Apple MacBook Hard Drive Upgrade

Discussion in 'Software' started by Orca, 6 May 2007.

  1. Orca

    Orca What's a Dremel?

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    After upgrading to 2GB of RAM I'm thinking of upgrading my stock 60GB to something larger, maybe 100GB or 120GB. I was searching through this forum and found a few threads mentioning a certain Seagate drive at 7200rpm? But I was worried about heat and noise issues.

    I saw this: Click

    Too good to be true? I don't mind 5400rpm to be honest... doing fine with the stock one at the moment and just looking for more storage but don't want a loud one either.

    edit: whoops sorry, changed the link to a sata one.
     
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  2. seebul

    seebul Minimodder

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    I dont think that hard drive is SATA which is what you need for macbooks...

    Changing them is pretty easy though done a couple and they just pull straight out. Also i wouldnt recomend going for 7200RPM your battery would take a nasty hit.
     
  3. Phrozenpenguin

    Phrozenpenguin What's a Dremel?

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    That should work fine. Its really easy hardware wise to swopout.

    If you have an external drive, you can make a clone using superduper to the external, then swop internals, boot off the external, clone from external - new drive, then you are sorted.
     
  4. MrWillyWonka

    MrWillyWonka Chocolate computers galore!

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    With the google checkout its only £36.78 with super saver postage and google checkout. Been meaning to boost the drive space on my macbook since I bought it two months ago. Might actually do this and dual boot with vista.
     
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