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MacBook 100 or 120 GB HD owners: how satisfied are you ?
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Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Belgium
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Hello,
I'd like to know if someone has a macbook with a 100 or 120 Gig hard drive (BTO) and if the HD is as silent as the standard 80 Gig.
Thanks :-)
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Forum Regular
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Toronto, ON, CAN
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I put a WD 120GB 5400 in mine and am happy. Slightly more vibration, but its barely noticable.
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Macbook 2ghz|2GB|160GB|SD
Mac Mini 1.83ghz|4GB|320GB 7200RPM|Combo
Mac Mini 1.83ghz|4GB|320GB 7200RPM|Combo
iMac 500mhz|768MB|30GB|DVD
iPod Nano 4GB iPod Shuffle 1GB iPhone 16GB White & 8GB Black
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Mac Elite
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Aiken, South Carolina, USA
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I've a 120gb. Very satisfied.
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Apple II GS | Powerbook 165 | iMac Rev. A 96mb RAM| iBook G3 500mhz, 128mb RAM | Power Macintosh G5 1.6ghz, 2.25gb RAM | Black MacBook 2ghz, 2gb RAM | iPhone Rev. A 8gb HD
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Madison, WI
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I added a Seagate Momentus 120 GB (5400 rpm) and no noticeable difference in noise. The noise will vary depending on the brand, though.
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Professional Poster
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Hampton Roads, VA
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I added a Hitachi 100gb and there was no change in noise/vibration.
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All glory to the hypnotoad.
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Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Belgium
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Are those drive provided by Apple (build to order) ?
I'm a bit concerned about a potential vibration issue with the 120 Gig model ... I tried a standard 80Gig model and it was so quiet.
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Senior User
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Darien, IL
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The 100GB that came in mine is absolutely wonderful. I really having more space than necessary just to be safe.
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BlacBook | 2.0ghz core duo | 2x320gb | 2gb ram | mba superdrive
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Jul 2006
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I have the CTO 100GB drive, it's awesome and completely silent.
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Mar 2006
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I have the WD 120 GB HD from macsales.com.
It was cheap and got to me in 2 days... It was easy to install, and I have noticed zero issues with it as far as vibration/noise/heat.
OWC rocks!
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13.3" White MacBook 2.0 Ghz
User added 120 GB WD HD and 2 GB RAM
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Forum Regular
Join Date: Feb 2003
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Right now, I have about 11 free gigs on my MacBook. I'm waiting for a SATA version of the new 2.5" perpendicular drives. That's when I'm doing my hdd upgrade.
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Senior User
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Washington, DC
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100 GB CTO MacBook here.
It's totally silent..I do feel some extremely slight vibrations when I rest my hand on the palmrest, but that's super-super-suepr nitpicky, and I wouldn't even have a thought about it (and didn't), until responding to your question.
I'm super-happy (and extremely impressed) with it. Also, 100 GB is really abount 93 GB, FYI.
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Junior Member
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Yay Area
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Well, I am probably uber picky... but....
I bought a stock 2.0ghz Whitebook from Amazon.
Took out the 60gb 5400 drive and replaced it with a 100gb HItachi Travelstar 7200rpm. The Hitachi drive was noisy (clicky, rattling noises even at idle) and very very hot.
I replaced it with a Seagate Momentus 100gb 7200 rpm drive, which I am VERY happy with. Quiet as the original drive, slightly warmer but overall recommended.
With today's announcement of drives as big as 160gb from Seagate, though, it makes me wish I would have waited.
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Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Belgium
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OK. I ordered the macbook with a 100 GB HD. Thanks all for you comments ;-)
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