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Going from 500GB to 1TB in my Unibody MacBook!

Does the battery cover bulge when putting the WD 1TB WD10TPVT in a 15" MBP? Or does in close flush?

Is there any way to tell if the WD Passport 1tb has sata or not?
 
ringwormcletus said:
Does the battery cover bulge when putting the WD 1TB WD10TPVT in a 15" MBP? Or does in close flush?

Is there any way to tell if the WD Passport 1tb has sata or not?
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The passport uses a native USB controller on the drive. Do not expect to crack one open and place it in you MBP.

I have a 1TB Scorpio in my 15" MBP. It work perfectly. I can take my songs, a few movies and photos with me without a battery draining external drive.
 
deus ex machina said:
The passport uses a native USB controller on the drive. Do not expect to crack one open and place it in you MBP.

I have a 1TB Scorpio in my 15" MBP. It work perfectly. I can take my songs, a few movies and photos with me without a battery draining external drive.
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Yes, but does the battery cover bulge, or is it flush? Yours is a unibody? Any pics?
 
Chase R said:
It fits just like an OEM drive, flush and it does not bulge. The unibodies were engineered to accept the taller HDD.
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@Chase R: That's what has been holding me back. I know that it would fit, just worried about the height. I still haven't seen any pics or video anywhere that shows the cover closed without a bulge.
 
ringwormcletus said:
@Chase R: That's what has been holding me back. I know that it would fit, just worried about the height. I still haven't seen any pics or video anywhere that shows the cover closed without a bulge.
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I done it but on the new i7 15". I can see ut sig, why don't u open up urs and with ur old drive there why not pack it up with some cartboard/rubber or thick paper and measure it to be 12.5mm. And just close the base see if it fits

easy!

Cheers
 
I just did the same thing.

I bought one of these 1TB drives from Amazon, installed it (it fit just fine) in my 13" unibody 2010, but when I put in the OSX disc to install, I kept getting the grey screen of death. Carbon Copy Cloner was able to clone to it, but when I booted up, it got to the desktop and then grey screened again. Applecare said they don't support 3rd party, WD said it was the HD messing up. SEnt it back to Amazon, got a replacement. Cloned it, installed it, and it seems to be working just fine.
 
is there any performance suffrage from 5400 > 5200 speed? i have the seagate 640 right now and i keep eyeing this drive but 5400 is already slow as it is! im used to 7200 drives :/
 
ihonda said:
is there any performance suffrage from 5400 > 5200 speed? i have the seagate 640 right now and i keep eyeing this drive but 5400 is already slow as it is! im used to 7200 drives :/
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Its the same performance as a 5400rpm. Its density makes 200 less RPM not that noticeable.
 
hm, now to figure out if the extra space is really needed or not. the 640gb cost me $40 when its all said and done after ebay bucks and what not.
 
I just put the wd 1 tb in my mp3 13 2010 and it doesn't seem to read the drive, I cannot install os x on it. What should I do?
 
Deedz said:
I just put the wd 1 tb in my mp3 13 2010 and it doesn't seem to read the drive, I cannot install os x on it. What should I do?
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Did you boot from the OS X DVD? Go to Utilities, Disk Utility, select the new drive and format it. Then install OS X.
 
No WD spin issues?

I have the late 09 (15" Pro, 2.4 i5) unibody and i swapped out the 320gb hitachi for a WD Scorpio 640gb. I had VERY frequent spinup/spindown issues. It became a big annoyance and caused frequent daily pinwheels.
You have not had any issues with either of the WD drives you installed?
 
ShamanRawb said:
I have the late 09 (15" Pro, 2.4 i5) unibody and i swapped out the 320gb hitachi for a WD Scorpio 640gb. I had VERY frequent spinup/spindown issues. It became a big annoyance and caused frequent daily pinwheels.
You have not had any issues with either of the WD drives you installed?
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You mean issues with your hard drive spinning up and down from going to sleep? I don't set my HD to go to sleep/spindown when not in use so I'm not sure. I can tell you that I'm close to swapping the optical drive for an SSD. The 1TB drive isn't the fastest thing around; it's about the same as the stock drive. Probably just a 64GB will do.
 
I installed the WD 1TB 5200 hard drive in my 17" MBP Unibody a couple months ago and have had zero problems. It runs great.
 
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