My Video Guide - 13" MBP Hard Drive Upgrade and RAM Upgrade

Is this the HDD that you used?

Amazon.com: Seagate Momentus 5400.6 ST9500325AS - Hard drive - 500 GB - internal - 2.5" - SATA-300 - 5400 rpm - buffer: 8 MB: TigerDirect

I used this WD in the past and it worked well - will it fit?

Amazon.com: Western Digital Scorpio Blue 500 GB Bulk/OEM Hard Drive 2.5 Inch, 8 MB Cache, 5400 RPM SATA II WD5000BEVT: Electronics

Thanks a million. My laptop was just stolen - so I have to buy a new one...

They will both work. I am wary about using the WD as there have been reports that it bleeps now and then. A member on here told me about it.

djcarbon said:

Is this the HDD that you used?

Amazon.com: Seagate Momentus 5400.6 ST9500325AS - Hard drive - 500 GB - internal - 2.5" - SATA-300 - 5400 rpm - buffer: 8 MB: TigerDirect

I used this WD in the past and it worked well - will it fit?

Amazon.com: Western Digital Scorpio Blue 500 GB Bulk/OEM Hard Drive 2.5 Inch, 8 MB Cache, 5400 RPM SATA II WD5000BEVT: Electronics

Thanks a million. My laptop was just stolen - so I have to buy a new one...

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You can read reviews of those two HDD here. Not sure if they are cheaper or not, but they have free shipping so I would look into that.

Well I did it, it works and Chris gets to keep his noggin. All is well lol.

Did find it a little hard having chunkier fingers getting the bottom Ram out.

Nice one - congrats!

Phew! I did it! Thanks for the video!! Replaced the stock 160GB HDD with a WD Scorpio Black 320GB, and put in 4GB of RAM to replace the stock 2GB!! I nearly had a heart attack thinking I was going to do something wrong but it seems good so far.

I can hear my new HDD more than my other one. The other one was silent (stock 160 GB with my 13" MBP). This one I can hear humming very slightly. Is that ok? It also feels warm in the top left hand corner of the keyboard.

All drives are different - this just may be slightly louder and may generate more heat than your other one. You should be fine though.

Well done!

One problem - not sure if you will know the answer to this? After cloning my old uniMB HDD and putting it on the new one, then putting that into my new MBP, the sound is not working. It says it is unavailable. So I rebooted from the original drive (which is in an enclosure and I have not erased yet, thankfully) and the sound works fine with that. Do you know if I need to download a driver for the new MBP that was not part of my old uniMB which I cloned? Since there is no hardware issue (since the sound works with the original drive) it must be a driver issue? How can I fix this?

Now that is a strange problem.

I would do 2 things:

Wipe the drive and clone again.

And/or do an archive-install to reinstall your OSX SW without loosing your apps or user data.

Uboat

nice video i stopped collecting watches 3 yrs ago , loved the Uboat watches , bought myself 3 of them like 3 yrs ago , 53" tobacco , black dial and beige in 47 mm. i had to order them from italy those days , where can you get them now on east coast?

thank you very much. Excellent video. What type RAM and Hard drive did you purchase and any links??

thanks

sak said:

nice video i stopped collecting watches 3 yrs ago , loved the Uboat watches , bought myself 3 of them like 3 yrs ago , 53" tobacco , black dial and beige in 47 mm. i had to order them from italy those days , where can you get them now on east coast?

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Not sure - I am based in the Uk. You can get them from most online retailers these days. Also premium stores/jewelers sell them.

Mactime said:

thank you very much. Excellent video. What type RAM and Hard drive did you purchase and any links??

thanks

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Thanks.

Here you go:-

Computer memory upgrades for Apple MacBook Pro 2.26GHz Intel Core 2 Duo (13-inch DDR3) MB990LL/A Mid-2009 Laptop/Notebook from Crucial.com

chrismac said:

Thanks.

Here you go:-

Computer memory upgrades for Apple MacBook Pro 2.26GHz Intel Core 2 Duo (13-inch DDR3) MB990LL/A Mid-2009 Laptop/Notebook from Crucial.com

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Are you sure that's the right one? It cost almost 450 dollars. >_>"

Yep that's the correct page. You need to scroll down to find the 2 x 2gb option:

4GB kit (2GBx2), 204-pin SODIMM, DDR3 PC3-8500 upgrades for Apple MacBook Pro 2.26GHz Intel Core 2 Duo (13-inch DDR3) MB990LL/A Mid-2009 Laptop/Notebook, CT999660 from Crucial.com

Thanks for the video good sir, made me a little more comfortable about attempting this once I purchase.

Thanks for the video, I'll definitely use it when I upgrade my new MBP (same as yours in video).

No worries, I might do one or two more vids when I get a chance.