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Hard Drive Crash
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<blockquote data-quote="ticedoff8" data-source="post: 957486" data-attributes="member: 117762"><p>It has been my experience that any S-ATA (Serial ATA) 2.5" laptop hard drive will work fine.</p><p></p><p>I've replaced my HD two or three times - getting a bigger drive each time (80GB, 160GB and now at 500GB) and I just buy what ever is on sale at Fry's Electronics - Seagate, WD, Maxtor - it doesn't seem to matter. I'm running a Seagate right now.</p><p></p><p>I always buy the 7200RPM drives - they give you faster access to the data.</p><p></p><p>If you Macbook 13" is Intel based, any of the newer OS disks will work. If it is Intel based, then I think you can do a clean install from the latest Snow Leopard "Upgrade" disk even without an existing OS installed.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ticedoff8, post: 957486, member: 117762"] It has been my experience that any S-ATA (Serial ATA) 2.5" laptop hard drive will work fine. I've replaced my HD two or three times - getting a bigger drive each time (80GB, 160GB and now at 500GB) and I just buy what ever is on sale at Fry's Electronics - Seagate, WD, Maxtor - it doesn't seem to matter. I'm running a Seagate right now. I always buy the 7200RPM drives - they give you faster access to the data. If you Macbook 13" is Intel based, any of the newer OS disks will work. If it is Intel based, then I think you can do a clean install from the latest Snow Leopard "Upgrade" disk even without an existing OS installed. [/QUOTE]
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