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Upgrading HDD - a few quick questions
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<blockquote data-quote="s2odin" data-source="post: 1149229" data-attributes="member: 176525"><p>1. Only thing about laptop HD's is you need to make sure it is a 2.5" form factor with a 9.5mm height. You can use anything up to 500GB (and I think a 640GB Samsung Spinpoint). Then you need to look at the speed of the drive. There are 5400rpm drives and 7200 rpm drives. 7200rpm drives will boot up faster, and save/open things a bit faster than a 5400rpm drive. If you bought it from Apple, it will have a 5400rpm drive. I recommend getting a nice 7200rpm drive.</p><p></p><p>Look at: WD Scorpio</p><p>Seagate Momentus / Momentus XT</p><p>Samsung Spinpoint</p><p></p><p>2. What I would recommend doing is just leave your hard drive in your laptop, and put your new one in the external enclosure. Then use CCC or SuperDuper! to copy the internal to the external, which you have already done. Or put the external in (if you don't trust the internal) and then put the new hard drive in the external and copy it over.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="s2odin, post: 1149229, member: 176525"] 1. Only thing about laptop HD's is you need to make sure it is a 2.5" form factor with a 9.5mm height. You can use anything up to 500GB (and I think a 640GB Samsung Spinpoint). Then you need to look at the speed of the drive. There are 5400rpm drives and 7200 rpm drives. 7200rpm drives will boot up faster, and save/open things a bit faster than a 5400rpm drive. If you bought it from Apple, it will have a 5400rpm drive. I recommend getting a nice 7200rpm drive. Look at: WD Scorpio Seagate Momentus / Momentus XT Samsung Spinpoint 2. What I would recommend doing is just leave your hard drive in your laptop, and put your new one in the external enclosure. Then use CCC or SuperDuper! to copy the internal to the external, which you have already done. Or put the external in (if you don't trust the internal) and then put the new hard drive in the external and copy it over. [/QUOTE]
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