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Considering HD Upgrade on Macbook Pro 2009

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Alexwithad

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I currently have the 13" Macbook Pro from last summer with a 160gb hard drive and it's full. I want to know if these two combos will work and will be good;

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136197
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http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817816008

My plan would be to put my old hard drive in the enclosure and use it restore on the new one. Would this possible or should I get a drive with a higher rpm? I think the one I linked is 5400 and so is the one in my Macbook Pro.


edit: I'm actually considering this one now because for a few extra bucks it has 500 gb storage.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148371
 
Alexwithad said:
I currently have the 13" Macbook Pro from last summer with a 160gb hard drive and it's full. I want to know if these two combos will work and will be good;

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136197
&
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817816008

My plan would be to put my old hard drive in the enclosure and use it restore on the new one. Would this possible or should I get a drive with a higher rpm? I think the one I linked is 5400 and so is the one in my Macbook Pro.
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the one you chose isn't bad but might as well get a faster one since you're upgrading
 
Your stock harddrive will work just fine as an external drive. But you will need to get THIS enclosure because it has a SATA interface, which is what you need. The one you linked to was IDE, which will not work for you.
 
That HD would work fine, although it would run a bit faster if you went with a 7200 RPM drive. However, that enclosure will not work as it uses IDE. You need one that works with SATA drives.
 
aeboi said:
the one you chose isn't bad but might as well get a faster one since you're upgrading
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When you mean faster do you mean 7200 rpm? Or does that mean something else. Not very familiar with hard drives.

sn0warmy said:
Your stock harddrive will work just fine as an external drive. But you will need to get THIS enclosure because it has a SATA interface, which is what you need. The one you linked to was IDE, which will not work for you.
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Sigh, I didn't even notice that, thanks for the heads up haha.
 
yeah, but he 500gb you're considering is not bad since you want more space, otherwise just pay a few more dollars for a faster drive
 
I put a 500gb 7200rpm Seagate disk in my MBP a few months after I got it, and I love it. there is slightly more vibration in the computer but after a while.
 
Here's the nicest external enclosure you can get, in terms of "matching" your mbp. $20

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http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/USB2/OWC_Express
 
since you are upgraded i would say go big or go home. go as big as the mcp can get 500 or 1tb?


i have a 15" mbp 2009 and I am looking to upgrade to a 1tb hard drive!
 
Gator24765 said:
since you are upgraded i would say go big or go home. go as big as the mcp can get 500 or 1tb?


i have a 15" mbp 2009 and I am looking to upgrade to a 1tb hard drive!
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I ended up going with a Seagate Momentus 320 gb for 59.99 @ Best Buy but I found a $30 gift card I had no use for there so I used it and only payed like $30 for a 320 gb 5400 hd. I wish I would have gotten a 7200 but for the price I paid it was worth it.
 
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