Macbook HD
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Jaline that's the one I have (your link)
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/S…
..but drives come in bigger capacities today, even 320's can be reasonably priced.I'd get either a Seagate or Hitachi, the bigger the better. They both have good 7200rpm models (5400 too). 8MB cache is standard, 16 would be faster.
What people say of 5400 vs. 7200rpm speed difference:
http://bjdraw.com/2007/04/13/upg…
http://www.barefeats.com/5472.ht…This is a nice replacement tutorial here:
http://www.macinstruct.com/node/…
I use free Carbon Copy Cloner instead of paid Super Duper!:
http://www.bombich.com/software/… - be careful using this, double check which drive you are copying from and to :)
It might take 2-3 hours to clone your 120GB drive.Don't forget you need an enclosure for the old drive, you won't be able to clone your original drive contents otherwise.
This looks like a nice package, unless you find the transparent case tacky:
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/S…Nice instructional video:
http://www.5min.com/Video/Apple-…
Apple's instructional pdf:
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en…@Samush:
Don't trust what those geniuses say, macbook's (13.3") drives are user-replaceable (also look at the pdf above)
http://www.tuaw.com/2008/01/13/t…
http://lowendmac.com/archive/06/…- thanks :)Jaline
- I can just transfer everything to an external HD I already have instead of using the internal HD I will be taking out, right?Jaline
- On a mac, you can even boot from the external, just press Option while booting and choose which disk to start with.rafalski
- yes, you can clone the whole disk contents with Carbon Copy Cloner, just don't use the computer while cloningrafalski