Hitachi TRAVELSTAR or Seagate MOMENTUS? need a 7200rpm 100 gb internal HD

i think the title sums it up, i need a 7200rpm 100 gb HD for some music editing and cpu intensive tasks. i dont want to tie up my firewire or usb port yet as i have other uses for them (midi keyboard, license key, audio i/o). now i'm looking at the Hitachi TRAVELSTAR and the Seagate MOMENTUS. done a little research and read that the Hitachi is slightly faster but runs slightly warmer and can be noiser. anyone whos updated their internal HD have any opinons, recommendations or general ideas or suggestions to add?

Was in the same position as you about a week ago. Spent a whole day researching which one was better and still didnt know which one to decide! lol... have you checked out this review:
http://www.techreport.com/reviews/2006q1/mobile-hdds/index.x
its a very detailed report on both drives. both drives are actually very good, from this review i chose seagate in the end cos it is meant to be quieter and also performs very well. however when i did get my drive it vibrates ALOT, the whole keyboard area was shaking and seeking was loud! this is meant to be common-ish bcos of the 7200rpm but a quick email to seagate and they replaced my drive straight away.
seagate has 5 yrs warranty!!
hope this helps
macbook Mac OS X (10.4.7)

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Hello,
I got my new MacBook today.... (its perfect)... no cow related issue etc.
I put my 2Gb Ram in... Champion... but I looked at the 7200 HD I bought, the following;
Hitachi Travelstar 7K100 100gb Ata6 2.5in 7200rpm 8mb
And the there are pins at the bottom, which looks very different to the bottom of the 60Gb HD that I took out.
I'm not sure what is going on... I din't try to install the HD yet, I thought I better double check here 1st.
Any suggestions?

Basically you bought the wrong model drive. You should have purchased an SATA version.

Hi mac; I need a new harddrive. Can I use Seagate Momentus 7200.4 320GB SATA 3Gb/s, 16MB, 7200RPM, for my Mybook pro mod A122615 2.5". Regards Jobjo

Hi mac; I need a new harddrive. Can I use Seagate Momentus® 7200.4 320GB SATA 3Gb/s, 16MB, 7200RPM, 2.5" for my Mybook pro mod A122615 .

Here is a link to the 320G drive, it is 7200 rpm
http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=006442b3f64f9110VgnVCM100000f5ee 0a0aRCRD

7200RPM 200GB Hitachi Travelstar

Hey there
I'm new to this forum...
Has anyone tried the 7200RPM 200GB Hitachi Travelstar in the 12" Powerbook..
After 5 years of very happy computing, I am upgrading my poor battered laptop.. It now has the max ram and I want to speed up the drive.. I have read about the heat and battery issues but will try it anyway..
Cool forum BTW
Billy

Unless I am mistaken, Hitachi's 2.5" 7200 RPM 200GB Travelstar is a Serial ATA drive, which is not compatible with any PowerBook since they use Parallel ATA (aka IDE).
The largest compatible 7200RPM drive currently available is the 100GB Travelstar. However, if you want the capacity, then Western Digital's 250GB 5400RPM Scorpio is the largest you can get, and the speed isn't too bad. Other good but less capacious alternatives are the 5400RPM 160GB offerings from Hitachi and Seagate.
Unless you are doing highly disk intensive work, the speed difference between 5400RPM and 7200RPM should be hardly noticeable in day-to-day usage.

ERROR 2010 when installing Hitachi Travelstar 160 GB Hard Disk

I have just purchased a Hitachi Travelstar 5K160 160GB 2.5" Hard drive
I have it installed in a Lenovo T43 Laptop and I get the following error from the BIOS
ERROR 2010
The Hard drisk drive that you have installed has not been qualified for use in this computer or does not have
latest firmware
It allows me to continue <ESC>
I have formated the disk and installed the Fedora OS and everything is fine
1: Do you know what is causing this and how do I fix it
or
2: How do I turn off the error message ?

There is a firmware update utility on the Lenovo Support and downloads site you mite try. I have 2 Hitachi HDD's in my machine one of which needed the firmware update. It worked for me.
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Singtoh
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What is currently the best hard drive upgrade for 2009 white mac book? (within reason! ;-) ) looking at Seagate momentus 7200 320gb and momentus XT

hello people of the Apple community.
There seems to be a lot of threads regarding some similar issues. Some of the questions seem a few years old so I thought I'd post a new thread. I have a white 2009 macbook and I need to upgrade the hard drive to I think 320gb - cant afford any more. Im looking for a good 320gb fast-ish drive.
A few questions arise as Im not 100% clued up with the terminology
1) Is sata 300 of any benefit? how do i check what mine currently uses?
2) Cache size and spindle speed: is 16mb the standard? and does 7200rpm drain the battery quicker? what do most people go for?
3) Pleeeese someone recommend something good! The more you look the more numbers and options come available!
Im looking at the Seagate momentus range .. Is the XT range of any benefit on my machine?
Thanks, Jeremy

If I may, it seems uneconomical to spend any amount of $$ to upgrade a "long in the tooth" Macbook. Instead, why not a huge (say 1 TB) external drive for $100.00? And move some of the files from the internal to the external. It will require some "house keeping" to decide what files go where, but this could free up a lot space on the internal, and therefore boost performance as well. And when the long in the tooth finally dies, you will still have the external.

