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Has anyone who has upgraded your stock HD to a 500GB Scorpio Blue regretted it?
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That's really strange. Mine is literally virtually silent. I've yet to hear it click randomly *once*. Return it for another one, maybe?
Can I presume from this quote that my early 2008 Penryn MBP has 9.5mm deep 2.5 inch drive bay?
I saw the 1TB Scorpio Blue and thought "aww crap". but at a price of 250 MSRP, my 100$ 500gb is more than enough. I actualy have never issued any clicking. Just like i said the weird humming, or perhaps the "ear next to a seashell" example. gona try and use the piece of black foam that came with the macbook in the box and cut a little piece of foam the size of the hard drive and simply place it between the case and the drive. either that or try to re tighten the screws/rubber mounts for the hard drive.
I might take my 500GB out and put it in my PS3 if it's confirmed *FOR SURE* that the 1TB drive fits in a late 08/early 09 MBP.
Regarding the new 12.5mm drive, I've seen it mentioned on here that if you have one of the unbodies with the removeable battery, there might be enough space for one of these hdds.
As for the Scorpio Blue, I've installed it in to my 13" uMB and don't have any problems with excess noise compared to the original stock item. I went for the 500Gb 5400 rpm item.
As for the Scorpio Blue, I've installed it in to my 13" uMB and don't have any problems with excess noise compared to the original stock item. I went for the 500Gb 5400 rpm item.
I heard the new hard drives wouldnt fit the macbooks? Also concerning the hard drive. I wonder if its because you are in a louder environment perhaps? Or maybe you ended up with a quieter hard drive then the rest of us
I tried cutting up a piece of foam from the box of the macbook, but it still makes the little humming noise that only goes away when i rest my palm, or put my hand above the hard drive
I heard the new hard drives wouldnt fit the macbooks? Also concerning the hard drive. I wonder if its because you are in a louder environment perhaps? Or maybe you ended up with a quieter hard drive then the rest of us
I tried cutting up a piece of foam from the box of the macbook, but it still makes the little humming noise that only goes away when i rest my palm, or put my hand above the hard drive
Mine is perfectly quiet too. It hasn't randomly clicked even one time since I've owned it.
Glad I came across this thread, just ordered a 500GB Scorpio Blue and should be getting it on Friday, now know I have to get a T6 Torx lol, shall be doing that tomorrow. Glad to hear some other people with Unibody MBP's haven't been experiencing the clicking/noise issues, will report back on Friday evening on my experiences with it.
Yeah I havent experienced any clicking issues, just a loud whooshing sound, probably caused by vibrations. im going to RMA it and try the momentus from seagate.
Just search www.silentpcreview.com and search "scorpio blue" for the review
http://www.silentpcreview.com/500gb_laptop_drives
In case people were too lazy to search it up. Its a great site if your building a silent pc. used it many times and it has never failed me.
In case people were too lazy to search it up. Its a great site if your building a silent pc. used it many times and it has never failed me.
Only just seen your replies so took the lazy approach lol. Cheers for the link, really good article.
Well got my new drive this morning, fitted it around 10:30, had to install Leopard and then restore from Time Machine during set up, this was because I tried Utilities> Restore from Time Machine Back Up in the install stage after formatting the drive through Disk Utility, however it wouldn't show up during select destination drive. Also Reinstalled Win 7 RC Ultimate from a system image (that took 15-20 mins total, very impressed), my MBP is now back to exactly how it was before changing the drive and took less than 3 hours
Glad to report no clicking noises and the drive itself is only slightly more audible than the stock drive, still quiet enough for me in a silent room. Have a late 2008 Unibody MBP, very happy with the new drive.
So looks like the clicking/whooshing issue is not down to the Unibodies, possible something to do with batches?
Note: The drive itself has the 00ZAT0 prefix at the end of the model number and is dated 25th May 2009.
Glad to report no clicking noises and the drive itself is only slightly more audible than the stock drive, still quiet enough for me in a silent room. Have a late 2008 Unibody MBP, very happy with the new drive.
So looks like the clicking/whooshing issue is not down to the Unibodies, possible something to do with batches?
Note: The drive itself has the 00ZAT0 prefix at the end of the model number and is dated 25th May 2009.
Good to hear! Yeah, two of my friends installed theirs too in the last two weeks, and neither of them have had any noise/clicking issues at all either. I guess they've fixed the problem (unless everyone I know happens to be getting lucky).
I dont have ANY clicking issue in the Seagate momentus 5400.6, nor the Scorpio blue. However they both produce a whooshing sound that is gone when i press on the hard drive
bought myself a 500gb scorpio blue too, planning to upgrade my late2008 3oogb with this. Am an architecture student and its impossible to run 300gb with mac os and windows. sadly most of the programs needed runs on windows and requires tonnes of space.
Anyway, just to clarify.
there is no way i can install using the restore disc mac provide without first formatting the drive EXTERNALLY?
as in i cant swap the drive and load in the restore disc and mac will prompt to format my drive first before installation like in windows?
Anyway, just to clarify.
there is no way i can install using the restore disc mac provide without first formatting the drive EXTERNALLY?
as in i cant swap the drive and load in the restore disc and mac will prompt to format my drive first before installation like in windows?
Yes of course you can. After booting to the install disk, select "Disk Utility" from the "Utilities" menu. You can erase the boot drive from there. Once formating is complete, you can quit disk utility and return to installing OS X.
Thanks for the help! =)
am installing the os now..... just wondering if i hook up my old hardisk as an external hardisk now and plug it into the newly install os, what will i see?
possible to use it for storage with the remaining space available?
To those who have replaced their stock drives with this one: and advantage to Installing OS X then using Migration assistant to get the data over vs. just using CCC or Super Duper to create a bootable clone and throwing that directly in from the beginning? I cannot think of a downside, but perhaps someone has had a bad experience with the latter and thus recommends the former? (The latter just seems much quicker to me).
Migration/ or restoring from time machine would probably be much faster. I tried cloaing it on my windows machine (yes yes it was a major PITA just to get it to read HFS, and then clone it). But yeah, just time machine it
Does anyone know if there is any difference between the OEM and Retail versions of this drive?
Amazon is selling both but for some reason the retail box is cheaper.
Amazon is selling both but for some reason the retail box is cheaper.