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The.316

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I want to upgrade my hard drive in my late 09 27 incher. I read somewhere that if I have a Seagate drive in it now, I would have to go with a Seagate drive if I want to upgrade, is that correct? Im thinking about just removing the current HD, and replacing it with a SSD drive, and just use an external FW drive I have as backup, but Im not sure yet. If I just go with the standard 2TB drive, does anyone have any suggestions? These are what I was looking at:

http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=610

Caviar Black

Caviar Green

Seagate Barracuda XT

Those are available through the company we order stuff from, and all are 2TB sizes. Any thoughts on them?

Edit: I just noticed that this is my current HD:

Model: WDC WD1001FALS-40U9B0

Which by Google'ng it, showed it was a WD Caviar Black. This was stock from Apple. Is that common?
 
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