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cforand1293

macrumors regular
Original poster
Jul 25, 2006
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So I have a macbook, with a 60 gig hardrive. To small.. I have a 300 gig external, but i want to upgrade my internal. So i need help with what hardrive to go with. any thoughts would be great!

Thanks
cforand
 

ToddW

macrumors 6502a
Feb 26, 2004
655
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As the above post states, all you have to do is get a larger size 2.5" SATA harddrive. Installation is a breeze and you should be able to do this easily by removing the battery. There is documentation on apple's website on how to do this. It should be under support and user installable parts. Hard drives are going pretty cheap. If you don't have a lot on the harddrive you can do a fresh install. If you don't want to lose a bunch of information you can use a free utility like carbon copy to clone to the hardrive to the new one, but you will need an external hard drive case that fits 2.5" drives.
 

munckee

macrumors 65816
Oct 27, 2005
1,219
1
I forgot how easy they made this with the macbooks. Anyone had warranty issues after swapping?
 

DaLurker

macrumors 6502
Mar 30, 2006
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I forgot how easy they made this with the macbooks. Anyone had warranty issues after swapping?

Nope, I've swapped it and when I had to get it repaired (then replaced), there was no problem. They just told me to put back to the original hard drive.
 

butaro

macrumors regular
Nov 9, 2006
124
0
Canada
9.5mm height don't forget that, there are some drives that are 12.5mm which will not fit (even though EVERYTHING listed on them looks the same as a 9.5mm)
 

QCassidy352

macrumors G5
Mar 20, 2003
12,066
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Bay Area
Just FYI, you're going to need a Torx T8 screwdriver to get the housing off the current HD and on to your new one.
 

gollum

macrumors regular
Jan 29, 2007
176
60
NKY
Just put a Western Digital Scorpio 160 gb from NewEgg ($125) in my MacBook yesterday along with 2 gb's of RAM ($145), plus a SATA external drive for my original 80 gb. ($30).
Other than my computer being a lot faster with 80 gb's of free space and zero pageouts, I don't notice a single difference, couldn't be happier !!! :D
 
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