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Samsung or Western Digital 320GB Drive?

SeanEE89 said:
I've read around a little bit and from what people have been saying should I just go out and buy the 320GB Western Digital Passport and swap the drive in the Mac with the external one in the case?
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You can do that, but be warned that doing such voids your warranty of the external drive you're putting into your Mac. Moreover, a lot of external drives only have a 1 year warranty standard, whereas most OEM drives from WD and Samsung have a 3 year warranty, and Seagate has a 5 year warranty.

I would personally just get an OEM drive from Newegg and if you end up spending a little more, it's more than worth it because of the warranty.
 
djinn said:
Select the root drive, create a single partition, but also go into options and check GUID. By default it selects MBR. Try that.
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Worked like a charm....now to recoupe an hours lost time.

Thanks!!

So now I am going to copy Carbon Copy Cloner over to the WD passport..and clone my current Internal drive. The next question was by checking the GUID option, will my drive not become bootable, or will the clone handle that?
 
tekulvi said:
Worked like a charm....now to recoupe an hours lost time.

Thanks!!

So now I am going to copy Carbon Copy Cloner over to the WD passport..and clone my current Internal drive. The next question was by checking the GUID option, will my drive not become bootable, or will the clone handle that?
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I've never messed with Carbon Copy so others will have to answer that. Or maybe the process is listed on their site.

tmoney468 said:
You can do that, but be warned that doing such voids your warranty of the external drive you're putting into your Mac. Moreover, a lot of external drives only have a 1 year warranty standard, whereas most OEM drives from WD and Samsung have a 3 year warranty, and Seagate has a 5 year warranty.

I would personally just get an OEM drive from Newegg and if you end up spending a little more, it's more than worth it because of the warranty.
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For those that buy the passport from best buy and swap the drive out, here is your warranty information.

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Warranty Terms - Parts
3 years
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Warranty Terms - Labor
3 years
 
To my knowledge Toshiba, Hitachi and Samsung are suppose to be coming out with 500GB Hard Drives. Either way I will probably pick one up after I have seen them out for a while.

Thats right by swapping the Hard Drives do you expire the Western Digital Passport Warranty?
 
I can see it now. The new 500gig is coming next Tuesday, or the next one... oh wait.. the next one!!

Which comes first, new MBP or 500gig HDD?? :eek:
 
Ok. Formatting question. How do you format the new HD before cloning over??? Disk Utility right? I've read to make 1 partition? hfs+ or GUID or I have no idea. I've read so many different things about it that it's all lost all meaning to me... :(
 
Hmmm..... I did not know that about the Warranty that it only comes with a 1 year. I think I will just go with a OEM 320GB that way I'll have a little security.
 
SeanEE89 said:
Hmmm..... I did not know that about the Warranty that it only comes with a 1 year. I think I will just go with a OEM 320GB that way I'll have a little security.
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The external comes with a 3 year. If you end up having a problem swap it back.
 
Ohhhhh, now that is sneaky -- but I'd do it too :)

Of course, that is assuming the disassembly of the case doesn't require cutting any seals or causes irreversible "damage."

djinn said:
The external comes with a 3 year. If you end up having a problem swap it back.
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You can always tell WD that the lamesquad took apart to look at it for reassurance. :rolleyes:
 
smes3817 said:
Ok. Formatting question. How do you format the new HD before cloning over??? Disk Utility right? I've read to make 1 partition? hfs+ or GUID or I have no idea. I've read so many different things about it that it's all lost all meaning to me... :(
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You better have a plan, as in some cases you won't be able to get your Mac to boot from the optical drive, since the core system files aren't there at all when you drop a bare (blank) drive in.

I am waiting for my old 100G Hitachi to clone to my new 320G WD on my MBP right now. I booted with an external FW drive that had an emergency partition, which allowed the system to recognize my optical drive, changed it to the startup drive, rebooted with Drive Genius, and am now cloning my old drive to the new one. In about 90 minutes or less I'll have an exact copy of my old 100G drive on my new 320G, only now I'll have boatloads of space.

I highly recommend Drive Genius for this and for general troubleshooting. I wouldn't leave home without it.

MacDann
 
MacDann said:
You better have a plan, as in some cases you won't be able to get your Mac to boot from the optical drive, since the core system files aren't there at all when you drop a bare (blank) drive in.

