1TB HDD in 13" MacBook Pro

Looking to upgrade my MBPs internal hard drive. Will a late 2009 13" Macbook Pro (Snow Leopard) recognize all of a 1TB internal hard drive? If not, what's the Max size I can go to without wasted space?

it will recognize 1tb 2.5" hard drive, installed one the other day on a 13" MBP. Sees all 1000 beautiful megabytes as well. Client ordered from OWC
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Western%20Digital/WD10TPVT/

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Sorry, 12.5mm high not 12.5" high!
Can I fit a 1TB HDD into a MacBook Pro 17" 2.4GHz which was released in mid 2007? There are 1TB HDD available but they are 12.5mm high. Will they fit this model MacBook Pro?

Changing HDD for my Macbook Pro?

Hey people.
I got a Macbook Pro 2010 model. The Core 2 Duo one before it went to the "i series." I just wanna know if I can change my 320gb hdd to like a 1TB or if not a 750gb. I know that i will be relying on my mac more than my PC these days so i guess i gotta make sure i have sufficient space.
Regards.

Whether you have a Core Duo or Core 2 Duo is irrelevant to replacing a HDD.
You need a 2.5 inch notebook SATA drive that is not more than 9.5 mm high. I would recommend a Seagate product. You can install drives up to 1 TB, but be sure it isn't more than 9.5 mm high. Since I am in the US I cannot recommend a place to buy drives or what their prices will be. However, you can check out OWC to for their video tutorials on how to replace a drive in your model.
I would suggest you might consider buying a newer computer model as yours is completely obsolete.

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I have macbook pro and looking to upgrade the base HDD of 160GB to maximum supported. I bought this in march 2007, so should be late 2006 model.
Can someone share the knowledge, if they had upgraded to the bigger HDD? Also what capacity we can go as max?
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The only limit you have is about 1TB - now about the largest drives that will fit in notebook computers. Do you really have the need for something so large, though. You could get a good price on a 500-750GB drive and that would increase your internal storage nicely. Your model and OS don't limit you to the size of the hard drive you can install.
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I have recently bought a WD 2.5 inch SATA 750GB 7200RPM 16GB HDD and plan to use it on my macbook pro 13 inch 2.4ghz early 2011. I will leave the pysical installation part to Apple Service. I have my Time Machine backup on an external hard disk. So, once I get the upgraded macbook, what are the steps I should follow for a complete Time Machine restore? (Including the formatting on the new HDD).
One more question; when I transfer my applications to the new HDD will Time Machine "remember" their activation codes and license information ?
Thanks a lot.

http://web.me.com/pondini/Time_Machine/14.html
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Good luck!

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Can I plug it into an external hdd casing and hope I can see it like any other external drive?
Yes, that should work just fine, as long as you aren't trying to boot from it. If you just want to connect it to a running MBP and access the data on it, you should have no trouble doing that.

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have a mid 2012 macbook pro 15 inch. I replaced hdd drive with ssd drive and put hdd drive in optic bay. Was wondering what the best way to use both together is

Use your SSD for your system, applications, working projects, as a scratch disk (if you're editing photos or video, for example) and you can use the HD to store you user files (Documents) and infrequently accessed files.
The only disadvantage that I see with a setup like yours is backups. You can use clones to backup both drives, and Time Machine to - at least - backup your boot drive, but you're going to run the risk of losing data if you don't clone your HD. That's a minimum of two clones for one computer (I shouldn't be one to be talking about excessive clones, though, as I keep three clones of my SSD, one clone of my 2TB 'working' drive, and two Time Machine backups of my SSD).
But that's the way I'd treat the drive in the opti-bay - just as an 'internal' external drive.
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New hdd for my macbook pro 15'' from 2007

Hi mi macbook pro is 15'' and from 2007. I've been told by one guy from regent street in london from the stuff that i need to replace my HDD, and im looking on webs for one. But mine is 2GHZ INTEL CORE DUO, but all i can find are Core 2 duo, and not sure if im gonna buy it and then dont work on my laptop. Can someone help me?

Whether you have a Core Duo or Core 2 Duo is irrelevant to replacing a HDD.
You need a 2.5 inch notebook SATA drive that is not more than 9.5 mm high. I would recommend a Seagate product. You can install drives up to 1 TB, but be sure it isn't more than 9.5 mm high. Since I am in the US I cannot recommend a place to buy drives or what their prices will be. However, you can check out OWC to for their video tutorials on how to replace a drive in your model.
I would suggest you might consider buying a newer computer model as yours is completely obsolete.

