I'm thinking of upgrading my hard drive for my Macbook, targetting something above 100GB and 7200rpm if is possible.

Anyone with any experience and recommendations? I really dont know much about hard drive, so need suggestion in terms of brand, size, speed, specs...

I'm not really sure what type of hard drive should I be looking for.

Thanks in advance!

This post has been edited by civic98: May 6 2007, 09:59 PM

2.5 inch SATA hard drive. Currently the largest available in Lowyat is 160GB.

i wonder if 200GB is available at lowyat?
btw, how much for the 160GB?

Whats the fastest speed available now? And brand? And price reference?

Thanks..

Dude, it will always be 7200rpm!!! Only the capacity increase..

What i meant was what is the current fastest hard drive speed, the original hard drive in the Macbooks are 5400rpm only..

Sometime back someone told me 7200rpm hard drives max out at 100GB or something.. No bigger than tat..

Check out Newegg and do your browsing there. They list the most popularly available components in the US although as someone noted above some of the stuff are simply not available in Malaysia.

Around 3 months ago I walked around LYP's 2nd and 3rd floor looking for 2.5" SATA drives, only a handful of people had 80-100GB drives. Compuzone even told me that they might not even be able to get them from the suppliers since there's not much demand for them. That's just sad.

2.5" is 5400rpm

If i'm not mistaken (I read somewhere!) , putting the 7200RPM hdd will make the machine HOTTER. Is it true ???

This post has been edited by abgzam: May 7 2007, 08:18 AM

Ahh, right on: Benchmark for 160GB 2.5" drive on Mac

And for those that want to go crazy: Get this

Pretty good info there Wei, next time I'm down at Low Yat will be hunting for 7200rpm HDD. Anyway I just got confused again today, someone from Macstudio just told me Macbooks can support up to 120GB only. Can anyone verify this.

I think no.. the max for Macbook is 200GB which stated in apple website..

By the way, anyone have any prices for the 2.5 inches 7200rpm Sata HDDs?

This post has been edited by civic98: May 7 2007, 06:23 PM

We have plenty of seller in the Trade section, just look inside Memory & Drive or the Bulk section Memory & Drive.

http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/448205

No, the max volume size supported by OSX is 17179869184 GB and I don't think there's any reason you couldn't use a drive that size - IF you can find one.

But with current technology I think the largest 2.5" SATA drive you can actually buy is in the 250GB range. Wait a few months and there will be something larger, and it will work in the MacBook too.

Be aware that the larger the hard drive (in proportion to the range of drives available on the market), the hotter it will run.

Anyone know if Hitachi Travelstar 7K200 is available in Malaysia yet?

Why should larger drives run hotter?

Faster drives (72k vs 54k) perhaps but larger?

I have an Apple MacBook running a stock HDD, 60GB SATA, I just wanna ask whether can I go to Lowyat Plaza and buy an identical HDD but bigger capacity and reinstall the Mac OS X from the disc that came in the box with the laptop? Reason I wanna another bigger capacity HDD is because I am running out of space.

Given the same generation technology, a higher-capacity drive will have more platters, which means more mass to spin, which means more heat generated.

A theoretical possibility no doubt. But there are no practical examples where larger drives pose a problem even in small enclosures of a laptop.

My 250 Gig WD Scorpio runs quieter/cooler than the 160 Gig Samsung (Apple OEM) that it replaced.

It's a scientific fact.

A 100GB drive and a 200GB drive from the same model cycle by the same manufacturer in the same year will have different heat output.

Obviously there are other factors at play too, I am just pointing out the baseline.

You are talking about two drives that are different generations of technology.

in theory, yes. But i think those manufacturers sure know about the heat issue, or else they goin' bankrupt soon. It's common sense that they will have some kind of solution or whatever to that. In my opinion, i'm sure the 200Gb hdd microchip itself is different than the 100Gb drive, even it's same generation. It's not likely that they so dumb, by just changing the disc inside hdd to make the capacity big.

So, i still think there's likely no heat problem even you have a bigger drive