Hard Drive Upgrade for my MacBook
I have 1.83 MacBook with an 80gig HD. This would be fine because I don't keep more too much on my laptop, except for apps, and the specific files I am working with that day. I want to put bootcamp/winxp on, but don't want to loose that much space.
Where can I buy a 100 or 120gig drive for it? I can put it in, no problem there, I just need to know where to go to get it.
Thanks, Justin.
Where can I buy a 100 or 120gig drive for it? I can put it in, no problem there, I just need to know where to go to get it.
Thanks, Justin.
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They have 36.7GB 10,000RPM laptop drives, 160GB Perpendicular recording laptop drives, and everything in between.
Originally posted by jpennington
Doesn't the macbook have 2.5in SATA drives?
Yeh.
http://www.macmall.com/macmall/shop/...pno~667556.asp
I don't need the space for macosx, but since bootcamp was released I do.
The drive in the picture is ATA, but the description and the actual drive I received was SATA. My MBP is having the logic board replaced and is at the pending return shipment status online, so when I get it back I will take pictures of the transplant.
I get my MacBook back from apple this morning, the whine is completely gone and it runs a lot cooler. It couldn't be better.
Within an hour of getting it back it was disassembled on my desk
I used drive-genius, but I guess you could just use disk utility. I didn't have a 2.5" sata enclousure so I had to copy it to something, switch drives, and copy it back. I copied to a diskimage on my powermac (using Drive Genius' Duplicate Feature). I'm sure most everyone knows this, but you cannot just copy the files you need to duplicate everything Drive genius does it bit by bit I believe, there is a free one called Clone something that I used to use when upgrading drives.
I took it apart following the great video instruction guide at http://media.macsales.com/highres.html . That is the highresolution one, there is also a medium and low if needed. The only problem with his instructions was that even though he had the same drive in the picture I was going to be installing (I guess there isn't many yet) he didn't actually install. The breathing hole (little hole, says do not cover) is right underneath where a flat cable is supposed to go. I had to move the cable a few mm's to the side and bend it a little differently, but it works fine. The video doesn't explain the clips very well, the four clips are on the front of the computer, below the trackpad above the ir sensor, all four need to snap in. I got it back together fine
I boughted up from the OSX CD, loaded Disk Utility, and formatted the drive. It is now the image on my pmac back to the macbook.
I mainly need the extra space for bootcamp, but the bump up to 7200RPM will be nice too.
It is a really simple process. I have taken several computer apart before, but I wouldn't consider myself a pro at all. You need a p0 and t6 screw driver. My T6 was missed and I get to go pick up another one, so make sure you have them before you get started. You can get a kit for $15 from radioshack.
If anyone decides to do this and has any questions or needs help please feel free to email me at penningtonj@mac.com, I will be glad to help
Originally posted by theapplegenius
Newegg.com
They have 36.7GB 10,000RPM laptop drives
It is a 10k drive, 2.5" wide form factor, but it's not a laptop drive but meant for blade servers.
The Savvio drives are 15mm thick, I think the MBP accepts 9mm thick drives. Even worse, the Savvio draws 4.5W to 9W, a far cry from about 2W max for a typical laptop drive, even the 7.2k drives don't draw more than 2.5W max. It appears that the interface issue was already covered, though it would be cool if it were SATA, then at least some luggable owner could play with it, but not a MBP user.