Holy crap! A 500 gig laptop drive

[Cave Man]

It'd be nice to have these in my MBP and Mini:

http://www.macworld.com/article/131372/2008/01/hitachi.html

 

[Feverish Flux]

Wake me when they're 7200 RPM.

 

[heatmiser]

Very cool--but it won't fit in a Macbook/Pro if the 9.5mm req is true.

 

[xUKHCx]

12.5 mm tall, would these fit in the MB/MBP I thought they could only take 9.5 mm (not really sure hence asking).

 

[Cave Man]

Very cool--but it won't fit in a Macbook/Pro if the 9.5mm req is true.

Nothing a belt sander can't take care of.

 

[CrackedButter]

Wake me when they're 7200 RPM.

Hitachi do a 200GB 7200rpm drive.

 

[MovieCutter]

Hitachi do a 200GB 7200rpm drive.

I think he wants a 7200RPM 500GB notebook drive, and damnit I do too.

 

[kuebby]

I think he wants a 7200RPM 500GB notebook drive, and damnit I do too.

I'd be fine with 5400rpm. Just having 500GB would be great since I only have 80 right now and it's a pain to upgrade the MBP.

 

[Jiddick ExRex]

I'd be fine with 5400rpm. Just having 500GB would be great since I only have 80 right now and it's a pain to upgrade the MBP.

No, it's a pain putting that old drive back in when your MBP needs to be sent in for repair

 

[RaceTripper]

I'd be fine with 5400rpm. Just having 500GB would be great since I only have 80 right now and it's a pain to upgrade the MBP.

Upgrading the drive in a MBP is easy. Takes all of 15 minutes to do the physical swap. If you get a cheap external enclosure, Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper make easy work of moving the contents of your drive to the new one. I've done this twice now (first with 7K200, and more recently with Scorpio 320).