Hard drive replacement

I have an older (2007) mac laptop that needs a replacement hard drive (it just died from exhaustion).

The dead one is a Seagate ST9120822AS, with a part # 9S1133-042.

I am having a tough time to find a replacement with the same part number, but can find replacements with a slight change in part numbers (-020, etc....). These variations are from different types of computers (PC and not stated as mac).

Any suggestions on how to best replace the beat up hard drive is appreciated.

rjfoster03 said:

The dead one is a Seagate ST9120822AS, with a part # 9S1133-042.

I am having a tough time to find a replacement with the same part number...

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You don't need an exact replacement hard drive. Any SATA 2.5" laptop hard drive under 750gig will fit just fine. These are very very easy to find.

- Nick

You do not need the same part number, nor even the same brand of drive.

You can use any SATA 2.5" drive 9.5mm in height - which is just about all of them.
Get the largest, fastest drive you can afford.
Personally, with hard drives, I still recommend the WD Black drives.

You're also going to need your original boot discs or a bootable USB drive with 10.7 or later if you were running that to reinstall OS X unless you have a bootable clone backup.

Replacement

Thanks for the responses.... great news to hear. Much easier to find something verses the exact replacement.