Went on google and found a couple article but dunno if it's the cause or not.

hi guys, i've a question.
If 3GB of RAM with 1x1GB + 1x2GB.
Will increase the speed? or both of it muz be same size oni can perform well?

Although Apple officially only supports 4 GB of RAM, third-party tests from site sponsor Other World Computing and the always excellent BareFeats  have confirmed that these model are capable of supporting 6 GB  of RAM with one 2 GB module and one 4 GB module.

Apple likewise formally recommends that "for best performance, fill both memory slots, installing an equal memory module in each slot."

However, after real-world testing with one 2 GB module and one 4 GB module, BareFeats found:

    The difference ranged from -.5% to +1.7% or an average difference of +.28% or less than 1/3 of one percent. I call that negligible. Or, in other words, you should have no worries about a speed penalty imposed by non-matching memory modules and loss of interleaving.

The full results of the 6 GB testing -- as well as the results of testing with 8 GB of RAM (which did not work properly) -- should be read for the complete perspective provided by the author.

Latest CZone price list shows a 4gb stick of DDR3 Kingston notebook ram selling at rm650. Anyone seen cheaper?

I'm using Kingston in my PowerMac G5 n it's been great. The Apple shop oso recommended Kingston. Need to find cheaper rammmmmm. DDR3 8gb kit really can die, so expensive. My PC's 8gb of high performance ram so cheap, Apple 1, normal type of ram oso cost a bomb. 

BD = can get it on Amazon
SSD = any recommendations? Some say Intel's best, some say OSZ...

dear sifu,

i have bought a macbook early 2008 with below spec:-

Intel Core Duo 1.83Ghz; 60gb 5400-rpm hard drive; DVD Combo

if i wish to upgrade the hard drive & dvd combo, what is the recommendation model of hard drive & dvd drive. For the hard drive, what's the capacity can support?

thanks

I'm planning to update my Leopard to Snow Leopard. Would there be a significant noticeable improvement or am i just wasting my money? and also I'm using an IMAC what is the maximum amount of RAM it can sustain?

Thanks for the swift reply, it's a Imac Core 2 duo, 2 Ghz

Macbook Pro 13" Mid 2010
Intel Core 2 Duo P8400 2.4Ghz
4GB DDR3 Ram

Original Hard Disk : Seagate Momentous 5400 250GB

Upgraded Hard Disk : Hitachi TravelStar 5400 B version 500GB Hard Disk

Before upgrading, went to Machines, Max Studio, asking about the upgrade. Most inane answer came from MacStudio. Best answer came from machines.

Bought Philips #0 Screwdriver RM6.80

Bought Torx T6 Screwdriver RM14.80 (Comes in one set)

Bought the HDD RM230

Testing it out now. Upgrading not that difficult.

Complaints have ranged from drawing too much power because of frequent throttling, parking and conflict with Mac OS X SMS (Sudden Motion Sensor). One side says everything's fine, the other side says got problem, go get the seagate.

On the Macbook 2010, funning thing is the max negotiated SATA link speed is 1.5Gb, although the controller reported that the max speed it could run was 3Gps (Those having NVIDIA MCP89 ACHI chipsets). The drive was super quiet, a customized seagate drive I presumed.

Went shopping in lowyat, but it seemed that everyone there was selling WD's until I actually found one shop that sells hitachi 5k500 B's. Its a Travelstar 500GB hard drive, with some good review, and some mac forums are recommending the drive over the WD's, and even Seagates. (Comes from the IBM dna i suppose, the Hitachi Storage Technology actually is a marriage between IBM and Hitachi's storage technology).

yes your right. I was doing much research on it past few days. A lot of care has to be done, but not entirely impossible.    Still I do not have the "sucker" so cant remove the front glass.
Agreed.
=) I dont think we have those in Kuching. Or maybe have, I have no idea. Switch can upgrade for me ?
Initially I got the Invalid node structure, and Invalid sibling link error. Found via Disk Utility (boot from DVD). Then I could not select / mount / access the HDD. After much dismay I loaded DiscWarrior which found heaps of errors and tried to repair, and gave me result saying could not save due to hardware error.  I was like, is this for real ? Maybe it was failing and I manage to provoke it. 

So I moved out some data which I still have not back up to my external drives via Preview. Then Rebooted again to OSX DVD. Back to Disk Utility and found that I can click the HDD again (no more grey out) ! So quickly I formatted it, and remounted it. 

Did another reboot, just in case and loaded the 10.6 DVD =) (I was still on 10.5 before the Invalid's came along) By the time I was done installing it was 3.40 am this morning. So far.. So good. Did few more disc utility test. and it says the drive is healthy and functioning properly. 

Anyways I'll be monitoring the HDD for now, hopefully its not an hardware error, else I really need to do surgery on it. Lucky I have my MBP to entertain me when my Imac was out!

If that's the case, WD must really make lousy hard drives that only clicks on macbook pro's.

@dvlzplayground
I did post the hdapm workaround last time but dare not try myself as it change the Apple Power Management and make the HD spins and spins. I'm afraid it will cause more problem than solving it.

@tarvalslain87
Wahhh just 2 month only bought ... already mau kaput ka? Not all clicking sound means HD want to kaput. There are type of clicking that indicate the HD want to kaput. This 'click' is the sound when the HD head is parked. It affect a bit on the HD performance when the 'click' happens. Infact, from my previous googling on this, I found mix reaction from MB/MBP user that use WD Scorpio Blue. Some will have the 'clicks' and some don't. Dunno why that happens but from wht I've read here ... dvlzplayground, me and another forumer (that tried the hdapm) did encounter this 'clicking' issue.

Since there's other alternatives to WD and SG, might try it later and see if it solve this problem. Mmmm ... now going to have another external HD for me to use.

Last time i've always trust IBM travelstar. I think hitachi already taken over the travelstar HD. I still have 2 IBM travelstar thats already reaching 10 years, taken from my very old laptop (RIP) and still can be used up till today.

Aisey, now Seagate has already come out with hybrid drives already. The Momentus XT. 4GB SSD + Hard drive spinning at 7200RPM. Think it'll be good for our macs?

As for the most reliable drives list for macs, I think...

1. Hitachi
2. Seagate / Toshiba
3.
4.
5. WD (Most problematic)

Yes enof for a few month but Windows partition will definitely grow especially the page file size. So its best allocate more for windows it self i never put any appl on my windows partition. like mine i allocate 120Gb for windows it slef and now it only left 71Gb of free space. Cos im doing quite a number of Video encoding and some application will cache it temp data in the windows partition until the project completed.

Hey i plan to upgrade my macbook alu HDD..
I'm looking at the Hitachi 5k500.b?
Any other recommendations? I'm looking for a 500GB HDD..

why 1TB that's even slower than 5400rpm for a startup drive...? You can get a 500GB 7200rpm drive as startup and get a 1TB as external for storage...