Hello, I would appreciate some opinions and advice from you good folk out there. I recently bought a replacement HDD for my Macbook (White) Late 2008, as the original 120GB was getting a bit full. Decided to go for the Western Digital 500GB 5400rpm (WD5000BEVT) as I had read good reviews from Macbook owners. After installing it and with a fresh install of Leopard, however, I immediately noticed hanging and freezing with the simplest of tasks, including scrolling through web pages or documents. Sometimes there is a delay of up to 5 seconds before the Macbook would respond and when playing video or audio files there would be similar pauses or freezes.
Now, I assumed this was just a faulty new HDD so have started the returns procedure...BUT...when I put the original HDD back in, I noticed similar pauses - although nowhere near as bad. So I am wondering; could the new HDD have actually corrupted something in my Macbook and this is why my original HDD is now starting to act up? Is there anything else that might produce these symptoms of freezing and pausing (which do seem like disk access issues, as there are faint clicks which accompany each pause) or have I just been unlucky and had two HDDs fail on me? Many thanks for any help.
Now, I assumed this was just a faulty new HDD so have started the returns procedure...BUT...when I put the original HDD back in, I noticed similar pauses - although nowhere near as bad. So I am wondering; could the new HDD have actually corrupted something in my Macbook and this is why my original HDD is now starting to act up? Is there anything else that might produce these symptoms of freezing and pausing (which do seem like disk access issues, as there are faint clicks which accompany each pause) or have I just been unlucky and had two HDDs fail on me? Many thanks for any help.