would this HDD fit?

[hitman45400]

i was looking to upgrade from my 200 gb, i need alot more room and was looking at this..

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=4319028&CatId=1277

i would take it to a shop to get it changed out, files moved etc and i don't trust myself to not lose anything..
so, would it fit? is it a good hard drive? could i do better for the same price?

 

[OrangeSVTguy]

Any 9.5mm hard drives will fit. I don't know how to tell by the model # if that's a 12mm or a 9.5mm drive(height wise) as the 12mm are too tall to fit inside the Macbooks. Unless you got the 17" Macbook Pro.

This drive will work though.
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Western Digital/WD5000BEVT/

 

[Thunder82]

I believe the only 500GB drive that is not 9.5mm is the Hitachi 500GB. The hitachi drive will work in 17" MBPs, but not the 15.4s.

I will 2nd the 500GB western digital drive, I recently purchased the WD after looking into benchmarks etc. Honestly, the Seagate, Samsung, and WD 500GB drives all perform very similarly.

 

[hitman45400]

Any 9.5mm hard drives will fit. I don't know how to tell by the model # if that's a 12mm or a 9.5mm drive(height wise) as the 12mm are too tall to fit inside the Macbooks. Unless you got the 17" Macbook Pro.

This drive will work though.
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Western Digital/WD5000BEVT/

have you installed this one or know someone who has? i'm weary about spending that much and it not work..

and i have the 15" so whatever size fits that..

 

[OrangeSVTguy]

have you installed this one or know someone who has? i'm weary about spending that much and it not work..

and i have the 15" so whatever size fits that..

I haven't as I don't have a MB or MBP but any SATA 9.5mm drive will work.

Try a search for that particular WD drive ~~>https://forums.macrumors.com/search/?searchid=13669705. There's quite a bit of threads mentioning that drive so go through them all and see what you think.