How thick a hard drive in MBP 15"

I know that a 17" MBP can handle a 12mm thick hard drive, but can the 15" MBP? The point of this question is that the largest drives (750GB and 1TB) are 12mm thick but smaller drives are usually 9mm thick.

The newest models with the Unibody construction can accommodate the higher drives, but the older aluminum body ones cannot. The older models require disassembly to install a drive, but the newer ones have the drives situated so that they are user replaceable like the MacBooks. Thus, the can use the thicker drives.

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