My MBP harddrive failed and what would be the cheapest way to replace it?

[simsaladimbamba]

Can that hold in 1TB HDD? As is my MBP can only hold upto 500GB I heard.

If you have a Unibody MacBook Pro, your HDD bay can accept any HDD with a physical height of up to 12.5 mm, which means 1 TB HDDs will be accepted.
The Optibay adapter accepts HDDs with a maximum height of 9.5 mm, thus there can also be 1 TB HDDs be used in there, but you have to look closer at the specs.

 

[velocityg4]

Can that hold in 1TB HDD? As is my MBP can only hold upto 500GB I heard.

Maybe that was the largest available for a laptop when you bought it. SATA uses 48-bit LBA which is good up to 144 petabytes or 147,456 TB. Just be sure the drive is 9.5mm in height not 12.5mm. As it appears most of the 1TB models are 12.5mm but there are a few 9.5mm units.

 

[piatti]

Maybe that was the largest available for a laptop when you bought it. SATA uses 48-bit LBA which is good up to 144 petabytes or 147,456 TB. Just be sure the drive is 9.5mm in height not 12.5mm. As it appears most of the 1TB models are 12.5mm but there are a few 9.5mm units.

You mean you can actually fit that much ( 147K TB ) in my 2010 MBP?

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If you have a Unibody MacBook Pro, your HDD bay can accept any HDD with a physical height of up to 12.5 mm, which means 1 TB HDDs will be accepted.
The Optibay adapter accepts HDDs with a maximum height of 9.5 mm, thus there can also be 1 TB HDDs be used in there, but you have to look closer at the specs.

Is that true for even 2010 unibody MBP?

 

[simsaladimbamba]

You mean you can actually fit that much ( 147K TB ) in my 2010 MBP?

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Is that true for even 2010 unibody MBP?

There is no such drive in existence, it is just the THEORETICAL limit.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_block_addressing

 

[piatti]

But if I use the caddy, I wouldn't be able to use a CD with MBP?

 

[simsaladimbamba]

But if I use the caddy, I wouldn't be able to use a CD with MBP?

You could get an enclosure for the internal ODD and put it in there (MCE Tech and Hardwrk offer such things when buying an Optibay, but there are cheaper alternatives), or buy any available external ODD.

 

[goRoostr]

Why would you put a drive in the optical spot, if your just replacing a bad hd? Yes 9.5 will fit in your 2010 optical spot, along with all unibodys, the unibody case hasn't changed.

 

[piatti]

Why would you put a drive in the optical spot, if your just replacing a bad hd? Yes 9.5 will fit in your 2010 optical spot, along with all unibodys, the unibody case hasn't changed.

To be able to carry lots of movies and audio around, in addition to having the fastness of the SSD.

 

[piatti]

I replaced the HDD with the m4 SSD but it doesn't seem to fit snuggly. It makes floppy sounds and moves side to side and especially a falling sound when I flip the MBP over. Is this something I did wrong?

Is this where I should just bear with the flopping sound or something should be fixed?