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Hardware Upgrade HDD for MacBook

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rajulkabir
post Mar 1 2008, 03:47 AM

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QUOTE(sonnettech-asia @ Feb 29 2008, 11:22 PM)
I have the 250HDD ex-stock. For bigger size HDD, needs to order.
PM me if you are interested.
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What brand is the 250 one?

Do you have experience using them in MacBooks? I'm asking because I'm worried about heat. When I got a larger drive for my iBook, it ran hot and the machine was never really the same after that (would overheat and shut down).
rajulkabir
post Mar 3 2008, 11:17 PM

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I just bought a WD 250GB SATA for my MacBook today.

Installation took less than 5 minutes. Only required two tools:

1) Tiny philips screwdriver. One was included with the casing I bought for my drive, so that was easy.

2) Hex driver. I didn't have one of those but a small flat/blade screwdriver did the job just fine.

After that I formatted the drive with Disk Utility, installed GUID partition with Disk Utility, then used free download program Carbon Copy Cloner to copy the existing 60GB drive across. That took about 2 hours.

So far working well. And it's nice to see "179.84 GB available" on my screen!

 

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