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MBP compatible drives?

  • 02-08-2007 12:48pm
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 348 ✭✭


    Hey,

    I'm thinking of upgrading my MBP HD. Its a 2.33ghz 15" MBP with 160gig HD. I currently have a WD Mybook Pro with complete (Bootable) HD backup on there. So if i were to get a new HD couldn't i just swap it in and boot from my External HD and "restore" it to the new HD?

    Second part of my question is what HD's would be compatible. I know MBP's can be had with 250gig but they are 4500rpm. I would ideally not like to go any slower than 5400rpm thats currently in there.

    (440hz....now's your chance to respond!!!!:) )


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,584 ✭✭✭✭Creamy Goodness


    i put one of these in my macbook - http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.aspx?sku=336007

    must of got a dud, see my thread in the mac forum.

    i then put on of these in - http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-145-WD&groupid=701&catid=14&subcat=896
    and worked a charm.

    i assume these will work in a macbook pro. and both these drives are 5400rpm.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 348 ✭✭setanta5


    Cheers Cremo,

    in your thread you said you were going to keep your old one for your PS3. Is this the same size drive for a PS3? I have one and wouldn't mind doing just that.

    Or my bro has an old Powerbook G4 with 80gig drive. COuld give it to him i suppose.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,424 ✭✭✭440Hz


    setanta5 wrote:
    (440hz....now's your chance to respond!!!!:) )


    uhhmmmmm aahhhhhh uhhmmmmm

    Did I mention I'm a software engineer??
    Did I mention I'm only a girl hehe!!

    Hard what now? I'm lost hehe

    Sorry... uhm in all seriousness though, looks like someone else got there first again! ;) I'll do better next time! hehe


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,584 ✭✭✭✭Creamy Goodness


    the ps3 uses 2.5" sata drives which are indeed the ones that fit into the macbook (pro).

    what i'm going to do - once i RMA my samsung drive - is use the hitachi that was in the apple in the ps3 (when i get one), use the samsung 250gig as a external drive using an enclosure and the western digital is staying in my macbook.

    and 440hz you're a girl :eek:, never would of guessed ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,424 ✭✭✭440Hz


    Cremo wrote:
    and 440hz you're a girl :eek:, never would of guessed ;)

    lol!!

    Course Im not a girl. This is the internet. There are no girls on the internet. Im only pretending. :D


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 348 ✭✭setanta5


    A girl who can use a computer and has a sense of sarcasm/humour. I'm really not comfortable with this.

    By the way am i right about being able to restore my data to the new Drive? I used Super Duper to backup and made a bootable version of my current system folders and Data. Should it be possible to "restore" that backup to a new drive?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,424 ✭✭✭440Hz


    setanta5 wrote:
    A girl who can use a computer and has a sense of sarcasm/humour. I'm really not comfortable with this.

    <evil laugh>HA</evil laugh>


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,272 ✭✭✭✭Paulw


    Now, can anyone actually confirm that 440Hz is really a girl? I mean, has anyone performed the Crocodile Dundee test?? :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,250 ✭✭✭babypink


    Paulw wrote:
    Now, can anyone actually confirm that 440Hz is really a girl? I mean, has anyone performed the Crocodile Dundee test?? :D
    i lolled so hard at this


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,424 ✭✭✭440Hz


    d-_-b

    that is my *blocking my ears* face (with headphones of course).

    /runs off back to my corner to sob now!

    see.. only a girl would do that right??


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,250 ✭✭✭babypink


    440Hz wrote:
    d-_-b

    that is my *blocking my ears* face (with headphones of course).

    /runs off back to my corner to sob now!

    see.. only a girl would do that right??
    21.gif....I jest of course!!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,272 ✭✭✭✭Paulw


    440Hz wrote:
    see.. only a girl would do that right??

    Would a boy-girl do it too??? Or someone who's confused. LOL

    Ok, I better shutup now. :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,424 ✭✭✭440Hz


    If I threaten to beat ye all with a big stick will I sound more like a guy?

    Which I am, of course. ahem.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,272 ✭✭✭✭Paulw


    Sticks and stones may break my bones, but whips and chains excite me. :p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,424 ✭✭✭440Hz


    lmao!! Oh dear! This place is gone to the dogs altogether.

    it's great :D

    We should be good though, before a mod comes and tells us to get back on topic.

    Oh hang on... :D nevermind :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,899 ✭✭✭✭K.O.Kiki


    Lesson: never reveal you are a girl on the internet, unless you are prepared for LULZ.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,424 ✭✭✭440Hz


    Ah im all for lulz! Its nice to have a bit of craic, no need to be tech heads all the time afterall! As long as we all play nicely there is no bother ;)


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