WIll this hard drive work in my macbook pro?

crazypotatos · May 16, 2011

Hi,

I found this harddrive: Newegg.com - Seagate Momentus XT ST95005620AS 500GB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache 2.5" SATA 3.0Gb/s with NCQ Solid State Hybrid Drive -Bare Drive

On newegg and it looks pretty beast. I wanted to know if it will work with my macbook pro 13in late 2009 model.

And if you know if this drive will work in a ps3 "fat" let me know too. Thanks!!

cwa107 · May 16, 2011

That particular drive has some pretty severe compatibility issues with OS X. One of our staff members, bobtomay struggled with it for quite awhile before giving up.

crazypotatos · May 16, 2011

Thank you very much!

Do you have any that you would reccommend that are 500gb and 7200rpm?

cwa107 · May 16, 2011

crazypotatos said:
Thank you very much!

Do you have any that you would reccommend that are 500gb and 7200rpm?

I have a Hitachi 7k500 (actually had one in my last MBP too) and I'm very pleased with it. Speedy, quiet, cool and cheap. I don't think you can beat it:

Newegg.com - HITACHI Travelstar 7K500 HTS725032A9A364 (0A72333) 320GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache 2.5" SATA 3.0Gb/s Internal Notebook Hard Drive -Bare Drive

crazypotatos · May 16, 2011

Ok thank you very much! Much cheaper than the one that I previously stated. Now for my old 250gb drive, would I just purchase an enclosure for it and I could use it as a backup drive? Or would I just keep it and now mess with any of the files?

harryb2448 · May 17, 2011

Yes an enclosure, and you can boot from it and clone to your new hard drive using SuperDuper or Carbon Copy Cloner. Today one needs a back up of the operating system and important files. Your MacBook Pro have Firewire 800? Then look for a Firewire 800 case as this is much, much faster than USB.

Dec540 · May 19, 2011

I have that drive in my 2011 MBP 15". I haven't had a single issue with it and i've had noticeable performance gains with the new HDD

cjj14u · May 19, 2011

Dec540 said:
I have that drive in my 2011 MBP 15". I haven't had a single issue with it and i've had noticeable performance gains with the new HDD

Same here....no issues at all with the hybrid XT......

crazypotatos · May 21, 2011

I just looked at the forums and reviews on the seagate website. According to Seagate, downloading the newest firmware for it (sd 25 or something) fixes the problems. I think ill take my chances. The worst that can happen is that they give me my money back or a new one. I have an external hard drive so I can backup.