How big of a hard drive can I install on my MacBook unibody polycarbonate

I'm running out of space of my MacBook's hard drive and I want to upgrade it. Would it be able to accept a 1tb hard drive drive? And also I'm going to be upgrading ram to 8gb because mountain has slowed my computer down. I don't mind doing this because my computer is very important to me.

Hi,
Should be ok to use 2TB HDD and lower. Anything bigger/larger (capacity) than 2.2TB you may get problem and have to do more work to be able to get it right.
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BH
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