honest with you, if I had the money, I'd upgrade to a SSD and spend whatever I had left over for a portable external HDD. You'll see the best performance gains going that route. I bought a 1TB portable Seagate for $70 a couple of weeks ago... now I'm on the prowl for a SSD w/in my budget.
Hope this helps.
EDIT: As far as brands go, WD, Hitachi, and Seagate are the most talked about. For the capacity that you're looking at,they'll all be around the $100 price range. You can often find them on sale for less than that though.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136546
It's not as fast as a 7200rpm drive would be, but what it lacks in speed, it makes up for in power consumption and lack of vibration and noise. To be completely honest with you, if I had the money, I'd upgrade to a SSD and spend whatever I had left over for a portable external HDD. You'll see the best performance gains going that route. I bought a 1TB portable Seagate for $70 a couple of weeks ago... now I'm on the prowl for a SSD w/in my budget.
Hope this helps.
EDIT: As far as brands go, WD, Hitachi, and Seagate are the most talked about. For the capacity that you're looking at,they'll all be around the $100 price range. You can often find them on sale for less than that though.
I've always bought Western Digital, and I've never once been dissapointed.
I'd suggest the WD Scorpio Black 500GB drive. its 7,200 rpm: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136692
Although an SSD will give you the best performance, you won't get the storage it seems like you want/need.
I'd suggest the WD Scorpio Black 500GB drive. its 7,200 rpm: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136692
Although an SSD will give you the best performance, you won't get the storage it seems like you want/need.
I just bought a 1TB for my 13" MBP on ebay. I started a thread on it as I got it for $70+15 shipping. I'm moving my 500gb to the ODD bay since it's 9.5mm and the 1TB drive will go in the HDD bay as they will accept up to 12.7mm drives.
You are very wrong.
All unibody MBPs will easily take a 12.5 mm drive.
However, almost all 12.5 mm drives are 5,200-5,400 rpm drives (maybe all), and thus somewhat slower than 7,200 rpm drives.
Check out this page http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/hard-drives/2.5-Notebook/for
for a few good options. Especially the Segate Momentous XT and 750GB drive.
In contrast to the post above, I had a horrible experience with the WD Scorpio Blue, constant stuttering, stalling, beachballs etc etc.
The Hitachi and Seagate 500 7,200 rpm drives work great in my 2009 MBP.
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You are very wrong.
All unibody MBPs will easily take a 12.5 mm drive.
However, almost all 12.5 mm drives are 5,200-5,400 rpm drives (maybe all), and thus somewhat slower than 7,200 rpm drives.
Check out this page http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/hard-drives/2.5-Notebook/for
for a few good options. Especially the Segate Momentous XT and 750GB drive.
In contrasst to the psot above, I had a horrible experience with the WD Scorpio Blue, constant stuttering, stalling, beachballs etc etc.
The Hitachi and Seagate 500 7,200 rpm drives work great in my 2009 MBP.
Sorry, I was under the assumption only the 15" and 17" unibodies would accept a 12.5mm drive.