1TB HDD in Macbook Pro

If any of you guys want to get a 1TB in your Macbook Pro, i can confirm that this HDD fits in well and works pretty fast.
http://www.westerndigital.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=685
It is advanced format, and seems to work fine with OS X and does not require aligning like XP does. I would not install XP on this, since it seems that XP does not play nicely with advanced format.
The drive fits in perfectly since it is the same thickness as the battery. Even though it has 8MB of cache, and 5200RPM it works pretty fast. I will run some tests if anybody requests.

bogdi1988 wrote:
If any of you guys want to get a 1TB in your Macbook Pro, i can confirm that this HDD fits in well and works pretty fast.
http://www.westerndigital.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=685
It is advanced format, and seems to work fine with OS X and does not require aligning like XP does. I would not install XP on this, since it seems that XP does not play nicely with advanced format.
The drive fits in perfectly since it is the same thickness as the battery. Even though it has 8MB of cache, and 5200RPM it works pretty fast. I will run some tests if anybody requests.
Are you sure ? It is 12.5 mm high (the 500 Gb version installed in my MBP is 9.5 mm high).
If it's true, it's a very good news.

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