7200 rpm disk in MacBook?

Hi,
at AppleStore it says that you can invidualize your MacBook with a faster hard drive for better performance, but there are no option to choose anything faster than 5400 rpm, only different sizes or solid state. Is it or isn't it possible to get a MacBook with a 7200 rpm disk? Or do I have to get the slower one and then replace it afterwards?
Thanks...

Paneer wrote:
Can you give me an idea what difference it makes in terms of battery life compared to the standard 5400 rpm HDDs?
Not likely to be that much different. The power draw from plugging in a USB flash drive is likely to be more than the difference between most 7200 and 5400 hard drives. It is highly dependent on the particular drive though. There are always manufacturing variations that can affect heat and power consumption. Some hard drives are also notorious for having great datasheet specs for power consumption, but in the real world they draw more power.
I haven't had any heat problems with my Hitachi Travelstar 7K200. I have heard of some issues with the newer Travelstar 7K320 though. It's supposed to have lower power consumption and heat draw, but perhaps that's a case where the datasheet is rather optimistic. I'd think the speed is probably top of the line with that drive.
If you want something that draws almost no power, try a solid-state drive. Pricey, but something like an Intel X25-M only draws 0.15 watt in full operation. That's less than a 5400 RPM drive in idle.

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Macbook First Generation with 7200 rpm hard disk. Is it possible?

Hello,
my name is Vincenzo.
I have Macbook (first generation) and i would like change my internal disk.
Is it compatible 7200 rpm disk with my macbook?
Thanks Vincenzo
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vincenzo79 wrote:
There is much difference in performance?
Compared to the 60GB 5400rpm that I replaced, the HDD access times for startup and opening applications became much better.
There are problems with overheating?
No noticeable difference.

Stop the beeps with the 7200 rpm hard disks of the MacBook Pro

http://www.hardmac.com/news/2009/07/13/stop-the-beeps-with-the-7200-rpm-hard-dis ks-of-the-macbook-pro
Stop the beeps with the 7200 rpm hard disks of the MacBook Pro
from HardMac.com by [email protected] (Lionel)
At the beginning of week, we have spoken about the unpleasant beeps made by the 7200 rpm hard drive proposed as an option in the MacBook Pro 2009.
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sudo ~/hdapm disk0 max
disk0 corresponds to the disc to regulate knowing that hdapm should function with any ATA disk supporting APM
max is the level of APM which is a number ranging between 1 and 254 included
the word following are preset and can used in the place a number for the level of APM
max (maximum performance) is the parameter to use to eliminate the “beeps”.
min (maximum economy of energy)
default (returns to the default setting)
The level of APM is a temporary adjustment in the firmware of the hard drive, this adjustment is lost when the disk is powered down and it is thus necessary to redo this at each for each start up.
To install hdapm so it is launched at each start-up, it is necessary to copy hdapm to the hard drive (/usr/local/bin is advised) and to copy the file hdapm.plist in /Library/LaunchDaemons.
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You can simply copy the file hdapm into /usr/local/bin file if you want to avoid modifying Plist.
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Yeah, I don't buy that. I spoke with Seagate a couple of months ago when I was looking for the impossible to find 500 GB 7200 RPM HD and asked them that very thing. They told me it would work fine, but I should disable SMS. Apple told me the same thing. I ultimately waited and got a non G-Force model, but Seagate told me it would work.
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7200 RPM drives in the Macbook Pro...

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