Biggest Hard Drive for Macbook Pro?

[The Flashing Fi]

No they're not. 2.5" refers to the platter diameter. There's no specification that requires them to be a fixed length, width, and height.

Most are the same width and length, but not all are the same height, which is why previous large drives (with three platters) did not fit in the MacBook Pro.

The WD one is two platters and should be short enough to fit in the MBP.

There are people who haven't had problems installing them in a MacBook Pro.

Also, the dimensions of it are the same as there 120 GB model.

My MBP has a Fujitsu HDD, and the dimensions are the same for the 320 GB WD HDD.

 

[xer0]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822145160

Plan on buying a 200 gig 7200 RPM hd for my regular MB. Read through all the reviews and there are plenty of people on there who have installed it on a MB and MBP with out any problems. Since I have a MB the installation should be much much simpler.

 

[WorldIRC]

Just bought and installed the WD 320gb 5400rpm! Drive works great!

 

[Shadow]

Just bought and installed the WD 320gb 5400rpm! Drive works great!

I hear that the SMS in the drive clashes with the SMS in the notebook and therefore causes kernel panics when both go off at the same time. Is this true?

Also, do you have a MacBook or a MacBook Pro?

 

[RaceTripper]

I hear that the SMS in the drive clashes with the SMS in the notebook and therefore causes kernel panics when both go off at the same time. Is this true?

Also, do you have a MacBook or a MacBook Pro?

I've had the WD320 drive installed in my MBP for over a week now. With constant use I have not had any kernel panics nor crashed otherwise. It runs cool and quiet.

 

[Consultant]

I've had the WD320 drive installed in my MBP for over a week now. With constant use I have not had any kernel panics nor crashed otherwise. It runs cool and quiet.

Any benchmarks? If you have
SpeedTools QuickBench 4.01 (SpeedTools Utilities)
can you do the same tests as on bare feats? Thanks
Barefeats benchmarks: http://www.barefeats.com/hard96.html

 

[Shadow]

I've had the WD320 drive installed in my MBP for over a week now. With constant use I have not had any kernel panics nor crashed otherwise. It runs cool and quiet.

The SMS only comes into play when it is dropped. Try dropping it onto a pillow or something

 

[WorldIRC]

The SMS only comes into play when it is dropped. Try dropping it onto a pillow or something

Let's not and say we didn't!

 

[RaceTripper]

Any benchmarks? If you have
SpeedTools QuickBench 4.01 (SpeedTools Utilities)
can you do the same tests as on bare feats? Thanks
Barefeats benchmarks: http://www.barefeats.com/hard96.html

I don't have SpeedTools. I use Adobe Lightroom to manage 10Mpx RAW camera files. I have not noticed any significant performance hit over the 7K200 I had before. That's good enough for me.

The SMS only comes into play when it is dropped. Try dropping it onto a pillow or something

I've never dropped my laptop, and pillows aren't part of computing experience.