welcome 2 the club! hehehe


yes you can swap them. but before u do that, hit ur friend on the head for saying 5400rpm is "realllly bad". obviously a speed of 5400 rpm is lower than 7200 rpm, but what matters is the read/write speed of the HDD. did you know a 500gb WD Scorpio blue (5400rpm) is faster than the 320gb Scorpio Black (7200rpm)? the capacity of the hard disk, or rather, the free space it has, is an important factor to the read/write speed. at best, the difference between an equally-sized 5400 and 7200rpm drive is not much, but the 7200rpm will give u vibration and noise issues.

if u want substantial improvement in read/write speed, go for SSD. i think rm700+ will get you 64gb.

should be typical pc user saying
how bad is it?

end of the day, you're not doing anything major, 7200 consume more power, decrease battery life, generate more heat
unless you're doing movie production

now its either your friend is trying to act smart or trying to con you because you are gullible. a 7200 RPM drive will cause alot of vibration, and its plastic for christ's sake you want the rigidity to go off in x number of months?

hey. just wanna report that machines @sunway pyramid now has the new macbook. but the imac is not anywhere to b seen. just got back from a visit there. the prices of the accessories has not been updated yet. when asked, they gave the most predictable answer: 'not sure'

Yes, you definitely can swap the HDD on your own. Use the videos provided by our friends here and make sure you have 2 screw drivers ready. 1 for the Philips (+) and 1 Torx T6 for the 4 HDD mounting screws. Without the T6 it'll be almost impossible to remove them and transfer to the new HDD. If you don't have the T6 driver, you can get it from Viewnet for RM25 (31-piece all types).

As for HDD, if you want the largest capacity then you're limited to 5400RPM drives. Most 7200RPM are either stuck at 320GB or pretty expensive that you have to settle for 250GB. In my opinion, save yourself some headache and get the WD Scorpio Blue 500GB 5400RPM 8MB HDD. This is the best available in the market and the price is really low. I have this stucked in my MBP and its really really fast. Its quiet and its cool.

One of the reasons not to get the 7200RPM is that its heaty and causes a lot of vibration. All this for a very very small increase in performance. Really... reviews have proven it. You should do some reading. Another reason is that most 7200RPM drives are only capped at 320GB. Compared to a 500GB HDD, platter for platter... the 500GB would have a higher density. A higher density platter (as with most higher capacity drives) will yield faster sequential reads and writes since each 'bits' are closer to each other. Of course a 7200RPM drive would have better random reads and write since the platter itself spins faster. But this is very debatable in the mobile platform.

In the desktop scene, no doubt.. the 7200RPM drives trumps 5400RPM anytime. But in the mobile scene, 5400RPM has been the de facto standard along with the 8MB cache. And since I do not trust Seagate HDDs anymore, so WD is really the only reliable brand I can recommend. Fujitsus too if you like OEMs.

Another hard disk to consider is the Hitachi 5K500.B I have it and its brilliant. Absolutely quiet, no vibrations, no excessive heat and its fast. Get the 500GB version.

What is the brand of the stock hdd installed in MBP? WD?

mine had a hitachi.

Mine had Hitachi installed, now running on Scorpio Black 320gb

i think most, if not all stock HDD in macbooks are the hitachi 5k series.

so it seems that we've pretty much established that the scorpio blue 500gb and the hitachi 5k500 is the best notebook hdd upgrade?

i've tried the new imac a couple of days ago, but that was in san francisco. it was awesome

guys,

Issit normal to transfer around 3GB files for 30mins.

Situation like copy DVD or SD card content to HDD.

SD card could be
DVD, dunno
depends on your medium
slow dvd, slow sd card

@Dino,

I transfered a 1gb file from a thumbdrive in less than a minute. I reckon, copying and pasting on different formats has their own speed. And copying from a DVD/SD Card would take a longer time, due to their rate of transfering of the data. But any other person could clarify this in detail.

Hmm, i did copied stuff at my PC. 3GB is not going to take this long to transfer.

Yeah.. I looked at my friend transfer 12GB of data into my 16GB thumbdrive around 20mins max...

Wonder issit my latest update in Mac os X causing this issues..haha. Is kinda bad situation especially in a rush to copy stuff.


Thx guys!

Wireless Magic Mouse update for Leopard and Snow Leopard is available!

@ www.apple.com/downloads

Need to know if the new Macbook Unibody (White) with 2GB DDR3 is sufficient enough in handling 720p video editing using iMovie ?

should be able to run, just take longer time

my MAIL is going cuckoo nowadays. it kept on pop up this thing.
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i kept on need to key in my password even i already tick the keychain thing.
what happened huh?

Yes, these 2 HDD options are recommended. As long as it is cool, quiet and don't generate much vibrations I'm good with it. I heard Samsung satisfy those requirements too but ain't that fast compared to the Scorpios.

Shouldn't sufficient as long as you don't run many applications in the background. Just save some bucks from your lunches and get a 2GB module (RM140) and upgrade it as you go along. No need to rush into an upgrade now.

I'm using Entourage and don't see this problem. Don't think it is the Live servers issues.