Q: What is the largest harddrive I can get for my Macbook?

[top...@gmail.com]

I have a friend who has a 15" Macbook pro intel core2duo with a
current harddrive of 120 GBs.

It has 2 G's of memory and is running 10.5.8.

She is planning to change the harddrive. What is the largest capacity
harddrive this computer can handle? Can it handle a 1TB harddrive?

Thanks

[Bob Harris]

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"top...@gmail.com" <top...@gmail.com> wrote:

I recently put a 2.5" 7200rpm 500GB Seagate SATA drive into my
MacBook (late 2006 manufacture).

Bob Harris

[David Empson]

Tim Lance <see...@bottom.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:55:00 -0500, top...@gmail.com wrote
> (in article
> <75e12ba1-4044-4707...@f18g2000prf.googlegroups.com>):

> I've put some WesternDigital 320 B drives into both MBs and MBPs. The Hitachi
> 500 B is too thick. I know of no 1 TB laptop drives, not that I've been
> paying much attention.

Someone recently announced a 1 TB 2.5" drive (Western Digital, I think),
but it is 12 mm thick, too thick to fit in a MacBook Pro.

The highest capacity/speed drive currently available which fits in a
MacBook Pro (maximum thickness 9 mm) is 500 GB and 7200 rpm. Not sure
which brands are thin enough, but there is at least one Seagate model.

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David Empson
dem...@actrix.gen.nz

[ToprakA]

On Aug 26, 10:08 pm, demp...@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) wrote:
> Tim Lance <see....@bottom.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:55:00 -0500, topr...@gmail.com wrote
> > (in article
> > <75e12ba1-4044-4707-a299-a85345650...@f18g2000prf.googlegroups.com>):

>
> > > I have a friend who has a 15" Macbook pro  intel core2duo with a
> > > current harddrive of 120 GBs.
>
> > > It has 2 G's of memory and is running 10.5.8.
>
> > > She is planning to change the harddrive. What is the largest capacity
> > > harddrive this computer can handle?  Can it handle a 1TB harddrive?
>
> > I've put some WesternDigital 320 B drives into both MBs and MBPs. The Hitachi
> > 500 B is too thick. I know of no 1 TB laptop drives, not that I've been
> > paying much attention.
>
> Someone recently announced a 1 TB 2.5" drive (Western Digital, I think),
> but it is 12 mm thick, too thick to fit in a MacBook Pro.
>
> The highest capacity/speed drive currently available which fits in a
> MacBook Pro (maximum thickness 9 mm) is 500 GB and 7200 rpm. Not sure
> which brands are thin enough, but there is at least one Seagate model.
>
> --
> David Empson

> demp...@actrix.gen.nz

So, other than size limitations, there is no limitatio from the O/S
end?

Thanks

[nospam]

In article
<ea97acbd-15e3-4810...@r24g2000prf.googlegroups.com>,
ToprakA <top...@gmail.com> wrote:

> So, other than size limitations, there is no limitatio from the O/S
> end?

none. the only limitation is that it must have a sata interface and be
9.5 mm thick so that it physically fits inside the laptop. as far as
the operating system is concerned, the capacity limit is *far* bigger
than any drive you'll see any time soon.

[Timothy Mathews]

I put a Fujitsu 500 gigger in my 13" Macbook Pro

[David Lesher]

ToprakA <top...@gmail.com> writes:

>So, other than size limitations, there is no limitatio from the O/S
>end?

There are hardware, BIOS err Firmware err EFI limits & OS limits.

The intel core2duo MacBook Pro uses SATA, and while SATA has some size
limit, I don't think current drives come close. [ISTM it's ATA6's 177
Petabytes, but I can't recall for sure.]

HFS+ has a limit of 8 EiB {i.e. 8*2^60 bytes} so I doubt that
will come up, either...

Power and cooling may be worth considerin, however...