I want to install a Seagate Momentus 5400 250 GB HD Can I?

I have a MacBook 13" with a 1.83capsule GHz Intel Core Duo and the internal hard drive quit on me. I can't even get disk utilities to see the disk, much less mount it. Fortunately for me, I have a Time Machine on an external HD, and another external HD that I was able to install OS X 10.6.8 (using updates) so I can use the computer. I am looking at a Seagate Momentus 5400.6 250GB 2.5 Hard Drive-SATA 3GB, 8MB
Can I do this? As the original HD was 60GB, will there be any problem using the 250GB drive? Also, I need to know how to install it (Actually, because my hands shake, I am going to ask a friend to do the actual work).
This is NOT the Seagate Momentus XT that is 7200 rpm spindle speed that seems to be causing trouble to some people.

Welcome to Apple Support Communities.
Yes, the drive you mentioned will work just fine, and someone can install it for you with the proper tools, a very small Torx T8driver, and a very small Phillips #0 screwdriver.
OtherWorldComputing has videos that show the remove/reinstall process step-by-step for each specific Mac model:
http://eshop.macsales.com/installvideos/
This is the one you'll probably need for your original MacBook:
http://eshop.macsales.com/installvideos/macbook_13_mem_hd_m/
I've purchased several Mac upgrades from OtherWorldComputing (www.macsales.com) They are a great source of reliable Mac parts and information, and sell separate components as well as complete kits with all the tools necessary for the swap with the hard drive of your choice.
You can purchase tools separately or in a kit including an external USB drive housing to make copying your internal hard drive contents to the new drive easier. Since your internal drive is not working, you may not need want another external housing now, but it might come in handy later.
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Hitachi Travelstar 100GB 7200 RPM

Hi.
I'm replacing the HD in my 12" Power Book G4. 867 processor
machine model: Powerbook 6,1
CPU: Power PC G4 (3.3)
Swapping out a broken Toshiba 55.89 GB drive.
I'd like to buy the Hitachi Travelstar 7k100
7200 Rpm ATA-6
Will it work with my machine?
Thanks
D

Yes. Good choice, it performs well:
http://www.barefeats.com/hard61.html
This 7200rpm will not have a dramatic impact on battery life above a 5400rpm drive.
Matt

Seagate Momentus internal G force protection

Hello,
I am planning to purchase this exact hard drive upgrade for my macbook.
Seagate Momentus 7200.2 200GB 7200RPM SATA drive. ST9200420ASG
The question is: will the new drive's built-in G-force protection conflict with MacBook's built-in sudden motion sensor? Or will they work in harmony? Or will one of them turn off?
According to Seagate's manual, http://www.seagate.com/staticfiles/support/disc/manuals/notebook/momentus/7200.2 /100451238d.pdf
2.13.1 Free Fall Protection feature
The Free Fall Protection feature provides enhanced data protection against shock events that may occur while the drive is operating. This feature is designed to decrease the likelihood of data loss by detecting a free fall event and unloading the actuator before a shock takes place in falls of >8 inches (nominal). The drive uses a 0 G sensor mounted on the printed circuit board assembly (PCBA) to sense this event.
To enable the Free Fall Protection feature on ST9200420ASG, ST9160823ASG and ST980813ASG models, use Set Features command 41h. To disable this feature, use Set Features command C1h. Information about Free Fall Events that have occurred are available through SMART Attribute FEh.
Note: The Free Fall Protection Feature is provided only on ST9200420ASG, ST9160823ASG and ST980813ASG models
It says I can issue SMART commands to turn the free fall protection on/off, but I am not sure how to do this in OSX.
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Just tried to boot Gentoo Minimal Boot CD for x86, and what happens when i attach the USB disk? it shows without any problems what so ever. So ive confirmed that this is not a hardware issue.

Recently installed a 1TB hitachi travelstar hard drive into my Macbook 10.6.8 however Time Machine says not configured hence cannot back anything up

Recently installed a 1TB Hitachi travelstar hard drive into my Macbook (13inch mid 2010) OS X 10.6.8 .
However now having problems with configuring , latest issue my Time Machine says Not Configured hence cannot back up using this device !
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You installed the new hdd with new install of Mac OS .. or did you recover your old TM setup??
If TM cannot locate the Time Capsule .. is it visible in airport utility or finder??
Are you even using a TC?? If you are using an external drive you need to spell it all out.
Time Machine may not recognise the old backup.. you can usually inherit the old one.
See B5 and B6 here.
http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html
Otherwise use A4.. delete the existing TM setup and reconfigure it from scratch. If you do that TM should discover and reuse the old backups if possible.. but a new hard disk might not be possible it may need to start over.

