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Ugghhh, Hard Drive Replacement Gone Bad

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CoffeeWarrior

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So I decided to upgrade my bastard child macbook unibody, poor little fella was jealous of its new cousins.

I got a 500 gig western digital scorpio blue and installed it. Then I noticed my macbook was making more noise. Kinda sounded like the fan was on low, upon further inspection it was the new hard drive. The stock Toshiba 160 gig is ultra quite so I was not expecting that. I thought I had a faulty drive so I returned it for a Seagate 500 Gig and the same annoying noise was there.

So after all that is said and done, I am back on my old stock hard drive

Sometimes I get the feeling apple is spoiling us with their nice choice of hardware (Excluding ****** displays)
 
CoffeeWarrior said:
So I decided to upgrade my bastard child macbook unibody, poor little fella was jealous of its new cousins.

I got a 500 gig western digital scorpio blue and installed it. Then I noticed my macbook was making more noise. Kinda sounded like the fan was on low, upon further inspection it was the new hard drive. The stock Toshiba 160 gig is ultra quite so I was not expecting that. I thought I had a faulty drive so I returned it for a Seagate 500 Gig and the same annoying noise was there.

So after all that is said and done, I am back on my old stock hard drive

Sometimes I get the feeling apple is spoiling us with their nice choice of hardware (Excluding ****** displays)
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I have been thinking of upgrading my 120GB HD, i have about 84GB free, so there really is no need right now, I save everything, iTunes songs, etc all on a 1TB external, so really I have no use, for right now, a bigger HD.
 
I just moved from the stocK 160 drive to two WD Scorpio Blue 500s via an Optibay and they are both completely silent. No change in noise over stock.
 
I recently upgraded a 15" mbp to the 500GB scorpio blue drive from WD. It's a really nice drive. Take a look at it on newegg, it has a lot of positive ratings. Sorry to hear you got a bad one.
 
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