I disassembled my Passport 250gb. There is a plugin USB adapter. You unplug it, its a standard SATA drive.
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Going from 500GB to 1TB in my Unibody MacBook!
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I disassembled my Passport 250gb. There is a plugin USB adapter. You unplug it, its a standard SATA drive.
i have read people saying that their macs took much longer to boot up than with a normal 5400 rpm drive, can the OP or anyone else elaborate on this? I really want to do this mod but if the load times are indeed slower than with a 5400/7200 then i'm running the other direction.
My boot and load times are no slower than stock. The system feels pretty much the same as the stock 250GB drive. I only have about 200GBs remaining on it though and I have noticed it slow just a bit. Probably more from just file fragmenting than how full it is.
The ultimate solution would be to RAID 0 two of these 1TB drives using the OWC Disk Doubler. That would give you a 2TB striped RAID array at double the speed!!
The OWC solution claims a limit of a 9.5mm height drive, which would eliminate the 12.5mm 1TB drive currently on the market. If someone has successfully placed one of these drives with this or any other OD replacement solution, I would like to hear about it!
If you can't do two 1TB drives using one of them in the optical bay, then you could do two 512GB SSD drives, and RAID 0 them, but this upgrade would set you back about $3000!
I had a 1TB drive in my mbp 15", but opted for the speed of an SSD. If I could install the 1TB in the optical bay, I would.
Anybody see the new Seagate GoFlex 1.5tb drives? They're external, but I can't find anyone tearing them open (750gb or 1tb, the 1.5tb were just released) and installing them in Macbook Pros.
I heard about these 1.5TB 2.5" drives going on sale near the end of this year. I know Toshiba is going to be making one. This plus an SSD in the optical bay would be legit!
The current 13" MacBook Pro (aluminium, unibody) was at some point in the past called a "MacBook". So 12.5mm fits into a 13" aluminium unibody MacBook which is just a MacBook Pro before the name change, it doesn't fit into a 13" white or black MacBook.
I think you can use disk utility to clone the entire HD, not just a partition. You would drag the hard drive over to source instead.
Had trouble with WD 640 so...
Went back to stock Hitachi 320 for awhile. That was much faster.
Last week, I went ahead and ordered/installed the WD 1tb. I did a fresh install of Snow Leopard, moved my personal files over, reinstalled programs. And man, this puppy is even faster than my hitachi was. I have 400gb of it full too.
LOVE IT.
15" MB Pro ver 6,2
Went back to stock Hitachi 320 for awhile. That was much faster.
Last week, I went ahead and ordered/installed the WD 1tb. I did a fresh install of Snow Leopard, moved my personal files over, reinstalled programs. And man, this puppy is even faster than my hitachi was. I have 400gb of it full too.
LOVE IT.
15" MB Pro ver 6,2
This is the one aint it?
http://www.amazon.co.uk/214710-West...K0TU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1286878269&sr=8-1
http://www.amazon.co.uk/214710-West...K0TU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1286878269&sr=8-1
That's not in stock. This is the one I bought:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136545
Seagate goflex 1.5 tb
The local Best Buy has these in stock: http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Seagate...lack/1305576.p?id=1218249064843&skuId=1305576
Although the pic is of a desktop drive,on Best Buy's site, the model number matches up to the 1.5 tb portable drive on Seagate's website. Now, to just come up with some cash and some time for a disassembly and install. When that happens, I'll let you guys know and hopefully post some pics too. $230 is a lot for a 1.5 tb drive.
The local Best Buy has these in stock: http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Seagate...lack/1305576.p?id=1218249064843&skuId=1305576
Although the pic is of a desktop drive,on Best Buy's site, the model number matches up to the 1.5 tb portable drive on Seagate's website. Now, to just come up with some cash and some time for a disassembly and install. When that happens, I'll let you guys know and hopefully post some pics too. $230 is a lot for a 1.5 tb drive.
Anyone know of any videos of a Seagate GoFlex portable drive disassembly? I know it's supposed to be SATA, but I haven't been able to dig one up. Plus, as I said before, $230 for a 1.5tb drive is pretty expensive. But, that amount of space will fit my needs perfectly!!
This is taken from another thread:
Looks like SATA to me. Good luck with the install and post up some pics, maybe a video too, if and when you upgrade!
Thanks for the pics and post. Looks like it's a little too thick for my tastes. I'll go with the 1 tb for now. Unless someone else wants to try.
seems like my macbook pro is going a lot slower now. I upgraded to the 1TB 5200RPM from a 500GB 7200RPM.
But with three platters compared to two, I keep reading it should be close to the same speed...
currently repairing permissions for the 3rd or 4th time though, so that is probably taking the hit on speed.
I have 8GB of RAM and an i7, so I don't think it should matter much. But when I open a web browser I get the spinning rainbow for quite a few seconds almost every time.
But with three platters compared to two, I keep reading it should be close to the same speed...
currently repairing permissions for the 3rd or 4th time though, so that is probably taking the hit on speed.
I have 8GB of RAM and an i7, so I don't think it should matter much. But when I open a web browser I get the spinning rainbow for quite a few seconds almost every time.