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New WD 750GB Blue in my MBP

ayeying

ayeying

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Just got a 750GB, 5200RPM (A little slow.. RPM speed, hopefully the density will make it up) Western Digital Blue hard drive. It cost me $159 (slightly higher price then I would've liked to pay) but I used my card which would give me a 3% back, so i saved somewhat... whatever. I need the space and already carrying a 17", I don't want a backpack full of 2.5" external drives.

I spoke with a few people from Fry's (Whether or not you can trust them is your business, not mine) and they said that the 1TB model, they got the part numbers and such but never received a shipment for a couple of months now. So I'm guessing Western Digital built the 1TB models just only a few handfuls or none at all got the drives. I do know they made a custom port in their 1TB external drives, which makes it impossible to disassemble and put into a laptop.

Here's a few pix, it's cloning my internal hard drive over right now. 430GB worth of files/apps/yadada.. I wonder how I even survived with 128GB off the MBA :rolleyes:

Here's the specs for you nerdier people =p

Western Digital 750GB (WD7500KEVT)
SATA 3.0Gb/s
2.5-Inch @ 12.5mm height / 1,465,149,168 Sectors
8MB Cache
Average Latency: 5.7ms
Rotational Speed: 5200RPM
Average Drive Ready Time: 8 Seconds
Load/Unload Cycles: 600,000
Read/Write Power Usage: 1.7W
Idle Power Usage: 0.75W
StandBy/Sleep Power Usage: 0.18W
Average Acoustics (Idle): 24 dBA
Average Acoustics (Seek Mode): 25 dBA

I'll run any benchmarks you guys would like. Just ask, I won't bite.
 

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Gabriel GR said:
It uses 3 250GB platters?

Pretty nice. Too bad it doesn't seem to fit in Unibodies.
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It will fit into the Unibodies. All 13", 15" and 17" models. According to OWC:

http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Western%20Digital/WD7500KEVT/ said:
Fits all Apple MacBook & MacBook Pro 'Unibody' Models (13/15/17"), MacBook Pro 'pre-unibody' 17" models
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Where did you find it? Frys?

I have been looking for the 1tb model for a month now. They do seem nonexistent at this time. Perhaps I will settle for the 750...
 
Mactagonist said:
Where did you find it? Frys?

I have been looking for the 1tb model for a month now. They do seem nonexistent at this time. Perhaps I will settle for the 750...
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Fry's. I had to travel to a local frys thats 50 miles away, but I got it. Check online and see which stores are available near you.

1TB is a stretch right now. SeaGate has a 1TB drive but its 15mm thick, way too thick even for our Unibodies/Pre-Unibody 17".
 
Gabriel GR said:
Too bad it doesn't seem to fit in Unibodies.
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3-platters HDDs (750gb and 1tb WD Scorpio Blue) fit in all the Unibodies, a friend of mine got the 750gb in the uMBP 13".

The funny thing about the 1tb model is that the external USB version (WDBABM0010BBK) is cheaper and easier to find (at least here in Europe) than the internal version (WD10TPVT). So (at the moment) it would actually be worth buying the USB version and tearing it apart...
 
ayeying said:
1TB is a stretch right now. SeaGate has a 1TB drive but its 15mm thick, way too thick even for our Unibodies/Pre-Unibody 17".
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There's no 1tb Seagate laptop drive as far as I know.

750gb and 1tb WD are the same thickness, so you could have taken a 1tb drive.

Mobile drives from WD and Seagate:

- Seagate Momentus 5400.6, up to 640gb, 9.5mm
- Seagate Momentus 7200.4, up to 500gb, 9.5mm

- WD Scorpio Blue 2-platters, up to 640gb, 9.5mm
- WD Scorpio Blue 3-platters, 750gb or 1tb, 12.5mm
- WD Scorpio Black, up to 320gb, 9.5mm
 
Mroogle

The 12.5mm do fit, although not with Steve's blessing. There are a few members who have done this with their uni's.
 
gianly1985 said:
3-platters HDDs (750gb and 1tb WD Scorpio Blue) fit in all the Unibodies, a friend of mine got the 750gb in the uMBP 13".

