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Hey hope you can help. I ordered a new 1TB hard drive for my MacBook Pro (mid 2009), when it arrived I realised it was a sata2 and not a sata as i thought i'd ordered. All i want to know is, should I send this back and get the sata or can i use the Sata 2?
I'm so confused!
 
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it is the speed difference, sata 2 is backward compatible with sata, the hard drive should fit. Give it a shot should work.
 
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To the best of my knowledge, there is no such thing as a 1TB notebook drive that will fit in the MacBook. All the 1TB notebook drives I've seen are 12.5mm and the MacBook requires a 9.5mm.

Things change and so I could be wrong about this but last I checked, the max capacity in a Mac notebook was 750GB due to that 9.5mm limitation.

PS. Whatever you do DO NOT try to force the 12.5mm in there.
 
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These are the specifications for the hard drive.

Drive Capacity: 1Tb
Interface: SATA 3.0 Gbps
Buffer DRAM: 8 MB
Drive Speed: 5400 rpm
Average Seek time: 12 ms
Data Transfer Rate (Media to/from Buffer): Max. 145 Mb/s
Data Transfer Rate (Buffer to/from Host): Max. 300 Mb/s
Average Latency: 5.6 ms
Drive Ready Time: 4 sec.
Non-recoverable Read Error: 1 sector in 10^14 bits
Acoustics: 2.4 Bel (Idle), 2.6 Bel (Performance Seek)
Operating Temperature: 5 - 55 º C
Non-Operating Temperature: -40 - 70 º C
Operating Humidity: 5 - 90 %
Non-Operating Humidity: 5 - 95 %
Operating Liner Shock (1/2 sine pulse): 325 G
Non-Operating Liner Shock (1/2 sine pulse): 750 G
Operating Vibration: 1.5 Grms
Operating Altitude: -300 - 3000 m
Non-Operating Altitude: -400 - 15000 m
Voltage: +5 V ± 5 %
Spin-up Current: Max. 1000 mA
Power Consumption: 2 W (Seek), 2.2 W (Read/Write), 0.7 W (0.7 W), 0.2 W (Standby/Sleep)
Dimensions (WxDxH): 69.75 x 100.3 x 9.5 mm
Weight: 107 g
 

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Things change and so I could be wrong about this but last I checked, the max capacity in a Mac notebook was 750GB due to that 9.5mm limitation.

For future reference chas, OWC stocks a Samsung drive that will fit. LINK
 
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Thanks for the update, good to know!

(Amazingly, I discovered this drive is also sold on Amazon for $20 less than OWC! I'm not in the market for it and for the $20 diff I'd buy it from OWC anyway as they would ship to me but wow, that's an amazing price IMO)
 

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