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So does anyone installed 500GB HD in GLASS macbook/pro yet?
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As long as you get the right size (2.5") it should fit fine. I know Western Digital and Samsung both make them.
all 2.5" drives will fit. It's the standard size in the industry. Choice? You have only 2. WD 500gb and Samsung 500gb. Both are 150 on newegg. (WD has free shipping)
This isn't true. 2.5" drives have a height of 9.5mm or 12mm. The older 15" MBP could only handle 9.5mm drives but the 17" MBP could handle 12mm also. There hasn't been any technical information posted on the maximum for the new 15" MBP. It may or may not handle the 12mm drives.
Do you need to buy a WD hard drive with enclosure and crack it open? or do they do just the Drive be itself?
Ya, forgot that, must be 9.5mm in height for the 15"
yes, there is a "naked" or OEM version.
yes, there is a "naked"
or OEM version.7200
Waitin' for the 7200 version of the 500gb drives to come out in a few months (fingers crossed) before upgrading. :]
Waitin' for the 7200 version of the 500gb drives to come out in a few months (fingers crossed) before upgrading. :]
Yeah I went looking for a 500GB 7200rpm 2.5" drive but there isnt one! Ill wait till there is one.
Actually, just goofing around, I installed a Hitachi 500GB hard drive in my new generation MBP 15" last night. I was in Fry's Electronics over the weekend, and they had the Simpletech Signature series 500GB USB hard drive on sale for $119. Picked it up, and thinking about it once I got home, I cracked it open, curious to see what drive was in it. It was a Hitachi drive, exactly the same as the Hitachi drive that comes in the new MBP 15" (except for the 500GB of storage, of course). I replaced my 250GB with it, popped in the Leopard install disc, restored from a Time Machine backup, now I'm rocking along with double the storage of the standard MBP for not much more than Apple wants for the 320GB in the MBP.
Here is a link to the Simpletech drive I'm talking about. http://shop1.frys.com/product/5700662?site=sr:SEARCH:MAIN_RSLT_PG
Here is a link to the Simpletech drive I'm talking about. http://shop1.frys.com/product/5700662?site=sr:SEARCH:MAIN_RSLT_PG
Awesome... Sounds like a great idea. Thanks, I didn't know you could do that with Time Machine.
This is a little bit off topic, but if you also happened to have a Vista partition on the original HDD, how do you apply it to the new HDD?
Let's say I have a 60GB Vista partition on my original HDD. I go and buy a new HDD to replace the old one in my MBP. I want to move my Vista partition over to the new HDD and have it be 100GB instead of 60GB.
Is this possible to do?
I went searching around and found a program called WinClone that makes it possible to move Windows partitions between Macs, but can it do what I just described?
Sorry to hijack the thread, but I didn't want to crowd the forum with a whole new topic =\. Any help is greatly appreciated