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WD Scorpio 320GB Hard Drive w. Macbook [Confirmed to be working]

neil321 said:
Dont forget by the time you have formatted it you only end
up with 298gb so would it be worth it?

hay just noticed you live in the same county as me
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Thats a good point, and I do have a massive video and music collection on the macbook that i never use (use it all on the imac).
Yeah, good old sunny Lincolnshire! :)
 
Shadow said:
Yesterday I received my Western Digital WD3200BEVT. ...
It works perfectly. ...
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Thanks for that. I just ordered the same from Komplett Norway, who finally started selling them. It won't ship for another week or so, but it's well worth the wait.

I now have a 200GB@4200, which I put into my MacBook (2.0 CD) myself, and I'm struggling to keep enough room tidy (and since upgrading to Leopard the System's need for Virtual Memory have just sky rocketed).

Going from a 4200 to a 5400 doesn't hurt, either, I guess... ;)

Ordered a lightweight, fanless enclosure for my old disk, at the same time... this time I won't hook it up to my AirPort Extreme like I did with the original disk I pulled from my MacBook... that disk was fried within an hour from overheating since the Extreme never spun it down... :(
 
RaceTripper said:
Not for a MacBook (or MBP). These drives use a third platter to achieve that storage capacity and are 3 mm thicker. They won't fit.
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I spoke a little too soon.

But I just saw this at http://www.macsonly.com :

Samsung Spinpoint M6 500GB 2.5" Notebook Drive out in March 2008--Fits Macs

Samsung announced at CES in Las Vegas that their Spinpoint M6 500GB 2.5" notebook hard disk drive is expected to be available in March 2008. The drive will be 9.5mm tall so it will fit in Apple MacBooks, MacBook Pros, PowerBook G4s and iBooks.

According to Samsung, its new Spinpoint M6 500GB consists of three 166GB platters in a 2.5" hard disk drive frame measuring just 9.5mm in height. In addition, the Spinpoint M6 500GB hard drive features a 5400rpm spindle speed, a 8MB cache, and 3.0Gbps SATA interface with a free fall sensor and a rotational vibration sensor available as optional features.

Perpendicular Magnetic Recording technology enables the 500GB drive to store 160,000 digital images, 125 hours of DVD movies, or 60 hours of high definition video images. The drive also features Samsung’s Flying on Demand head technology that improves recording stability over changing temperature ranges.

When available, the Samsung Spinpoint M6 500GB drive will be the largest capacity drive available for Apple's notebook computers. No pricing was announced.
 
I have the 320 installed and working great in my laptop! I am hoping for a fitting 500gb to come out soon!
 
I've had my 320GB installed for a couple of weeks now. I bought the WD Passport - it was $189 @ BB and I was able to open it up without anyproblems and use the enclosure for my original 160GB drive.

My temp is currently at 37c, which is about where it usually was on my original drive.

As for the 500GB - I saw a note that one other vendor released a 9.5mm SATA drive yesterday at CES - I want to say its Toshiba but I'm not 100% positive.

EDIT: Its a Samsung, not Toshiba: Linkie-poo (and a linkie-loo for the UK'ers)

Either way - 320 is MORE than enough for me for the forseeable future so no buyers remorse there (yet!)
 
does using the 320gb drive retain all the MBP's safety features?

like thefeature where it detects the computers falling it stops the drive or something like that?
 
Xquizit said:
does using the 320gb drive retain all the MBP's safety features?

like thefeature where it detects the computers falling it stops the drive or something like that?
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Those features are drive-independent. They're a feature of the logic board.
 
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Had it installed for a few days in my "old" 2.0 CD MacBook now...

Going from a nearly full 200GB@4200 to a half full 320GB@5400 was awesome... the machine feels just so much more - dare I say it - snappier... :D

Just needed to format it into HFS+ with Guid partition table and did a fresh install of Leopard, used migration assistant on first restart and got back my stuff™ from the old disk, now in a cheap USB enclosure.

I'm very happy... it was a lot cheaper than upgrading to a MBP... :p
 
neil321 said:
ok thanks best get ordering one then
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Just follow proper opening procedures when you're opening your MBP. Careful not to be too impatient and bend part of the aluminum casing. Mark down the screws, i.e. where they were removed from, etc. You don't want to be mixing sizes.

Have fun,

Daze
 
I've had my 320GB installed for a couple of weeks now. I bought the WD Passport - it was $189 @ BB and I was able to open it up without anyproblems and use the enclosure for my original 160GB drive.
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awesome, I was wondering if that would work. I'm about to purchase either a 250GB or 320 GB passport in the next week or so.
 
Has anyone put a WD Passport 320GB in a MacBook? Will the drive in the 320 Passport fit? I was planning on buying this drive and upgrading my 80GB stock drive in my MacBook.
 
iJerald said:
Has anyone put a WD Passport 320GB in a MacBook? Will the drive in the 320 Passport fit? I was planning on buying this drive and upgrading my 80GB stock drive in my MacBook.
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It should fit. It's a standard 2.5", 9.5mm form factor SATA drive.
 
Shadow said:
I had one of those lying around :eek:
For those interested, instructions on how to replace the MacBook Pro's HD are found here. Its far more complicated than the MacBook and unfortunately it does void your warranty, unlike the MacBook.

In total, I needed all these things to replace it (as I never did list properly):
  • Torx T8 Screwdriver (cost me £2 for a set)
  • Phillips Screwdriver (not sure what size but its very small)
  • Leopard install disks

ooberpongo, its very easy to change the partition type, just use the partition tab in Disk Utility.
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Apple Warranty: Installing Memory, Expansion Cards, User Installable Parts Does Not Void Warranty

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=13946
 
A hard drive upgrade on the MBP is not considered as being a user-installable task by Apple, therefore the warranty is voided. This has been gone over many times.
 
Hls811 said:
I've had my 320GB installed for a couple of weeks now. I bought the WD Passport - it was $189 @ BB and I was able to open it up without anyproblems and use the enclosure for my original 160GB drive.
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What exactly did you have to do to open it up? Is it really easy? Is it the exact same drive as the scorpio? that's a great price. I'm about to pull the trigger here so let me know.
 
does the Passport version of the 320gb hd have a slower cache? if so is it worth buying the passport version to swap out with?

thanks
 
Csmitte said:
does the Passport version of the 320gb hd have a slower cache? if so is it worth buying the passport version to swap out with?

thanks
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It has a smaller cache, 2MB rather than 8MB, compared to the retail/OEM version of the drive.
 
I just installed a Samsung Spinpoint M6 320GB drive in my Macbook Pro.

My laptop originally came with the 200GB 4200RPM Toshiba which was pretty slow.

The Samsung drive is even newer than the WD. It's a SATA 1.5 interface but that doesn't matter at all as the one drive will never saturate the bus.

It's a 8MB cache, 5400 RPM drive and it competes directly with the WD Scorpio.

So far so good and the bump in performance from the 4200RPM drive is amazing.
 
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