Fastest 2.5" Harddrive for new MacBook Alu

[smaug]

I got the Seagate and feel the vibration on the palmrest; anyone have ideas to get rid of the vibration?

 

[MontrealMonger]

Sorry for being the tragic newbie with this question, but how does one replace the hard drive without losing the OS?

 

[fuzzielitlpanda]

The Hitachi Travelstar 7K320 (7200rpm, 320G) offers the most bang for the buck in terms of capacity to speed ratio to price ratio. It tops out at 75MB/s READ and WRITE. It's going for $79 after double rebate on ZipZoomFly.com.

But for blazing speed at an 'almost reasonable' price with 'adequate' storage capacity, the OCZ Core Series 128G SSD is tempting. We measured 103MB/s READ and 86MB/s WRITE. You can buy it at Amazon for $349 after rebate.

I agree. You can actually take advantage of microsoft live cashback and get an additional 25% off of the price if you buy it on ebay. the rebate is also available. The OCZ core series SSD works VERY well on the new mb, which is quite surprising because I had a lot of trouble with it on other chipsets. BTW, what program did you use to measure the read/write speed?

Sorry for being the tragic newbie with this question, but how does one replace the hard drive without losing the OS?

you would have to make an image of the old harddrive and then restore that image onto the new harddrive. however, if you have no data you want to use, you can simply reinstall the os on the new harddrive.

 

[Phat Ham]

Do you feel any vibration on the palmrest?

no, no vibration from the hard drive. I do feel vibration from the disk drive when the head is seeking.

 

[chapel321]

I just ordered the Seagate Momentum 7200.3 250G for my 2.0 Alu Macbook to replace my 160G Fuji. It was $81.98 including shipping from Tiger Direct. I hope I like it!

 

[chapel321]

I just ordered the Seagate Momentus 7200.3 250G for my 2.0 Alu Macbook to replace my 160G Fuji. It was $81.98 including shipping from Tiger Direct. I hope I like it!

 

[gpmac]

Hi all,

I am a happy mac user againg!! after many years of fighting windows I gave up.... could not resist the new macbook...

I have a Dell xps that i am giving to my brother (no, i don't hate him, i love him but he needs a laptop) long story short; that laptop has the momentus 7200.2 200 GB hard drive.

Should it find a happy place in my mac? i mean according to toms hw the momentus 7200.2 160 GB its better that the fuji 160 and in some test it is better than the momentus 7200.3. Does the performance of the momentus 7200.2 160 GB compare to the momentus 7200.2 200 GB?

What do you think? should i put it on the mac? will it make a difference in performance? battery time?

Ideas?

 

[clyde2801]

xbench results on another forum

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?p=4076560#post4076560

I was thinking about upgrading the HD to a 7200, then I found x bench scores from someone who did, and compared them to mine on my stock 5400 hard drive. They didn't seem to differ terribly much.

Has anyone upgraded the drive, and did it seem to make a noticeable difference in how the 'book performed on everyday tasks? Did applications load faster, or did it at least boot quicker?

I've been hearing complaints about noise and vibration with the 7200's, and I'm inclined NOT to upgrade, especially if you can't tell a noticeable difference in everyday use.

BTW, can anyone tell me what the number besides your login means?

 

[Philflow]

I got the Seagate and feel the vibration on the palmrest; anyone have ideas to get rid of the vibration?

Use little pieces of rubber between the drive and the case.

 

[clyde2801]

scorpio black

Installed the scorpio black. Made a difference in boot times, cold and hot app launches, shutdowns, the whole nine yards. Install, for an apple product, was ridiculously easy. Can definitely tell a difference.

Now, I've gotta find a hard drive enclosure for my stock hd.