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Replacing hard drive in my Mac

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While on leave and happily ignoring emails (its very strange, but will blog why later in the week), I'm about to start upgrading the hard drive in my macbook to a 200GB 7200 SATA drive.  If it goes well, expect a "Success" post in a few hours or possibly tomorrow.  I will install everything from fresh, so will take my time.
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Posted by Paul Mooney On 09/05/2008 | Digg This |

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1 - Ah, you should have gone for the 5400rpm 320Gb drive... I did that surgery a month or so ago in my MacBook Pro and it was perfect. Now I have a random 100Gb drive I don't know what to do with.

Posted by Turtle At 19:01:20 On 09/05/2008 | - Website - |


2 - @1 The HD is the bottleneck of the performance of any laptop... 7200rpm is almost a must-have.

Posted by Pedro Quaresma At 23:59:02 On 09/05/2008 | - Website - |


3 - well, I agree with the Turtle. I also upgraded from a 160Gb 7200 to a 320Gb 5400, and don't regret it one bit. For those small 2.5" disks, speed is not that important. The head doesn't have to move so far, to notice the speed difference. A 100 Gb extra is something that's more important, especially if you have a Boot Camp partition on your MacBook too !

Posted by Theo Heselmans At 16:57:52 On 10/05/2008 | - Website - |


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