What's the deal with upgrading your own hard drive? (MB)

PardonTheWait · 8 Jul 2007 at 16:57

Am I allowed? With RAM, I know they don't mind if you do it yourself, and it won't void your warranty unless you actually damage something while performing the upgrade. Is it the same with hard drives? I'd quite like a 7200rpm drive in my Macbook, but if it'll stuff my warranty I won't bother. I can't find anything on the Apple site about it, I was just wondering if anyone knew for certain on here.

Ta

J1234 · 8 Jul 2007 at 17:24

You can for a MacBook, Apple even show you how to do it in the manual, should no problems there.

PardonTheWait · 8 Jul 2007 at 22:05

Swish, ta

(I suppose I should have looked in there actually, but I assumed it wouldn't have been in there for some reason)

NickK · 8 Jul 2007 at 22:13

I read that the 7200rpm HD was the momentus series.

PardonTheWait · 8 Jul 2007 at 22:56

NickK said:
I read that the 7200rpm HD was the momentus series.

Groovy, that was one of the ones I was looking at

I might have to do it next payday

Spyhop · 8 Jul 2007 at 23:03

By all reports, those new Seagate drives are killer. Feel like buying one myself, despite not needing it at all

NickK · 8 Jul 2007 at 23:53

Guide to replacing your MB harddrive available here:
http://www.apple.com/support/manuals/macbook/

Just to be clear - the MBP comes with the momentus series. Not sure if that's the same with the MB.

Interesting comparasion for a 5400 to 7200 MBP DIY update:

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 Source: extremetech.com
		Original Momentus 5400.2 	New Momentus 7200.2 	Percent improvement
Sequential 4K blocks write 	39.16 MB/sec 	55.32 MB/sec 	41%
Sequential 256K blocks write 	32.45 MB/sec 	52.96 MB/sec 	63%
Sequential 4K blocks read 	13.00 MB/sec 	18.55 MB/sec 	42%
Sequential 256K blocks read 	31.74 MB/sec 	54.07 MB/sec 	70%
Random 4K blocks write 		0.62 MB/sec 	0.82 MB/sec 	32%
Random 256K blocks write 	19.30 MB/sec 	29.30 MB/sec 	52%
Random 4K blocks read 		0.48 MB/sec 	0.63 MB/sec 	31%
Random 256K blocks read 	16.41 MB/sec 	24.36 MB/sec 	48%

ironman · 9 Jul 2007 at 13:50

How much are these momentus hard drives?

J1234 · 9 Jul 2007 at 14:14

gurdas said:
How much are these momentus hard drives?

OcUK sell them, click.

NickK · 9 Jul 2007 at 19:02

I'd be interesting in making sure it has some form of movement sensing such as the gforce version

J1234 · 9 Jul 2007 at 19:29

NickK said:
I'd be interesting in making sure it has some form of movement sensing such as the gforce version

No need though as Mac laptops have built in sensors that do the same as that gforce thing.

macuser · 17 Jul 2007 at 11:38

Wish the MBP was as easy