Hello,
I am not an IT person. I have been using Macs ever since 2003 but I am using them, not building them
I have a MacBook Pro with a 320 GB hdd, 5400 rotations, work find after 7 years.
I am about to upgrade another MacBook Pro. My friend did not want it, took the hard, and gave it to me. I would like to make it run.
I bought a SDD Samsung Evo 500 GB for the system. I plan to run IOS latest on it, plus windows 7 for a software I am using for my work.
As the MacBook has a dvd writer, I plan to take it out and use a caddy. Now, I have a friend who will do all this. Replace all the components. he is an IT person. and he has used for an Apple reseller for several years.
Now, my question related to the normal, rotation, hard drive.
He has several Apple certified 1tb hdd, Toshiba (as the one I have on my older MacBook Pro). He has used them a little as external hdd with a caddy. He also has a Samsung 2tb hdd, taken from an ASUS he upgraded with an SDD. The Samsung is new, it was used only as it came from the factory, Funny enough, in the upper left side it says seagate.com.
My question is... Should I get the Toshiba Apple certified or the Samsung?
I usually have only word, pdf and some pictures on my hdd. I don't watch movies on my laptop, very little. I have never experienced a hard drive crash in my life. I even have a 20 gb Dell laptop, still running, (if one is bothered to start it), so never had a problem with a hard drive.
Of course I will have a time machine. but I was wondering what you would recommend.
if I were to buy a new one, I would go for Hard Disk laptop SEAGATE Barracuda Guardian 2TB, 5400rpm, SATA3, 128MB, I cannot afford anything else right now. I would not buy this one either... Really..... Because it's double the price of the one above.
I don't want it to have speed, etc. I am not in a hurry, I don't play computer games, etc.
I just something that, if used decently, has less chances to brake.
Also, the Toshiba and the Samsung are 5400. The Toshiba has only 1tb, the Samsung 2tb. but I would like the one which cold be better, not the one that is necessarily bigger.
Thanks for your consideration
I am not an IT person. I have been using Macs ever since 2003 but I am using them, not building them
I have a MacBook Pro with a 320 GB hdd, 5400 rotations, work find after 7 years.
I am about to upgrade another MacBook Pro. My friend did not want it, took the hard, and gave it to me. I would like to make it run.
I bought a SDD Samsung Evo 500 GB for the system. I plan to run IOS latest on it, plus windows 7 for a software I am using for my work.
As the MacBook has a dvd writer, I plan to take it out and use a caddy. Now, I have a friend who will do all this. Replace all the components. he is an IT person. and he has used for an Apple reseller for several years.
Now, my question related to the normal, rotation, hard drive.
He has several Apple certified 1tb hdd, Toshiba (as the one I have on my older MacBook Pro). He has used them a little as external hdd with a caddy. He also has a Samsung 2tb hdd, taken from an ASUS he upgraded with an SDD. The Samsung is new, it was used only as it came from the factory, Funny enough, in the upper left side it says seagate.com.
My question is... Should I get the Toshiba Apple certified or the Samsung?
I usually have only word, pdf and some pictures on my hdd. I don't watch movies on my laptop, very little. I have never experienced a hard drive crash in my life. I even have a 20 gb Dell laptop, still running, (if one is bothered to start it), so never had a problem with a hard drive.
Of course I will have a time machine. but I was wondering what you would recommend.
if I were to buy a new one, I would go for Hard Disk laptop SEAGATE Barracuda Guardian 2TB, 5400rpm, SATA3, 128MB, I cannot afford anything else right now. I would not buy this one either... Really..... Because it's double the price of the one above.
I don't want it to have speed, etc. I am not in a hurry, I don't play computer games, etc.
I just something that, if used decently, has less chances to brake.
Also, the Toshiba and the Samsung are 5400. The Toshiba has only 1tb, the Samsung 2tb. but I would like the one which cold be better, not the one that is necessarily bigger.
Thanks for your consideration