SATA vs ATA hard drive

pigoo3

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Your Mac's Specs
2017 15" MBP, 16gig ram, 1TB SSD, OS 10.15
Your 2008 MacBook Pro needs an SATA hard drive. Any of these from OWC will work:

2.5" Serial-ATA (SATA) Notebook Drives

I'm assuming you want a "traditional" hard drive...not an SSD...so ignore the SSD's listed.

- Nick
 
harryb2448

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Silver M1 iMac 512/16/8/8 macOS 11.6
The one in your link Frank is an external case and drive so don't buy that one.
 

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