What is Max HDD size for MacBook Pro 15" bought in 2006-07

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I bought a MacBook Pro 15" about 3.5 - 4 yrs ago. The model is A1211.
It came with 120GB HDD, 2GB RAM.
What is the maximum HDD size that this will support? The Apple store employee says, it will support only upto 160 GB. But, I am skeptical it would be that low.
So, was wondering if anybody knows the max size, and also, which HDD would be best. I want at least 320 GB.

You can get a 750 GB drive that is 9.5mm high. As far as I know, the 1 TB drives are all still 12.5 mm high, although that could change at any time.
The fastest 750 GB drive I know of is this one:
http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/products/laptops/laptop-hard-drives/
It is 7200 RPM. At 5400 RPM, there are many other choices. You might want to shop at Newegg, which often has specials on drives, as does Tiger Direct. Newegg also has reviews of individual drives you can look at.
Personally, I like Western Digital drives, and put the 500 GB Scorpio Black drive in my 2007 MBP, where it has performed without issue. The largest drive that originally shipped with my MBP was a 4200RPM 250 GB drive, the very biggest one you could order in a MBP back then.
Any 2.5 inch SATA drive should work just fine. The only one I would avoid is WD's 640 GB drive because a number of people have has issues with it in their Macs.
You might shop around on line a bit, and if you are torn between two or more drives, post back with what they are and ask for opinions. Everybody has favorite drives, so it may not be possible to get anything other than a bunch of opinions.
One other thing to watch out for. Some drives are sold with or without some form of free fall sensor. Apple has its own built in sensor called the Sudden Motion Sensor. In some machines and drives, there seems to be a conflict between the drive's sensor and Apple's SMS. If that happens, you would need to disable Apple's sensor. Usually it's easier just to select the drive without a built-in sensor and let Apple's SMS work as its designed to do. In the Seagate drive I linked, it's called "G-Force", but would have a different name in a different brand.
Incidentally, you can up your RAM to 3 GB if you like.
Good luck!

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Greetings guys,
I would need a hint or two. I have late 2012 MacBook pro 13', and I want to install Samsung SSD into it to improve it's performance. Now, I am musician, and I am using software instruments a lot, and I have tons of those installed on my HDD. I know how to replace HDD with SDD, but I want to :
1. Keep old HDD by geting rid of the DVD drive for storing the data
2. Transfer the whole system to the SSD with the operating system (I'm runing 1.8.5 Mountain Lion), and all the installations with it.
Should I just back up my system, replace the HDD with SSD, put HDD into DVD drive slot and just use Time machine from the external HDD on fresh SSD and that's it? Or is there more to it, please advise! Thanks!

Nexus6generation wrote:
Should I just back up my system, replace the HDD with SSD, put HDD into DVD drive slot and just use Time machine from the external HDD on fresh SSD and that's it?
That's fine.
However, what you can do is to clone the HDD onto the SSD without using a Time Machine backup, so you do not need an external drive. You have to do this after installing the SSD inside and putting the HDD in the DVD drive.
After putting the HDD in the DVD drive, turn on your Mac and it will start up in the HDD. Then, open Disk Utility and use it to format the SSD with a GUID partition table and "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)" as "Format" > http://pondini.org/OSX/DU1.html
After that, Disk Utility provides you a Restore option to clone a drive onto a different one, so put your HDD as "Source" and the SSD as "Destination" > http://pondini.org/OSX/DU7.html
Choose the option you want. The option you mentioned and the one I described are valid

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It sounds like you have an intermittent contact somewhere. It might be worth trying a different cable and a different port. Also try that cable with some other device.
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http://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/specs-retina/
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Scott Davidsom wrote:
Can we replace it by our own? I mean, can we buy a M.2 2280 or 2260 PCIe SSD to replace it if it fit?
You then may be risking voiding the warranty.
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Hello everybody,
I decided to install a SSD on my Macbook Pro, replacing the optical drive with it, then I set up the new disk to be the boot drive and left the HDD on its place to store media and stuff.
Obviously, my library now is on the HDD, but when I try to delete a file via iTunes I get a partial elimination, or no elimination at all. The songs remain on their place on iTunes. I have no idea why. My only theory is related to the TRIM option: I have a small application that enabled it on both drives, so maybe it may be a pain for the HDD?
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First, spinning hard drives don't use TRIM, so you can't enable it on your HD, only your SSD.
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I currently have a macbook air. I am going to get a macbook pro 15 inch and take out the optical drive and put the hdd there and then a samsung 840 pro ssd in the spot for the orginal hdd. What i want to do is first copy my disk from my air to the ssd on the pro. Then i want to put all my media files on to the hdd.
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Thanks for the responses. I REALLY appreciate it becuase I usually spend a lot of time spinning my wheels trying to make something work that doesn't.
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