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Which Mac Laptops take a 1TB HDD?
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Actually the 1TB 2.5" drives are available in 9.5mm height. 1.5TB 2.5" are available in 12.5 mm high and 2TB 15mm high.
The HD bay of the MBP will accept up to 12.5 mm while i think an optibay caddy will take only 9.5mm.
I used to have a Samsung 1TB 9.5mm as my boot drive in a 2011 MBP and it was painfully slow.
1TB http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Western%20Digital/WD10JPVT/
1.5TB http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Toshiba/MQ01ABD150/
2TB
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/892985-REG/Intel_wd20npvt_Green_2TB_2_5_SATA3.html
The HD bay of the MBP will accept up to 12.5 mm while i think an optibay caddy will take only 9.5mm.
I used to have a Samsung 1TB 9.5mm as my boot drive in a 2011 MBP and it was painfully slow.
1TB http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Western%20Digital/WD10JPVT/
1.5TB http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Toshiba/MQ01ABD150/
2TB
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/892985-REG/Intel_wd20npvt_Green_2TB_2_5_SATA3.html
And the 9.5mm 1-TB one that I looked at also had a high failure rate too. (That's what you get for trying to cram all of that storage in such a small place...)
Most Seagate 1-TB drives are 15mm high.
On my white, 12" MacBook, I am certain that 9.5mm is the maximum height.
But this post is about the newer Mac Laptops...
Debbie
I don't know any Seagate 1 TB HDD which has 15mm and is meant for Notebooks, the STBD1000100h has 5400 rpm and 9.5mm.
There is a Seagate Constellation HDD with 15mm, but this drive is not for notebooks. Weight, shock resistance, power consumption are way too much for a notebook.
http://www.seagate.com/internal-hard-drives/enterprise-hard-drives/hdd/constellation/
There is a Seagate Constellation HDD with 15mm, but this drive is not for notebooks. Weight, shock resistance, power consumption are way too much for a notebook.
http://www.seagate.com/internal-hard-drives/enterprise-hard-drives/hdd/constellation/
Based on user reviews, that one fails way too much.
How do you enable the hardware encryption on that drive?
Debbie
I have a WD Scorpio Blue WD10JPVT 1 TB 5400 RPM drive in my 2010 Macbook white. The drive is 9.5 mm high and fits in both optical drive caddy and the main drive bay. It's fast, much quieter than a smaller WD Scorpio Black I used previously and doesn't consume much power.
I'm not aware of any excessive failure rate for 1TB 9.5mm drives. The 2 x 1TB Samsung I bought almost 2 years ago haven't failed yet and the 1TB WD I bought 3 months ago is fine.
The current unibody MBP will accept a 12.5mm in the main drive bay and a 9.5mm in an optibay caddy.
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1347247/