No it won't. That's a desktop drive (3.5"). You need the Spinpoint M6 500 gb drive for a notebook.
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Which harddrive brand the best?
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LOL!! Spoken like someone who is a true expert!
Seriously, drives are like trends. They fall in and out of favor depending on word of mouth. For every person that says they have had great success with X company, you can find someone who will say they have had the opposite. Over the years, I've bought drives from ALL the major companies and so far the only one that has not failed is Samsung (knocks on wood).
Yeah I've come down to choice of 500GB WD Scorpio Blue, or the 500GB Samsung SpinPoint M6. I shall make the final decision today.
I've read from someone's blog who used a 500GB WD My Passport Essential USB drive, and he basically taken the 500Gb out from the case, swap it with the 80GB from his white MacBook, and put the old one back into the My Passport case and then sell it or use it. Pretty neat idea. But I don't wanna spend another £20 for the Passport Essential just to get the case. And I also wonder if that drive is identical to the Scorpio Blue?
As for the file transfer, I'm just gonna use TimeMachine to do a backup before the hardware work. Then gonna do a clean install, and then just go into TimeMachine and handpick the files and programs I want (as opposed to doing a complete system restore).
of course, everyone is going to have their own experiences (good or bad), but I have a seagate external that has been running quite well for 6 months, and I just replaced my stock fujitsu drive (which has run perfectly- ran out of space) with a seagate drive. I hope my all-seagate setup lasts for years to come...
cant beat their 5-year warranty
cant beat their 5-year warranty
Between some friend of mine and me we tend to use WD, Seagate and Maxtor (which is now owned by Seagate)
None of us have had a hard drive really fail.
The 120g WD primary drive in my PC is over 4.5 years old now and has not shown a single problem.
My 3 year old 500 gig Maxtor drive is still going strong.
None of us have had a hard drive really fail.
The 120g WD primary drive in my PC is over 4.5 years old now and has not shown a single problem.
My 3 year old 500 gig Maxtor drive is still going strong.
I'd pick the same brand of drives, incidentally. However, that 0/7 Samsung failure rate looks awesome, so I'd be willing to try them out.
Avoid Maxtor ... 4/5 failures for me ... just terrible
... Though the last one is 4 years old and hasn't failed yet. I'm just waiting for it to fail now. Edit: Make that 5/5 ... good thing it was just a backup drive.
I would have to say Hitachi - have installed at least 4, 2 in PS3's (both 250gigs) and one into my BlackBook to replace its 160gig (which was also a Hitachi). Never had a problem with any of them!!
Alright, here goes.
I've got a 400gb Hitachi hard drive in my iMac (had worked well for the last three years--I like it), I have a 500gb LaCie external with a Samsung drive (works good so far--like it as well), and I have two Seagate hard drives (320gb and 160gb) with no problems. I've had two Western Digital hard drives in the past and those both failed...everything else I haven't had a problem with.
That said, I just bought a Fantom drive with a 1tb WD drive so I'm giving Western Digital another chance.
With that said, seriously just buy any name brand. Personally I'd go with either a (1st) Seagate, (2nd) Hitachi, (3rd) or Samsung.
I've got a 400gb Hitachi hard drive in my iMac (had worked well for the last three years--I like it), I have a 500gb LaCie external with a Samsung drive (works good so far--like it as well), and I have two Seagate hard drives (320gb and 160gb) with no problems. I've had two Western Digital hard drives in the past and those both failed...everything else I haven't had a problem with.
That said, I just bought a Fantom drive with a 1tb WD drive so I'm giving Western Digital another chance.
With that said, seriously just buy any name brand. Personally I'd go with either a (1st) Seagate, (2nd) Hitachi, (3rd) or Samsung.
On the contrary. Apple has made swapping hard drives in the new unibody MacBooks easier than ever. Just use the latch on the bottom to pop off the battery cover and you'll see the hard drive sitting right beside the battery. Make sure your MacBook is turned off, screw out the hard drive and put in the new one. Easy as pie. But indeed, do keep track of where all the different screws should go.
No, the drive isn't the same as the Scorpio Blue, it is a drive specifically made for the Passport which has a different code WD3200BMVS instead of the usual WD3200BEVS
B = form factor (2.5")
E = Mobile Scorpio non-FFS
V = 5400 / 8MB cache
S = 22-Pin SATA
This might mean the warranty on the drive is void...
Not that this relates directly to the OP's question....
I co-own and help manage a data center with almost 1000 drives. I can tell you that the best drives, by far, are the Seagate "Nearline Storage", or NS, drives. The folks we buy our servers from have had problems with every other vendor. Pretty much all of their customers insists upon Seagate NS drives.
My experiences cause me to use nothing but Seagate drives and Seagate NS drives for data I really care about.
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I co-own and help manage a data center with almost 1000 drives. I can tell you that the best drives, by far, are the Seagate "Nearline Storage", or NS, drives. The folks we buy our servers from have had problems with every other vendor. Pretty much all of their customers insists upon Seagate NS drives.
My experiences cause me to use nothing but Seagate drives and Seagate NS drives for data I really care about.
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