Macbook HD
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- digival0
I'd get an external - the passports are a sweet small external harddrive that hold up to 350gb right now - I love mine. Plus it helps when I don't want to lug my laptop to a job site and need some stock from my drive.
- horton0
*** don't invest more money into your laptop, buy an additional external... much smarter investment in the long run.
- Jaline0
My Macbook is a year old. I'm thinking maybe I should get another external HD because of the chance that it will last longer than my Macbook, but that means I will have to keep a lot of my stuff on the external. I hate having to remove the plugs/wires when carrying it around. So it's basically: convenience vs. lifespan / long-term life at this point. Either way, if I can find something fast, that would be a plus.
- rafalski0
An external 2.5" drive (like WD Passport) is nothing but a laptop drive in an enclosure. It is just convenient to get an enclosure and the drive separately, because you don't lose your warranty when swapping drives. I don't think they let you open the Passport.
I have a few 2.5" drives, but the setting that works best for me is to put the biggest drive into the laptop and backup things on the remaining ones which sit in their enclosures (ie. one for music, one for photos, work).
It depends. Some people just want to buy a defined product rather than fiddle with it. My friends are happy with their WD passports, you might be too.
Anyway, you don't need to worry about the external drive speed, because USB 2.0 and Firewire 400 13" ports MacBook has are slow bottlenecks anyway. Only get a fast 7200 drive if you mean to put it inside the computer, you're not going to see any difference unless you go for a Firewire 800 enclosure and get a MacBook Pro which has such port.
- rafalski0
We'll see a lot of these on www.wherewedowhatwedo.com next to people's macbooks: http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/…
- vwsung18t0
what kind of files are filling up your hd? if it's small files, why not get a bunch of flash drives? so it's still portable. 4 GB flash drives are so cheap, that's all i do with my macbook.
- Jaline0
vw, a lot of them will be video files. That's what takes up all the space on my computer right now. So it's more worth it to get the larger drives.
- rafalski0
Next thing Jaline will be asking us how to set up a hidden/encrypted folder for her kinky movie collection..
She knows it's the place to ask.
- sublocked0
i replaced the 5400 in my macbook pro 15" with a 7200 rpm. it involves massive disassembly of the unit. not for the faint of heart, or shaky of hand.
- rafalski0
"Mein name ist Karl. Ich bin Expert."
- rafalski0
"You can imagine where it goes from here"
"He fixes the cable?"
- nikdaum0
Just be glad you don't have a 12" Powerbook with an 80gig drive. That suckers dinky.
- Jaline0
I put in a new 250GB HD in my Macbook and the files are being restored now. I bought a Seagate Momentus 5400 because I'm terrified of my laptop being more hot or working harder than it already does. It was at a decent price. I will buy more external drives later :)
It's not that difficult at all to replace the HD. I was only worried about static, but, so far, so good. Also, the Macbook I had used the same HD, but with 120GB instead (Seagate and everything).
Thanks for the help, everyone.
- rafalski0
Well done Jaline, I'm amazed. I mean, most guys around would rather swap the whole computer than a part of it because they have no idea it's something they can do themselves!
I was wondering, how much RAM do you have? Upgrading this bit could make it fly.
- 2 GB. I could upgrade to 3GB, but I'm not sure it would be that different for what I do right now.
http://eshop.macsale…Jaline - By the way, you're a genius with this stuff. Thanks again :)Jaline
- Genious? All secret knowledge there is in a hd swap web video and latest hd pricelist ;)rafalski
- BTW I went from 2 to 4GB recently and the difference is very noticeable.rafalski
- On a regular Macbook?! Hmm...maybe I will try it out.Jaline
- I stand by my genius comment. A genius hockey player :PJaline
- 2 GB. I could upgrade to 3GB, but I'm not sure it would be that different for what I do right now.