WD Passport - Would this work?

[LERsince1991]

Hi would anyone please be able to tell me if I can buy this WD passport hard drive then swap the drives around with my unibody macbook?

Seems a really good price?! And looks like the older model where i believe people can swap the HD inside it?

need to know asap please?

Cheers!
Luke

 

[Hellhammer]

Can't see why not. If the case can be opened without breaking it, sure go ahead.

 

[spinnerlys]

It should work, as the Aluminium Unibody MacBooks accept 2.5" S-ATA 3.0Gbps HDDs with 12.5mm and 9.5mm height.

MRoogle is your friend.

 

[LERsince1991]

ordered it!
Fingers crossed lol!

 

[crazycat]

I have done the same around 8 months ago, i was upgrading my friends laptop hard drive. I would not recommend doing it that way, getting into the hard drive was a bit tricky for me but everything worked fine. Be extra careful opening the case without damaging the hard drive, the case wont survive the tripe

 

[LERsince1991]

The videos on youtube seem to show its quite easy and just pops off.
Will be getting it delivered tomorrow or tuesday

 

[DewGuy1999]

I don't know if that specific external hard drive is made like this or not, but many of the newer external hard drives are no longer made with a SATA drive and a interface converting it to USB, but a direct USB connection on the drive, meaning you can't take the drive out and put it into a computer with a SATA connector.

 

[LERsince1991]

I am aware of this change in the product.
I reckon this is the old version where I still can.
Doubt I would get the new version for such a price.
Think its a clearance thing - and looks like the old one

 

[LERsince1991]

All Done!
Completed the upgrade last night at 4am drunk - went perfectly

500GB inside an 250gb outside as well as a 1tb desktop media and backup drive

cheers
Luke