I am waiting for my old 100G Hitachi to clone to my new 320G WD on my MBP right now. I booted with an external FW drive that had an emergency partition, which allowed the system to recognize my optical drive, changed it to the startup drive, rebooted with Drive Genius, and am now cloning my old drive to the new one. In about 90 minutes or less I'll have an exact copy of my old 100G drive on my new 320G, only now I'll have boatloads of space.

I highly recommend Drive Genius for this and for general troubleshooting. I wouldn't leave home without it.

MacDann
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so whats the difference between that and superduper and carboncopycloner if all your using it for is cloning?
 
MacDann said:
You better have a plan, as in some cases you won't be able to get your Mac to boot from the optical drive, since the core system files aren't there at all when you drop a bare (blank) drive in.

I am waiting for my old 100G Hitachi to clone to my new 320G WD on my MBP right now. I booted with an external FW drive that had an emergency partition, which allowed the system to recognize my optical drive, changed it to the startup drive, rebooted with Drive Genius, and am now cloning my old drive to the new one. In about 90 minutes or less I'll have an exact copy of my old 100G drive on my new 320G, only now I'll have boatloads of space.

I highly recommend Drive Genius for this and for general troubleshooting. I wouldn't leave home without it.

MacDann
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Thats not true. I didn't do any copy. I tossed the blank HDD in my mac, booted off the cdrom and did the install. What are these core files you speak of?
 
Fellows, the 500 Gb drive is 12.5 mm, not 9.5 mm... it won't fit in your MacBooks, just get the 320 from Western Digital, the company hasn't failed me yet. I had a 250 in my old MBP and I've got 2 500s in my Mac Pro, all wonderful drives.
 
neil321 said:
so whats the difference between that and superduper and carboncopycloner if all your using it for is cloning?
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Drive Genius has a lot more than cloning capabilities. Between it and Drive Genius and Disk Warrior you can fix anything, unless there's a hardware failure.

I do this for a living, so I have to have a toolbox that covers just about any situation. If it means anything, when you go to the Genius Bar, they're using Drive Genius for hardware troubleshooting.

As for the machine not recognizing the optical drive, I've had it happen more than once when replacing a drive with a new GUID partitioned drive, in MBPs. I don't know why and I can't explain it, suffice to say I've seen it. As far as I know it's a hardware issue that should allow you to boot from the optical drive no matter what, but I have seen this, which is why I come prepared with an external FW drive, just in case. Weird.

MacDann
 
iToaster said:
Fellows, the 500 Gb drive is 12.5 mm, not 9.5 mm... it won't fit in your MacBooks, just get the 320 from Western Digital, the company hasn't failed me yet. I had a 250 in my old MBP and I've got 2 500s in my Mac Pro, all wonderful drives.
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They are talking about the future release of the 500gig which will be 9.5mm. I know about the 12.5 which was said that laptop makers would need to build the laptop around the drive since it isn't standard.
 
MacDann said:
Drive Genius has a lot more than cloning capabilities. Between it and Drive Genius and Disk Warrior you can fix anything, unless there's a hardware failure.

I do this for a living, so I have to have a toolbox that covers just about any situation. If it means anything, when you go to the Genius Bar, they're using Drive Genius for hardware troubleshooting.

As for the machine not recognizing the optical drive, I've had it happen more than once when replacing a drive with a new GUID partitioned drive, in MBPs. I don't know why and I can't explain it, suffice to say I've seen it. As far as I know it's a hardware issue that should allow you to boot from the optical drive no matter what, but I have seen this, which is why I come prepared with an external FW drive, just in case. Weird.

MacDann
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Ok just googled it but is it worth the 99 bucks asking price?. When as far as i can see it
doesnt do anything more than disk utility and maybe a couple or so free apps can do?

To save me making another post the WD scorpio 32OGB is a great drive been using one since it was released
 
djinn said:
They are talking about the future release of the 500gig which will be 9.5mm. I know about the 12.5 which was said that laptop makers would need to build the laptop around the drive since it isn't standard.
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Have the 9.5mm versions been given a release date yet?
 
I wish I had seen that on dabs, I went and ordered a 320 from ebuyer, oh well I guess I will keep the old one as a spare. Also will it effect the apple acre I purchased with the machine?
 
WD is aweosome, they are really good quality...I just got one of these last week and it rocks!
 
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