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bballe336 · Sep 15, 2008, 05:43 PM

I've heard that western digital hard drives have built in drop sensors that cause issues such as kernel panics with the MBP. I'm looking at a 320gb 7200rpm western digital and I'm just wondering if it will work with no issues.

Thanks for any help.

ibook_steve · Sep 16, 2008, 01:42 AM

I've never heard of this problem. I'm using that drive and I've had zero kernel panics.

Steve

Guy Kuo · Sep 16, 2008, 02:56 AM

There as a limited range of early WD drives that had firmware incompatible with the Mac and caused kernel panics due to their motion sensor. However, that seems to be limited in scope. I myself have used WD 250 and WD 350 GB drives without kernel panic problems in my MacBook. This is on a machine that gets moved throughout the day.

BTW the have a 500 GB unit in volume release now. (Just days after I installed a Samsung 500 MB drive in the MacBook)