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I bought a Fujitsu 500gb SATA internal hard drive from Ebay to fit into my Macbook.
It wasn't listed as being specifically for a Macbook, the spec was SATA which was good enough for me.
The 1st thing I noticed was the Fujitsu drive was thicker than the one already in the Mac (160gb).
Probably due to the extra platters inside it & I manged to get it to fit, but its a very tight squeeze to get it in.
I'm curious to know if all 500gb SATA 2.5" drives are that tight a fit for the Macbook ?
I noticed that the computers fans were running on & off for a while more so than if I had left the 160gb one in, I know the replacement hard drive is bigger & will need cooling down more.
The Macbook didn't reject it & on checking 'about this mac' its being recognized by the laptop.
I just wondered if anyone else has a similar sized hard drive (500gb) in their Macbook & if so which one did you buy & why ?
That is has anyone bought a SATA hard drive that isn't specified as being specific only to a Macbook ?
Or should you just buy Macbook specific hardware ?
I look forward to any posotive responses.
Thanks. ;D