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Hardware Upgrade HDD for MacBook
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rajulkabir
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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. 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).
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rajulkabir
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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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