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Which of the Three 500Gb Hard Drives from newegg.com?
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I went with the seagate, and mostly because I didn't feel like waiting for the 500GB with 7400RPM and the reviews seem to be more favorable (just slightly). Below is how is all went down after I got the drive
Had some initial problems after installing in the mbp because the Drive wasn't formated (well duh I knew that, but I thought I could do this from the Leopard Boot-up CD).
So I had to take it out, put it in an enclosure , which luckily I had bought (to put the old drive in) and formated from Disk Utility. Then re-inserted back to the mbp and all was well.
Had some initial problems after installing in the mbp because the Drive wasn't formated (well duh I knew that, but I thought I could do this from the Leopard Boot-up CD).
So I had to take it out, put it in an enclosure , which luckily I had bought (to put the old drive in) and formated from Disk Utility. Then re-inserted back to the mbp and all was well.
Yup, and I'd still be waiting, because I haven't seen one retailer offer it yet, though I guess for me tripling my storage capacity was more important then the speed.
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You can. I've done it many times. You just launch Disk Utility from the menu bar once the initial boot screen has appeared. Not that there's anything wrong with the enclosure method, but it was overkill.
I went with the Seagate and it failed within a week.
--- I have the WD now and it's fine (about 2 months running now).Any brand can have a lemon or two, but I think any of them are as good as any other overall. I'm personally curious about the Samsung and may order one for my wife's machine. Or I may go the 500GB 7200rpm route and let the wifey have this WD 500GB 5400rpm drive.
anyone know what drives come in the current mbp's? specifically the 7200 rpm drive option. i've been contemplating doing an upgrade for a while and can't settle on a drive and wanted to compare with what apple is currently using. i did some searching and couldn't find a brand name or model number.
I currently have a Western Digital Passport 320GB External USB 2.0 Hard Drive (Model number: WDXMS3200TN | SKU: 8621397) I purchased back in March, 2008 and what I'm thinking of doing is replacing it with a Western Digital 500Gb portable drive powered by Firewire800 (I found out about this over on the Portable Hard Drive For FCP? thread.)
I was thinking I could maybe take the 320gb passport and put the hard drive in my 15" 2.2ghz MacBook Pro? I have only 120gb in there now.
... looking at this, seems the WD could fit.
... and looking at this too.
Does that sound like a good idea? Could I put the current 120gb hard drive that's in my MBP in my current WD Western Digital 320gb Passport's enclosure after I take it out? I was thinking of putting it in my PS3 actually, but I think I should keep the orig hard drive handy in case I have to send back to Apple right? Or maybe when I want to put back in my MBP when I want to sell it (probably in the summer of 2010 - before the Appleare runs out).
Nice, that's exactly what I have. I myself purchased Transcend RAM for my 15" 2.2ghz MBP back in November 2007. Paid $80 total for the two DDR2 2GB PC5300 SO-D TRA (+$10 shipping). I actually did have a problem w/ those RAM modules back in Spring '08, but Transcend swapped it out for me and the new Modules have been working fine ever since.
I was thinking I could maybe take the 320gb passport and put the hard drive in my 15" 2.2ghz MacBook Pro? I have only 120gb in there now.
... looking at this, seems the WD could fit.
... and looking at this too.
Does that sound like a good idea? Could I put the current 120gb hard drive that's in my MBP in my current WD Western Digital 320gb Passport's enclosure after I take it out? I was thinking of putting it in my PS3 actually, but I think I should keep the orig hard drive handy in case I have to send back to Apple right? Or maybe when I want to put back in my MBP when I want to sell it (probably in the summer of 2010 - before the Appleare runs out).
Nice, that's exactly what I have. I myself purchased Transcend RAM for my 15" 2.2ghz MBP back in November 2007. Paid $80 total for the two DDR2 2GB PC5300 SO-D TRA (+$10 shipping). I actually did have a problem w/ those RAM modules back in Spring '08, but Transcend swapped it out for me and the new Modules have been working fine ever since.