[otep1760]

im looking for a new hard drive for my MB, preferably about 120gb or 250gb.
what is the specific type the MB has to have? is it 2.5"?
any suggestions on good prices or types of hard drives?

thanks

[mfbernstein]

See this thread for starters.

Short suggestions: you need a 2.5" SATA drive, go for 5400RPM or faster, try to get a 3-year+ warranty model. IMO, the $90 160GB WD Scorpio from NewEgg is a good drive/price.

[Chito]

The 250 GB Scorpio is on sale at Best Buy this week for $130. That's .52/gig

[otep1760]

just about to order the WD scorpio.
so when i put it in ill have to re install tiger with the disk that came with my macbook right? is that all ill have to do?

other than using my external harddrive to put all my other stuff back on to it?

i appreciate all the help guys

[mfbernstein]

You can also use Carbon Copy Cloner to create a bootable clone of your MacBook on your external drive. Then if you put the new drive in your MB, you can boot off of the external drive, format the new internal drive, and clone the external drive to the internal one. In that case, you won't need to reinstall at all.

[otep1760]

how do i boot from my external HD?
and also how do i create the bootable version of my MB to my external?

[mfbernstein]

For creating a bootable clone, see the CCC docs.

To boot off an external drive, hold down option on bootup. You should get a list of bootable drives. Select the one you wish too boot off.

Note that to be bootable, you'll need to make sure the external drive and new internal drive are formatted using a GUID Partition Table (GPT). This can be done from Apple's Disk Utility program (/Applications/Utilities/).

[SierraDragon]

Check this 320 GB MCE drive out, just announced. I have been happy with MCE in the past and will buy one after OS 10.5.2 comes out (OS 10.5 required for the drive):
MCE 320GB/5400RPM MobileStor Performance Hard Drive Solution for MacBook Pro, MacBook: MCE Technologies Online Store

-Allen Wicks