Upgrading Hard Drive on Early 2011 Macbook Pro

[rickbull]

I need to upgrade my internal drive on my Early 2011 Macbook Pro. Can anyone tell me, definitively, if it will accept a 2TB drive? I asked at the Genius Bar and they couldn't tell me for certain.

 

[T5BRICK]

I need to upgrade my internal drive on my Early 2011 Macbook Pro. Can anyone tell me, definitively, if it will accept a 2TB drive? I asked at the Genius Bar and they couldn't tell me for certain.

Pretty sure new macs support up to 8 exabytes. It'll work fine.

 

[rickbull]

T5BRICK - This is not a new Mac. It is an Early 2011 Macbook Pro.

 

[rickbull]

Does anyone else know, for sure, if I can install a 2TB drive in my Early 2011 MacBook Pro?

 

[Samuelsan2001]

As long as it is a standard sata drive 2.5 inch then yes.

 

[T5BRICK]

T5BRICK - This is not a new Mac. It is an Early 2011 Macbook Pro.

It's new enough.

OSX 10.4 and newer support 8 exabytes. SATA basically has no upper addressing limit, at least nothing that we'll see anytime soon.

 

[TheIguana]

The amount of storage it has isn't a problem so much as the actual size of the drive. If I recall correctly, most of these Macs can't hold a drive that has a height taller than 9.5mm.

 

[MagicBoy]

The unibodies will take a 12.5mm height drive fine.

 

[snaky69]

I need to upgrade my internal drive on my Early 2011 Macbook Pro. Can anyone tell me, definitively, if it will accept a 2TB drive? I asked at the Genius Bar and they couldn't tell me for certain.

So long as it physically fits the machine, yes it will.