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macbook pro max hard drive size?

bmorris

bmorris

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what deteremines the max hard drive for the early 08 macbook pro's?
is it the physical height? or is there a gb limit?

i saw this 500gb barracuda drive at bestbuy for $80 running at 7200 rpm and 16mb cache buffer. so it sounds good.

but is there anything coming out soon with higher rpm's or higher capacities for laptops? i know theres ssd but thats expensive and low capacity compared to sata for now.
 
bmorris said:
what deteremines the max hard drive for the early 08 macbook pro's?
is it the physical height? or is there a gb limit?

i saw this 500gb barracuda drive at bestbuy for $80 running at 7200 rpm and 16mb cache buffer. so it sounds good.

but is there anything coming out soon with higher rpm's or higher capacities for laptops? i know theres ssd but thats expensive and low capacity compared to sata for now.
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I'm most positive that there you would have zero trouble installing the drive. its not like its RAM where there's a limitation, its just storage.

You will get a ton of replies asking how you're getting the 500GB drive for just $80 though.

I checked best buy, the only 500GB 7200 rpm drive they have for $80 is for desktop only. you might be confused.

And no, 500GB @ 7200 rpm is the fastest and biggest you can go currently and that just came out, so there's nothing bigger or faster traditional HDDs for notebooks at the moment. if there's a 10K rpm drive, you notebook might fry.
 
As of now, the largest capacity that most of us can afford is a 500gb 2.5" SATA drive. Most any 2.5 SATA drive will fit in your MBP. The max you can put in only depends on the drives available.
 
Its unlikely that Hard Drives will get faster than 7200RPM, not because the manufacturers are unable to, because they are, but SSD Drives run at around the equivalent 40,000RPM so theres not really much point continuing to make older style disk drives, plus the SSD's are much cheaper for manufacturers to make.

At the moment the best you can get is 500GB at 7200RPM in a 2.5" laptop drive, however soon 1TB (1000GB) will be available, but not before the end of the year. If you wait for bigger hard drives you'll always be waiting, because they're always getting bigger.

$80 sounds a too cheap however, are you sure its a 2.5" drive and not a PC 3.5" drive? Could we see the link please.
 
good point, its a desktop hd.
but ive seen 500gb laptop drives for $99.

and yeah i know they always get bigger.
just wondering if something soon was getting faster than 72000.
ssd are ridiculous now for 500gb.
 
hand said:
I found the following web sites gave me the best information. Looks like as of May 2010, the 500GB 9.5mm thick option is the highest capacity option for my pre unibody Macbook pro 2.5 GHz 17" Core 2 Duo.

iFixit.com
MacBook Pro supports drives up to 9.5mm thick.
http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Repair/...-A1212-and-A1229-Hard-Drive-Replacement/319/1

OWC. Scroll to the hard drives.
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/memory/MacBook/Pro/Core2/
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Actually, the highest capacity is the 750GB WD Scorpio Blue WD7500BPVT.
 
ive seen a few posts from people that have used 12,5mm drives with no problems. but maybe 15"+
you can always send the drive back if it dont fit...

with 12,5mm you can get 1TB.
The Western Digital WD10TPVT 1 TB Scorpio Blue is the only 1TB drive i (and my hardware reseller ;)) know
 
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