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Apple Computing Products:
macOS - Notebook Hardware
Macbook Pro 13in mid 2009 1tb hard drive upgrade
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<blockquote data-quote="s2odin" data-source="post: 1153935" data-attributes="member: 176525"><p><a href="http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2240188" target="_blank">Apple - Support - Discussions - 12.5mm thick hard drive on macbook ...</a></p><p></p><p>Looks like it will fit, but not like it is designed to. Your back cover will not close all the way, so the way I see it, it does not fit. Up to you tho. And remember with a 1 TB HD there are 3 spinning platters in there. 5000RPM is probably the max speed, which is going to be slower than the default apple hard drives. If you are used to things going slow, then by all means go ahead and do it. If you want speed, pick up a 1TB+ external hard drive with firewire and use that as your main storage and free up some space on your current hard drive.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="s2odin, post: 1153935, member: 176525"] [url=http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2240188]Apple - Support - Discussions - 12.5mm thick hard drive on macbook ...[/url] Looks like it will fit, but not like it is designed to. Your back cover will not close all the way, so the way I see it, it does not fit. Up to you tho. And remember with a 1 TB HD there are 3 spinning platters in there. 5000RPM is probably the max speed, which is going to be slower than the default apple hard drives. If you are used to things going slow, then by all means go ahead and do it. If you want speed, pick up a 1TB+ external hard drive with firewire and use that as your main storage and free up some space on your current hard drive. [/QUOTE]
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