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Insane 320GB laptop hard drive

crazycat

crazycat

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I was looking at western digital site last night and saw that they were selling a 320GB 5400 2.5 hard drive. This would be perfect for my 15" MacBook Pro. Has anyone tried this drive yet or has any warning about it since i heard bad things about internal Western Digital hard drives. I would like to add that i am using an external western digital hard drive and its working great so far.
 
I have no idea if the drive is any good or not, but make sure you check the height. Only 9.5mm drives will fit into the MB/MBP. 12mm drives won't.
 
This drive and the Toshiba 320GB drive are both 9.5mm tall and should fit.

In regards to quality, don't listen to random people complaining about one manufacturer or another. All these complaints mean is that one person had one drive fail. No manufacturer will be able to have a 0% failure rate. Another source of complaints are the result of highly publicized drive issues. They have all had major issues at one time or another. After each of these issues people like to complain about that manufacturer for awhile. Maxtor, Hitachi (formerly IBM), Western Digital, Seagate, Toshiba, et al. are all about the same quality, have similar fail rates and similar warranties.
 
newbie here planing to buy MB...

I want to upgrade 1 month later. So what i understand is any notebook 2.5" HD 9.5mm thick is fine for MB, am i right ?

Also there are 7200 rpm drives, will they work in my MB if i buy one ?

and last are 7200 rpm drives suck more battery than 5400 ? How about heat issue ?
Thanks alot
 
orionlogic said:
I want to upgrade the 1 month later. So what i understand is any notebook 2.5" HD 9.5mm thick is fine for MB, am i right ?

Also there are 7200 rpm drives, will they work in my MB if i buy one ?

and last are 7200 rpm drives suck more battery than 5400 ? How about heat issue ?
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Yes, any SATA, 2.5", 9.5mm drive is fine (but you cannot use a PATA drive).

7200RPM is fine, as is any other RPM.

In general, when people have tried to do systematic testing, I've never seen evidence that the 7200RPM drives use up a lot more or less battery power (both arguments have been made) or generate excessive heat.
 
has anyone been able to find this drive available at store? online or other? I'm in the UK and I've searched every store that WD list on their website as being their local distributors, but can't find it anyhwere. None of them have it listed even, let alone give a price.

Has anyone in the US seen this in stores yet? If so, could you please give the price quoted. If its reasonable I think i'll wait a month or two for this to be available in the UK and then get this instead of a 250GB right now.
 
Toshiba announced a few weeks ago that by next year they would have a 240Gb 1.5"(iPod), and by early 2009 a 1Tb 2.5"(Laptop) as well as a 3Tb 2.5"(Desktop). I am holding off buying a laptop until they have at least 500Gb Hard drive space(plus I am in college and have no money).:apple:
 
Mushrooshi said:
Nooby question, does the MB have space for 2 HDD?
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Only if you remove the CD/DVD drive. Only recommended if you are very adventurous. There are companies doing it for you at a price. Obviously you won't have a CD or DVD drive anymore.
 
georgeoommen said:
has anyone been able to find this drive available at store? online or other? I'm in the UK and I've searched every store that WD list on their website as being their local distributors, but can't find it anyhwere. None of them have it listed even, let alone give a price.

Has anyone in the US seen this in stores yet? If so, could you please give the price quoted. If its reasonable I think i'll wait a month or two for this to be available in the UK and then get this instead of a 250GB right now.
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I just bought a 250GB internal drive, so the question was: Should I kick myself or not? The answer is no. I paid £88 for 250GB. This one is $199 in the US for 320GB, that is £97 plus 17.5% plus a few percent for getting it to the UK, so you will look at £125 to £130 at least. That's £37 to £42 more for 70GB.
 
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