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MacBook Pro HDD Upgrade (500GB)

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mgilks

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Sep 27, 2009
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Cheshire, UK
Hey,

I'm a fairly new mac user and i'm new to the macrumours forums, so please bear with me and welcome me :) However, i have been reading the Macrumours news pretty much daily to see what's going on.

I was wondering if anyone could advise what would be a good Hard Drive for my early 2009 MacBook Pro 15" Unibody.

Ideally I would like it to be 500GB+ with a low fan speed and low heat emissions... So I guess 5400 RPM would be best?

What is the 500GB hard drive that Apple use in their MacBook's?

Thanks so much

Matt
 
I think they use the Seagate 7200RPM, but I'm not sure, so don't quote me on that.

But I installed on my MBP 13" the Hitachi 500GB and it's the same as the stock 160GB Hitachi drive that came with the MBP. The HDD is as quite as the stock, as cool as the stock, but a bit faster because of the bigger cylinder density
 
I upgraded my MacBook Pro with a 500GB Seagate drive (model # ST9500325AS). I just went to BestBuy and picked up the largest capacity laptop hard drive and that's what they had. Used a howto guide from http://www.ifixit.com and a screwdriver set from Radioshack and did it all myself.


To find out your harddrive speed go to the Apple logo menu on the top left of the screen, click "About this Mac" then the "More Info..." button. This will launch the System Profiler app. On the left side panel under the "Hardware" section click "Serial-ATA" and it will give you all you want to know about your drive. Here is what mine looks like:

Code: 
Intel ICH7-M AHCI:

  Vendor:	Intel
  Product:	ICH7-M AHCI
  Speed:	1.5 Gigabit
  Description:	AHCI Version 1.10 Supported

ST9500325AS:

  Capacity:	500.11 GB (500,107,862,016 bytes)
  Model:	ST9500325AS                             
  Revision:	0001SDM1
  Serial Number:	            5VE0TB5L
  Native Command Queuing:	Yes
  Queue Depth:	32
  Removable Media:	No
  Detachable Drive:	No
  BSD Name:	disk0
  [B]Rotational Rate:	5400[/B]
  Partition Map Type:	GPT (GUID Partition Table)
  S.M.A.R.T. status:	Verified
  Volumes:
Macintosh HD:
  Capacity:	499.76 GB (499,763,888,128 bytes)
  Available:	244.18 GB (244,182,716,416 bytes)
  Writable:	Yes
  File System:	Journaled HFS+
  BSD Name:	disk0s2
  Mount Point:	/
 
Thanks for that guys, I like the idea of getting a Hitachi, similar or the same as the one that Apple use. Just purely because it will be almost identical, except larger and probably quicker!
 
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