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This was a "no brainer"! Got this Hitachi hard drive at Fry's for $63.99 yesterday. Turns out that this HDD is the same brand and line as my stock 250gb, 5400RPM HDD in my Macbook Pro (mid2009) Unibody 15" 2.53, 4gb RAM.
Took out the 250, put in the 500, pressed power button, inserted OSX Snow Leopard disk while pressing 'C' at start up to boot from DVD, installed OSX, backed up from Time Machine and one hour later it was complete!
This was so easy its stupid!
I cannot feel or hear ANY difference from my stock HDD with this new 7200RPM hard drive and the computer is much snappier and starts up way faster. Seems to run about 10-15 degrees cooler on average as well.
I also cannot see much of a change in battery drain, although I have not rigorously tested that. Played with it last night and battery life was showing 5 hours or so.
PS: Some reviews claim that this is a 5400RPM drive in a 7200RPM box. I confirmed before purchase as listed 7200RPM on the hard drive itself and then double checked once installed; sure enough, this is a 7200RPM drive.
Here are the specs:
Model
Brand HITACHI
Series Travelstar 7K500
Model HD20500 IDK/7K
Packaging Retail
Performance
Interface SATA 3.0Gb/s
Capacity 500GB
Cache 16MB
Average Seek Time 12ms
Average Latency 4.2ms
RPM 7200 RPM
Physical Spec
Form Factor 2.5"
Manufacturer Warranty
Parts 3 years limited
Labor 3 years limited
Took out the 250, put in the 500, pressed power button, inserted OSX Snow Leopard disk while pressing 'C' at start up to boot from DVD, installed OSX, backed up from Time Machine and one hour later it was complete!
This was so easy its stupid!
I cannot feel or hear ANY difference from my stock HDD with this new 7200RPM hard drive and the computer is much snappier and starts up way faster. Seems to run about 10-15 degrees cooler on average as well.
I also cannot see much of a change in battery drain, although I have not rigorously tested that. Played with it last night and battery life was showing 5 hours or so.
PS: Some reviews claim that this is a 5400RPM drive in a 7200RPM box. I confirmed before purchase as listed 7200RPM on the hard drive itself and then double checked once installed; sure enough, this is a 7200RPM drive.
Here are the specs:
Model
Brand HITACHI
Series Travelstar 7K500
Model HD20500 IDK/7K
Packaging Retail
Performance
Interface SATA 3.0Gb/s
Capacity 500GB
Cache 16MB
Average Seek Time 12ms
Average Latency 4.2ms
RPM 7200 RPM
Physical Spec
Form Factor 2.5"
Manufacturer Warranty
Parts 3 years limited
Labor 3 years limited