macbook hard drive upgrade

[anschnaller]

My hard drive went out on my macbook (late 07 model black). So while replacing my hard drive i am looking to upgrade too. but i don't know what hard drive to put in it. i was looking at many different ones but i heard that it can not be bigger than 9.5mm and that knocks out the hard drive that i was looking at.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/t..._shr?_encoding=UTF8&m=A1AM293OQ2PVYW&v=glance

i really would like something like it. does anyone have and suggestions?

 

[flopticalcube]

That drive will work fine. See the specs: http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=477

Use pricegrabber to find it for under $100

 

[anschnaller]

my bad i was going by the amazon dimensions thanks for the quick reply
now i have another question. is there going to be a large read/write speed difference between that hard drive and this one.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/t...t_shr?_encoding=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&v=glance

I do a lot of media work so i would like the extra space but not if it is going to slow me down.

 

[milton.sheaf]

my bad i was going by the amazon dimensions

What on earth are you talking about? What exactly are the "amazon dimensions" and why do you think they're wrong? That is a 2.5" drive with 9mm height and everything on the Amazon link you provided is correct.

 

[cubeeggs]

You can actually get up to a 500 GB drive that runs at 7200 RPM ($105 on Newegg) or a 640 GB that runs at 5400 RPM ($120 on Newegg). Both are cheaper than the 320 GB you’re looking at on Amazon.

A larger drive at the same speed is actually probably going to be faster, because the data is stored more densely on the platters.

 

[flopticalcube]

What on earth are you talking about? What exactly are the "amazon dimensions" and why do you think they're wrong? That is a 2.5" drive with 9mm height and everything on the Amazon link you provided is correct.

Amazon lists it at 0.5" (12.5mm) high for some reason.

Product Dimensions: 3.9 x 2.8 x 0.5 inches ; 4.2 ounces