New Hard Drive

[owensky]

Hey guys,
I have a 2006 MacBook Pro and it has a 100GB hard drive. I want to upgrade to a 500GB that I saw at Future Shop. There were ones by Western Digital and Seagate. Any preferences between the two? Also I believe it's a 2.5" but i'm not 100% sure. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

 

[simsaladimbamba]

MacBook, MacBook Pro: Replacing the Hard Disk Drive, transferring data to the new HDD​

How to format a new HDD/SSD to install Mac OS X or make a bootable copy onto​

I can't recommend an actual HDD brand though, as every HDD brand produces HDDs that will fail eventually. I have a Seagate Momentus since 2009 and it still works well.

 

[owensky]

Can I just time machine the old hdd then drag it all onto the new one?

 

[simsaladimbamba]

Can I just time machine the old hdd then drag it all onto the new one?

No.
Look at the guide I linked to on how to do it properly.

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[owensky]

Ok thanks for all the help I think i'm off to buy one tonight. It's for sure a 2.5" right?

 

[simsaladimbamba]

Ok thanks for all the help I think i'm off to buy one tonight. It's for sure a 2.5" right?

Yep.

All MB/MBPs accept 2.5" S-ATA HDD/HDDs, but there is also the "maximum height" issue to consider, as bigger capacity HDDs (currently the 1TB ones) are 12.5mm high and the HDDs offering smaller storage are 9.5mm high. All current Unibody MB/MBPs (white and aluminium) accept 12.5mm HDDs, the white/black MacBooks (from 2006 to 2009, the one with Firewire) and the aluminium 15" MacBook Pros (2006 to 2008) only accept 9.5mm HDDs. The 17" MBP (2006 to early 2009) does allow 12.5mm HDDs though.