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seagate 500gb 7200 rpm question

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I own a pre-unibody mbp (2.2 ghz, 8600GT, 4 gigs of ram) and have a seagate 500gb 7200rpm 2.5" drive in an external enclosure. I was thinking about installing it in the mbp, but it looks like you have to take the whole thing apart in order to do it. Also, I've heard on the forums that this particular drive has issues with the sudden motion sensors interfering with one another. So..

1. will this drive cause problems will the mbp or have those issues been addressed?
2. is the install all that difficult

Thanks!
 
I put this drive in my MacBook Pro 15".

No vibration problems at all, and honestly it actually runs cooler than the stock drive, the portion of the case where the HD is is the coolest section of the laptop. Very minimal effect on battery life.

Would I recommend it? Absolutely ...

Hardest thing was finding a #6 Torx bit. Installation took 10 minutes on my unibody, cant comment on the non unibody.
 
First of all, Seagate are crap. Pure garbage. Not deserving of a Mac

Stick to Hitachi or WD Black.
 
I installed a Seagate Momentus 500GB/7200rpm in my MacBook Pro3,1 and it's been working great.

For the WD fanboys, they don't have a 500GB/7200 option.
 
Razeus said:
First of all, Seagate are crap. Pure garbage. Not deserving of a Mac

Stick to Hitachi or WD Black.
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Actually, Apple used Seagates. For awhile it was the only maker of 500GB 7200rpm drives. If they don't decide what's worthy of a mac who does? ;)
 
Razeus said:
First of all, Seagate are crap. Pure garbage. Not deserving of a Mac

Stick to Hitachi or WD Black.
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hmm ok where are your sources? instead of the firmware issues which where fixed in the latest models btw.

i have the 250GB 7200.4 and its fine. no vibrating issues and max read speeds of 100 MB/s not complaining. little quiet seek noise here and there like normal.

joecool99 said:
Hitachi 500GB 7200rpm 2.5. better then seagate ?

these reviews indicate so - i've the Seagate 500GB 7200 in MBP and all is fine:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductReview.aspx?Item=22-145-275&SortField=0&SummaryType=0&Pagesize=100&SelectedRating=-1&PurchaseMark=&VideoOnlyMark=False&VendorMark=&Page=1&Keywords=%28keywords%29

does hitachi really has better performance ?
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i use Tom's hardware's average read speed chart for HDD speed ranking http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/...s/h2benchw-3.12-Avg-Read-Throughput,1110.html. the Hitachi 7K500 takes the ave read speed with the 7200.4 second.
 
Razeus said:
First of all, Seagate are crap. Pure garbage. Not deserving of a Mac

Stick to Hitachi or WD Black.
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Yep, 'cos those Hitachi ones are soo good! :)

I have nothing against Seagate. WD Blacks are noisy, I heard. That's why I chose the Seagate. 320 GB, with the sensor, a lot of buffer. It was around £45 ($70), which is a good deal. That stopped beachballs, what Snow Leopard couldn't do.
 
can anyone comment of the real world performance / noise difference ?

also does Hitachi makes 2 versions: with and w.o. free fall sensor as Seagate does ?
 
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