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Run out of HD space, how big of HD can macbook work?

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apollosministry

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Run out of hard drive space due to pictures, movies, and music in itunes. I have been searching the web to see whats the largest capacity internal hard drive I can purchase to upgrade from my 250GB thats full? I have a:

Late 2008 unibody Macbook 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3, 250 GB hard drive

Can I get a 1 TB? I appreciate your help in this matter!
:D
 
apollosministry said:
Run out of hard drive space due to pictures, movies, and music in itunes. I have been searching the web to see whats the largest capacity internal hard drive I can purchase to upgrade from my 250GB thats full? I have a:

Late 2008 unibody Macbook 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3, 250 GB hard drive

Can I get a 1 TB? I appreciate your help in this matter!
:D
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Yes you can get 1 TB internal notebook hard drives. I like NewEgg, but you can get them elsewhere:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100007605 600030600&IsNodeId=1&name=1TB

Another option is to just move your large media to an external (portable) hard drive, and keep your internal drive for the OS, applications, and documents.
 
CyberBob859 said:
Yes you can get 1 TB internal notebook hard drives. I like NewEgg, but you can get them elsewhere:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100007605 600030600&IsNodeId=1&name=1TB

Another option is to just move your large media to an external (portable) hard drive, and keep your internal drive for the OS, applications, and documents.
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Great idea, and I did attempt to move my 50 GB of itunes to my external but found the functionality of always having to hook up my external a pain, and thought just upgrading to 1TB hard drive solves all my issues. Or is there another easy way to "get at" my itunes/iphoto/imovie files? I am concerned that if everythings on external than I can't get to anything media wise if I am not home or don't have external. ?suggestions.

I already moved itunes to external but would like to move it back if I get an internal HD.

Is 7200 RPM better than 5400 RPM?

Thanks so much!

;)
 
apollosministry said:
Is 7200 RPM better than 5400 RPM?

Thanks so much!

;)
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Yes, 7200 is better than 5400 in terms of speed. However, it will put a damper on your battery life. Do you use the battery a lot? If you do, it might not be a good idea to make that upgrade. But if it's plugged in most of the time, you'll reap a nice speed benefit, as 7200 can load from the HD a bit faster than than 5400 :) just weigh your usage and make a decision. Cheers!
 
Speed of Drives

I CTO all of my MacBook Pros and always get 7200 RPM HDs. If battery life is essential to you, then 5400 RPM maybe the way to go. There will be a difference in battery life, but I have not found it to be very significant. There is a noticeable speed bump; there has to be when the HD is almost 75% faster. My boot time and application start up time is much faster than on other laptops that I have that have the 5400 RPM HD. This is just my opinion, but I hope it helps.
 
mikedgolf40505 said:
There is a noticeable speed bump; there has to be when the HD is almost 75% faster.
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75% faster? Not sure what spec you are referring to, but in terms of rpm, 7200 is 33% faster than 5400. ;)

Not that that number translates directly into data throughput, but I also saw a slight bump in snappiness when I replaced my OEM MBP drive with a new 7200 rpm drive.
 
SuperCachetes said:
75% faster? Not sure what spec you are referring to, but in terms of rpm, 7200 is 33% faster than 5400. ;)

Not that that number translates directly into data throughput, but I also saw a slight bump in snappiness when I replaced my OEM MBP drive with a new 7200 rpm drive.
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I thought the number sounded funny, that is what I get for using the calculator on my MacBook Pro!! Sorry for the misinformation. What did you notice in the way of battery life? I found a big difference in what you termed snappiness; I wish I could afford a 512GB SSD, now that would be "snappy"!!
 
thanks for all your input!

Thanks for the discussion on 7200 rpm vs 5400 rpm, has anyone found an internal HD 1 TB with 7200 rpm?

Also, if you are wise (and i know you are) how do i move my itunes library back off the external so i don't have to carry that external around anymore?

thanks all!:)
 
apollosministry said:
Thanks for the discussion on 7200 rpm vs 5400 rpm, has anyone found an internal HD 1 TB with 7200 rpm?

Also, if you are wise (and i know you are) how do i move my itunes library back off the external so i don't have to carry that external around anymore?

thanks all!:)
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You can get a 640GB 7200RPM HD, that is the biggest I have found. I have seen 1TB configurations on an HP, but that two 500GB config. I just got back from the Apple store today, had to pick up the wife's MacBook Pro from repair, and had a chance to run some of the Mac laptops with SSDs and WOW there is a huge difference. Can't afford it now, but I think in the next year they will come down to a sane level. The popularity of smart phones and tablets will drive down the prices on SSDs. I hope this helps ;)!
 
mikedgolf40505 said:
You can get a 640GB 7200RPM HD, that is the biggest I have found. I have seen 1TB configurations on an HP, but that two 500GB config. I just got back from the Apple store today, had to pick up the wife's MacBook Pro from repair, and had a chance to run some of the Mac laptops with SSDs and WOW there is a huge difference. Can't afford it now, but I think in the next year they will come down to a sane level. The popularity of smart phones and tablets will drive down the prices on SSDs. I hope this helps ;)!
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Lastly, I cannot help you with the iTunes question. You may try syncing only the checked music. I have almost 40GBs in my library and had to chose some to trim to transfer to my 32GB iPhone4.
 
apollosministry said:
Thanks for the discussion on 7200 rpm vs 5400 rpm, has anyone found an internal HD 1 TB with 7200 rpm?

Also, if you are wise (and i know you are) how do i move my itunes library back off the external so i don't have to carry that external around anymore?

thanks all!:)
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Sorry to keep posting you to death, on the iTunes I was not quite clear. Go into your library and select to check all, then un-check the ones you do not with to sync. This will buy you some time until you get your new HD. Also PowerMax, Gainsaver, and Ebay are great sources for used Macs. One of them, either Powermax or Gainsaver will let you CTO your Mac, so you can get a large HD.
 
CyberBob859 said:
Yes you can get 1 TB internal notebook hard drives. I like NewEgg, but you can get them elsewhere:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100007605 600030600&IsNodeId=1&name=1TB

Another option is to just move your large media to an external (portable) hard drive, and keep your internal drive for the OS, applications, and documents.
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1 TB drives fit into the MacBook Pro, but not into any MacBook. The largest at the moment that will fit is 750 GB.

To the OP: Read the specs for the hard drive carefully. It has to be 2.5 inch, and it has to be 9 mm high. The 1 TB drives are 12 mm high, and they don't fit into the MacBook, only the MacBook Pro.
 
gnasher729 said:
1 TB drives fit into the MacBook Pro, but not into any MacBook. The largest at the moment that will fit is 750 GB.

To the OP: Read the specs for the hard drive carefully. It has to be 2.5 inch, and it has to be 9 mm high. The 1 TB drives are 12 mm high, and they don't fit into the MacBook, only the MacBook Pro.
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They fit I into any unibody MacBook / MacBook pro
 
mikedgolf40505 said:
Sorry to keep posting you to death, on the iTunes I was not quite clear. Go into your library and select to check all, then un-check the ones you do not with to sync. This will buy you some time until you get your new HD. Also PowerMax, Gainsaver, and Ebay are great sources for used Macs. One of them, either Powermax or Gainsaver will let you CTO your Mac, so you can get a large HD.
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Thanks for the suggestions, I am definitely gonna just get the 640 GB 7200RPM as this seems like ample space and its like $99. Thanks for your help! :)
 
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