I want to upgrade my hardd drive? Where can I purchase this?

I looked on the apple store website but couldn't find a place to purchase a bigger hard drive, where can I find this on the Australia apple site?
Also, do all hard drives have to be mac? just to be sure!!

Well - recommendations on the brand and model of hard drive to buy (and to avoid), as with recommendations for third-party RAM and graphics cards will vary with personal experience, reports from this forum and elsewhere, and the arrival and demise of specific models.
It also depends on what you are going to use it for, how much you want to spend and what is currently available in your country. An example for the S[erial]ATA drive type required here
http://www.shopbot.com.au/default.asp?kw=sata300gbdrive&position=search
Perhaps if you have a browse and post the links of specific SATA drives that catch your eye you will get some feedback on them...
It will also help if you state exactly what you will be using the drive for.
The D-I-Y instructions are here
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=26276
The data and power cables needed for an additional drive should be already in the G5, tucked in below drive bay 'B'.
Personally - I have the original Seagate 160GB plus an additional Seagate 300GB in this venerable DP2. Both are working ok. Some find the Seagates "noisy" but the harmless access sound can be reassuring in the absence of a drive access indicator LED...
The original 160 remains the boot drive and the 300 is used for scratch and data.
G5 DP2(A) 4GB; HD160+300; DVR-110D; 9800proSE(VeraxG03)/X800XT; 20"ACD; EyeTV-DTT; f/w800 200GB; iSight; iSkint
OS X 10.4.6

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Where do I purchase this I have tried everywhere?
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Hi, by download, do you really mean you tried to install it from a DVD?
Where exactly are you seeing this needs 10.5 at?
Even the oldest 2007 MacBook can run 10.6...
http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/macbook/specs/macbook-core-2-duo-2.0-white -13-mid-2007-specs.html
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The way the forums work, WE help solve and is reflected in points.
Glad we helped and hope maybe changed the direction you end up taking with your upgrades.
ce (SSD drive or hard drive) you are migrating to should be physically located in the same computer. Moving operating system files from one computer to another computer using software not specifically designed for that computer can cause issues due to software, hardware, and firmware version mismatches.
Always back up your storage device with Time Machine or Disk Utility before you start.
WD Black 1TB $89
http://www.amazon.com/Western-Digital-Caviar-Internal-Desktop/dp/B0036Q7MV0/
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http://www.amazon.com/Western-Digital-Caviar-Internal-Desktop/dp/B004CSIG1G/
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The old slower SATA II's bandwidth has gotten to be a choke point.
Having all your files on one drive is an even bigger limiting factor.
Isolating system from your media libraries and data, from any scratch drive, helps.
Moving some of those off to another bus, one of the PCIe slots, takes advantage of additional bandwidth available (and probably going to waste currently).
You may have noticed all the newest Macs and future Mac Pro. moving to PCIe SSDs and no longer using even SATA III. Anything you can do now in that regard will help. iPhoto, separate from "Pictures" folder on another high-speed device, or Aperture, and also Lightroom, as well as CS6 scratch space.
That also means you aren't limited to 4 SATA drives or devices, and you should be using those 4 already for system, data, backup, media files.
It does make a difference. It did with my 7 yr old Mac Pro 1,1. that and more RAM, retire older disk drives for newest models, and probably the last GPU mine can make use of , the ATI 5770 (replaced the Nvidia 8800GT that cost even more).

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I have a Linksys EA6500 Smart Wi-Fi Dual-Band Wireless router and setting it up using Smart Setup requires the Firefox 8 browser. I want to be sure I get this version rather than the latest which appears to be 33. What is the specific web site where I can download Firefox 8?

Hello EHCasam,
Thanks for contacting Mozilla Support. While it's not recommended using an older version of Firefox, you can find a list of our older versions [https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/ here].
I took a look at the documentation for that router and it does only say it's recommended. Have you tried it with the current version of Firefox and did you run into any trouble?
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I want to upgrade my Hard Drive to 1TB and more.
What is the maximun Hard Drive I can install for a MacBook Pro 2009
Yesterday, I tried a SEAGATE SSHD but my screen was always a showing a QUESTION MARK (?). It's not the cable because when I put back the old original version, everything works...Any sugestion of brabnding or procédure to upgrade my hard drive?

The largest 2.5" dia SATA drives available are 2 TB in capacity.
Have you tried the Seagate SSHD connected externally to the MBP via USB? The drive itself may be faulty.
Ciao.
Here is a good place to start looking for a replacement drive:
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/hard-drives/2.5-Notebook/

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I want to upgrade my hard drive

I want to upgrade my hard drive. At the moment it is 160gb in a 2009 MacBook Pro.
Do I just need a standard 2.5" sata hard drive?
I was looking at this one 500GB Hitachi 2.5” Travelstar HDD, SATA, 5400rpm, 8MB Cache.
Is this suitable.
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I found one, WD Scorpio Black 7200 RPM SATA 2.5-inch that claims not to impede the batter life. Amazon (US)Or if you are in the UK, then Amazon UK. Hope that helps, although I don't know if Western Digital's claim is correct (you may wish to phone Apple to find out).
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