The funny thing about the 1tb model is that the external USB version (WDBABM0010BBK) is cheaper and easier to find (at least here in Europe) than the internal version (WD10TPVT). So (at the moment) it would actually be worth buying the USB version and tearing it apart...
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You cannot use the external USB drives as internals anymore. They've changed the internal setup of the drive and the USB controller is now integrated on to the drive...you can't just take the USB part off and be left with a SATA connector anymore.
 
NewMacbookPlz said:
You cannot use the external USB drives as internals anymore. They've changed the internal setup of the drive and the USB controller is now integrated on to the drive...you can't just take the USB part off and be left with a SATA connector anymore.
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Sh*t...

Thank you, I was gonna buy the WDBABM0010BBK in the next few week to take the actual HDD out but now I'll stay away from it.
 
gianly1985 said:
There's no 1tb Seagate laptop drive as far as I know.

750gb and 1tb WD are the same thickness, so you could have taken a 1tb drive.

Mobile drives from WD and Seagate:

- Seagate Momentus 5400.6, up to 640gb, 9.5mm
- Seagate Momentus 7200.4, up to 500gb, 9.5mm

- WD Scorpio Blue 2-platters, up to 640gb, 9.5mm
- WD Scorpio Blue 3-platters, 750gb or 1tb, 12.5mm
- WD Scorpio Black, up to 320gb, 9.5mm
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They dont sell these drives bare because it's 15mm thick. But there are Seagate 1TB drives externally available.

http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/products/external/freeagent/freeagent_go/

I would have gotten a 1TB drive but I can't find it anywhere.
 
surgedc5 said:
they got 750GB, 880GB and 1TB
750GB
880GB
1TB

all 3 same size form factor 15mm thick
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Yes, as I said I didn't know. Then he told me and of course I checked the site out.

By the way, it's a pity that the FW800 Freeagent Go models tops at 500gb.....I'd buy a Freeagent Go for Mac 1tb + FW800 Dock anytime....
 
Could anyone tell me what external hard drive sled/enclosure is that shown while the files are being copied from the internal to the external hard drive?

Thanks for any help

mokeiko
 
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ayeying said:
I'll run any benchmarks you guys would like. Just ask, I won't bite.
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I'd be grateful if you'd run an Xbench test and post the disk-specific results. I'm thinking about buying the 750GB WD drive, and I'm interested in how much faster it is than the stock one in my MBP.
 
you just bought the KEVT version? today my WD10TPVT arrived. The drives coded with "PVT" already have advanced format meaning 4k sectors. guess this will greatly boost the performance of the drive. I'll post xBench later.

edit: there u go. xBench HDD

Drive Type WDC WD10TPVT-00HT5T0
Disk Test 59.16
Sequential 113.61
Uncached Write 143.34 88.01 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 139.60 78.98 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 66.56 19.48 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 165.48 83.17 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 39.99
Uncached Write 15.83 1.68 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 134.16 42.95 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 55.75 0.40 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 87.27 16.19 MB/sec [256K blocks]

hope this helps, sequential performance is great :)
 
i have the wd scorpio blue 1 TB in my new (late 09") unibody macbook pro its available now online. it used to be unavailable but it seems wd had a wave of shipments this month.
 
Here is what I get with my Seagate 500gb/7200RPM on my 2007 MBP

Disk Test 49.01
Sequential 86.87
Uncached Write 100.81 61.90 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 124.89 70.66 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 47.21 13.81 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 144.15 72.45 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 34.13
Uncached Write 10.93 1.16 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 154.70 49.53 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 82.98 0.59 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 139.23 25.84 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Also note, the drive is quite full. :(
 
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