I am planning to buy a refurbished, mid-2010 Macbook Pro. I would like to upgrade the hard drive to a higher capacity after I purchase it, and while I have found some notebook hard drives, apparently some drives that are optimized for energy-efficiency on Windows have issues working with OS X. Can anyone recommend a 750 GB or more notebook hard drive that should work on a Macbook Pro, with OS X, Windows, and Linux?
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The Western Digital Scorpio Blue line up of drives has traditionally served me well when I have replaced my old MacBook's drive in the past. I have a mid-2010 MacBook Pro now and while I am sticking to the stock 500GB 7200rpm drive, I don't think you'd have any issues with a Seagate or Western Digital drive in these laptops. Keep in mind, though, that the 2010 models have a SATA II (3 Gb/s) interface and not the SATA III (6 Gb/s) interface that the new 2011 models have. In fact, my MBP came with the Seagate Momentus 7200.4 (model ST9500420ASG) and it has been working great so far despite some earlier reports of issues with some models. I believe a firmware update resolved those issues. | |||
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The absolutely best laptop hard drive for the money and performance is the Seagate Momentus XT 500GB. It is a hybrid SSD drive that gives you real world performance of an SSD and the storage capacity of a HDD with a price closer to the HDD realm. It gets a very rare Best of Tom's award for excellence from Tom's Hardware. | |||||||
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