Hitachi Travelstar HD always spinning?

After following some advice from here, and reading many past threads, I installed a new Hitach Travelstar 7200rpm 100Gb HD into my Ti. The installation was a little fiddly but I got there in the end.
Since I installed it ive noticed a constant "spinning fan" noise coming from beneath the trackpad area, which is where the drive's located.
Is the constant "fan like" noise normal operation?
Everynow and then i'll hear louder "scratching" noises which from my understanding is normal HD operation, but the "fan like" noise concerns me.
Only I never noticed such a constant noise from my old 4400rpm drive.
Powerbook Ti 1Ghz Mac OS X (10.4.6)

I similarly recently installed a 60 GB Hitachi Travelstar 7200 rpm in my TiPB 867 replacing the original 40 GB 4200 rpm drive.
That spinning "fan like" noise you hear is normal, It is the drive itself. I had the noise with my 4200 drive and it took me quite a while to realise that the noise was not the fan at low speed. If the noise seems louder then it is because the drive is spinning much faster. When the fan(s) come on you will notice the noise difference. Actually I am now not sure of the speed advantage of 7200 v 4200/5400 because the fan(s) come on earlier than they used to, which is of course quite normal. I know the fans have no effect on the drive speed but it just seems to somewhat negate the speed increase when the fans come on earlier. And I suspect that the "average" home user can not really tell the difference between 5400 and 7200 rpm. Certainly more modern PBs than ours are better designed to handle higher speed drives.
The way to tell if the noise is your drive is to spin down the drive either thru the Energy Saver prefs or the Terminal commands without the PB going into deep sleep.
HTH
TiPB 867 Mac OS X (10.4.6)

I ordered Seagate Momentus 7200.3 320GB 7.2K 2.5-inch SATA HD...

I just ordered a new Seagate Momentus 7200.3 320GB 7.2K 2.5-inch SATA Hard Drive ST9320421ASG - Brand New OEM. What I want to make sure (in case I need to cancel the order) is that this will be the same as the one that came with my Unibody Macbook Pro (it has the same model number...but does Apple customize these in any way?)
Thanks!

Yeah, mine is enabled too. Not that I want to do this...but do we have the option of disabling the motion sensor? If so, I'd like to know how .
PS: I wound up ordering the Seagate ST9320423ASG SATA Hard Drive because the other one was an older model. Pretty much the same thing though.

Seagate Momentus 7200.3

I just put a Seagate® Momentus® 7200.3 in my 2.4 Macbook. It's brilliant!
Very easy to change and is soooo much faster! Photoshop opens in about 2 seconds!

Size and interface is a problem. Most are around 15 mm thick and most use the Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) interface. I don't even think they're actually meant for mobile computing. These are 2.5" enterprise hard drives meant for applications like blade computing. They consume at least twice as much power as most 7200 RPM SATA laptop drives and likely run hot.
There are even some 15,000 RPM 2.5" drives.
Hitachi:
http://www.hitachigst.com/portal/site/en/menuitem.03e21da75b9c0cb0483bad24eac4f0 a0/
Fujitsu:
http://www.fujitsu.com/us/services/computing/storage/hdd/enterprise/mbb2147rc.ht ml
Seagate:
http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/products/servers/savvio/savvio_10k.3/
Western Digital (this one is SATA but still 15 mm thick):
http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=494&language=en

Does X200 support Seagate Momentus 7200.4?

I just bought a Seagate Momentus 7200.4 harddisk. I can see the name of the harddisk in BIOS but it seems that I could not use the harddisk to boot up and load the windows.
I have tried using the harddisk in my desktop and it worked perfectly. I wonder why the harddisk does not work in X200.
Thanks!

newbider2003, welcome to the forum,
have you attempted to install an OS on the drive? The flashing cursor says to me that you possibly cloned your old drive, maybe using Ghost? If this is the case you need to provide more information about what you have done.
If I am wrong, you don't need to look at this Lenovo tip.
Members will need more details.
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2.16GHz C2D MacBook (White) + 7200.2 Seagate Momentus SATA = O.K.?

Does anyone know if a Seagate Momentus 7200.2 SATA 2.5" HDD is OK to run in the newer Core 2 Duo 2.16GHz MacBooks? I don't see any 7200rpm drives listed as available Apple upgrades for any of the MacBooks other than the MacBook Pro series. I'm thinking this is probably do to a cost reduction value. Does anyone know if there are any technical issues which would prevent one from installing a 7200rpm SATA HDD in the current shipping version of the MacBook? I have had very solid performance increases running this HDD setup in my Intel Mac Mini and would like to do the same thing to my new MacBook unless it is somehow "bad" for the system. Thanks all!
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It probably isn't listed yet because the drive probably wasn't available when the specs were written. The drives are coming out faster than anyone can keep up with.
That drive should work ok. I saw it for sell at quite a few vendors for MacBook hard drives.

Hitachi TRAVELSTAR or Seagate MOMENTUS? need a 7200rpm 100 gb internal HD

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