What's A Good 2.5" Hard Drive To Install on a MBP?

[rekhyt]

For my previous MacBook upgrades, I had used a Hitachi hard drive that failed (Never using Hitachi again) and to replace that, a WD Scorpio, which had been pretty nice.

I'm planning on upgrading the HD on my MacBook Pro, as I am running out of space. (20Gb left and it's a bit sluggish right now. Maybe it's the lack of RAM too, but I'm going to do some disk-space intensive stuff soon.)

What would be a good stable HD?

 

[miles01110]

An SSD will be stable. A platter-based hard drive will be cheaper.

All platter-based hard drives should be expected to fail. Thus, it makes little sense to give a recommendation of one brand or the other. Personally I have had drives from almost every major manufacturer fail on me at some point.

Just buy a drive with a 5-year warranty and you'll be fine.

 

[Hellhammer]

What capacity do you need/want? The bigger you go, the less you have options. WD is good but as miles said above, all HDs will eventually die