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What's the fastest, most reliable drive for the Macbook?
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Or let me be more clear. What drive can I get to put into a Macbook that is 7200, yet still has a capacity over 250gb? Are my options nil? I know we talked about a 500gb drive but I haven't seen anything about those yet. I've got a 160gb drive in here right now and it's already full. Time to get something bigger.
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Backups are like guns and condoms. It's better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it.
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Mac update estimates:
MacBook Pro mid 3Q08 (Cantiga, 2.5-2.8Ghz); MacBook early-mid 4Q08 (Cantiga-G, 2.4-2.5Ghz); MacBook Air late 3Q08 (45nm); Mac Pro/Xserve mid-late 4Q08 (3+Ghz Nehalem); iMac early 1Q09 (Cantiga, 2.8-3.33Ghz, maybe quad option); Mac mini early 3Q08 (Crestline-G, 2.1-2.4Ghz 45nm).
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Thanks man.. you're a life saver 
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I can highly recommend the Momentus.
It's blazingly fast compared to my stock drive, just as quiet, had no noticeable impact on battery time and is very reliable so far. 
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The Momentus is a good drive, I had one (well two actually) of the 120GBs.
After reviewing BareFeats I decided to go for the Hitachi Travelstar 7K200. It was a bit cheaper than the Seagate, and faster for sustained read/writes.
Although the Momentus should perform better as a boot drive, I do a lot of video work and so the higher sustained speed is an advantage for me.
(And no, I don't capture to the internal drive, but I do frequently encode & transcode to my boot drive, e.g. when making DVDs)
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Hmmm... I do a lot of writting to the drives as well. If I went with a 320gb drive I'd be doing things like moving my torrent folder from an external firewire to my boot drive. Not sure exactly what I want to do yet but I know I want to do something fairly quick.
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Check out the Hitachi Travelstar 7K200 series -- they're 7200RPM, feature 16MB cache, and have minimal battery life impact. $170 bucks is the going rate for a 200GB SATA drive.
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I put one of those 7K200's in my MBP before I sold it -- solid drive. Whisper-quiet, but the general responsiveness of the entire machine went up immensely compared to having the stock 80 GB/5400 drive in there.
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Has anyone seen WD new raptor drives that are 10,000 rpm fast and are 2.5 inch drives in a 3.25 inch cooling enclosure. I wonder how tall they are and if they are useable in a laptop if removed from their cooling set-up.
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I'm told it'd melt the plastic of a macbook.
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I think they're 12.5mm tall, and at ~6.5W they'd probably overheat in the laptop enclosure if the power supply would even allow that much power to go one.
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It would be a worthy task to undertake none-the-less. But unfortunately I don't have the funds for that. If anyone reads about someone trying this or even related info on the 10,000rpm drives, just post it!
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Originally Posted by dowNNshift 
Check out the Hitachi Travelstar 7K200 series -- they're 7200RPM, feature 16MB cache, and have minimal battery life impact. $170 bucks is the going rate for a 200GB SATA drive.
How about almost 30% cheaper: $129.99
Purchase must be made between 04/25/08 and 05/23/08.
200GB 2.5" Hitachi Travelstar 7K200 7200RPM 16... (0A50940) at OWC
As of 05/02/08, it's even cheaper at the above link!
(Last edited by DCJ001; May 2, 2008 at 08:34 PM
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MacBook 13.3" • 2.0 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo • 4GB RAM • 200GB 7200 RPM HD
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Mac update estimates:
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