Getting a new hard drive

[kj101]

My macbook pro (2010) has hard drive failure and I was looking at getting a replacement drive for it. I was wondering, if I purchase a toshiba hard drive (1tb) would this reduce my battery life? I was using the original Hitachi drive before (500gb)

 

[hallux]

You may see a slight decrease in battery life if you get a 7200 RPM drive vs. the standard 5400 RPM unit, but it likely won't be significant.

 

[JamesMike]

I would go with the 7200 rpm drive.

 

[mobilehaathi]

Definitely go for a 7200 drive, or if you can afford it an ssd.

 

[Samuelsan2001]

If you can afford it...

go with an ssd, it's worth having a smaller ssd and an external hd for the performance increase it brings.

Also that model is notorious for problems with the SATA cable it might be worth putting your HD in an external enclosure and seeing if it'll boot from that. If it does it's possibly just a $20 cable to fix.

 

[Natzoo]

i would go with an SSD!