New Internal Hard Drive on a late-2010 MacBook

[klm2]

My hard drive crashed and I will have to replace it with a new one. Any recommendations on what works best? I sometimes edit video and music on the MacBook so quality performance is a boon, but not a prerequisite.

I have considered Western Digital Blue, Green and Black as well as the Seagate Momentus XT.

Unfortunately, price is more of a concern than I would like it to be, but I'm willing to spend a bit more to have improved performance or memory.

Any suggestions?

Thanks!

 

[ybz90]

My hard drive crashed and I will have to replace it with a new one. Any recommendations on what works best? I sometimes edit video and music on the MacBook so quality performance is a boon, but not a prerequisite.

I have considered Western Digital Blue, Green and Black as well as the Seagate Momentus XT.

Unfortunately, price is more of a concern than I would like it to be, but I'm willing to spend a bit more to have improved performance or memory.

Any suggestions?

Thanks!

What are your capacity requirements? Since cost is an issue, you may wish to avoid an SSD, but I personally think they are well worth the price of entry, especially since they are pretty cheap nowadays for 128GB and below. Otherwise, I've had great success with WD drives, but I haven't bought a mechanical 2.5" in quite some time.

 

[klm2]

I'm quite interested in having 250 - 500 GB and to that end have found what appear to be quite sufficient and inexpensive options.

However, I'd be willing to compromise GB for performance if I could find an SSD with perhaps 150GB for somewhere near 100€

 

[slomo86]

The cost between 128GB and 240GB when talking about SSD's is about the same price as the 240GB. I was able to find a 240GB SSD on Amazon for about $150 or 112 Euro. I would spend that little extra to go with a SSD. If you look in the signature all I run is SSD's and wont look back at mechanical hard drives as a System drive...

Another option is to go with the smaller SSD now, and pick up a cheap 1TB external drive later on down the road. You can get one of those for $80 (60 Euro) and up.