Highest Capacity HD

[ColinEC]

What's the highest capacity 7200RPM the new MacBook Pro's can accept?

I see that you can put in a 500GB HD, but can it go any higher?

I'd love to have a large capacity drive for multiple OS's, and a Time Machine partition.


Also, can you purchase RAM and take it to an Apple Store for the people at the Genius Bar to install? I was thinking about upgrading the RAM myself, but I'm afraid I would damage the MBP some how.

 

[Tallest Skil]

500GB because that is all that is made.

 

[themoonisdown09]

I'd love to have a large capacity drive for multiple OS's, and a Time Machine partition.

There's no point in using Time Machine if you're backing your stuff to the same hard drive that the original data is on. If the hard drive crashes, you lose the original and the back up.

 

[ColinEC]

Thanks for the quick replies.

If I were to buy a 500GB HD, what is the best brand to get (quiet and reliable, something that won't die in a few years)?

There's no point in using Time Machine if you're backing your stuff to the same hard drive that the original data is on. If the hard drive crashes, you lose the original and the back up.

Well that was dumb of me

I use Time Machine just incase I delete a file, I completely forgot about the possibility of an HD crash.

 

[Nipz]

There's no point in using Time Machine if you're backing your stuff to the same hard drive that the original data is on. If the hard drive crashes, you lose the original and the back up.

Yea the idea of TM is that up back it up on a different HD

 

[dr. shdw]

500gb Seagate Momentus 7200.4 ST9500420AS

 

[cherry su]

512GB SSDs are on the horizon and will be super expensive

 

[yaemes]

toshiba is putting out a 500gb hard drive by the end of the month that is better than the competition in almost every way... the part number is MK5055GSX. i'd recommend you wait for that

 

[pinback pro]

toshiba is putting out a 500gb hard drive by the end of the month that is better than the competition in almost every way... the part number is MK5055GSX. i'd recommend you wait for that

have you used this drive? how do you know its better?

 

[Racerdog55]

Toshiba HD

According to the Toshiba web site the info on that model hard drive is a 5400 rpm . not 7200rpm

 

[alphaod]

According to the Toshiba web site the info on that model hard drive is a 5400 rpm . not 7200rpm

They only make 5400RPM drives ATM. However a 7200RPM version should come out soon and I will make sure I score one.

 

[pinback pro]

this was posted in another thread. very promising. very awesome.

 

[dr. shdw]

this was posted in another thread. very promising. very awesome.

hella expensive.

 

[yaemes]

oh, wow, i was unaware of the 500gb seagate 7200 rpm laptop drive... heres my txt file on 500 gig hard drives... this is to help me decided which one to buy but i figured someone here might benefit from it.

			Samsung		WD		Fujitsu		Toshiba		Seagate
									MK5055GSX	ST9500420AS

---TIMES--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------		
Average Seek Time	12 ms		12 ms		12 ms		12 ms		12 ms
Latency			5.6 ms		5.5 ms		5.5 ms		n/a		4.1 ms
Ready Time		5 sec		n/a		n/a		n/a		n/a

---NOISE LEVELS-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Idle			25 dBA		24dBA		22 dBA		25 dBa
Performance Seek	27 dBA		26dBA		24 dBA		25 dBa

---POWER USAGES-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Seek			2.6 W		n/a		2.3 W		1.7 w
Read/Write		2.4 W		2.5 W		1.9 W		1.4 w
Sleep			0.2 W		0.1 W		0.1 W		unavailable
Weight			115 g		117 g		unavailable	102 g