Macbook Pro 2.16 (late 2006) and Seagate Momentus XT 320gb. Does it work?

I would like to upgrade my macbook pro 2.16 C2D (late 2006) with a new hard drive like the Seagate Momentus Xt SSD Hybrid 320gb.
Somebody told me that the hard drive is not compatible with my mac as it supports just 160 GB 5400 RPM or 200 GB 4200 RPM hard drives.
Can anybody tell me if it is true or not? If yes any suggestion of HD?
I already placed the max of ram (3gb, unfortunately) and the hard drive represent the last chance to have a speed boost before a new purchase
Many thanks.

Welcome to Apple Discussions!
As far as I know, there is no intrinsic limitation on the size of the hard drive you can install other than possibly the 9.5 mm height requirement. WD and some others have a 1 TB hard drive which is 12.5 mm tall, and it will only fit in a 17" pre-unibody Mac. The old G3 processor has a limit of 128 GB as I recall, but as far as I know there are no capacity limits on G4 processors or anything since.
If Apple replaces the drive, they will only replace a drive with one that could have originally shipped with it, which would be a 120 GB, a 160 GB, or a 200 GB 4200 RPM drive for the 2.16 C2D. So they would not be willing to install anything larger. This may be where someone got the idea that you couldn't install anything else.
However, there is no reason why you can't.
I recently replaced my original 250 GB 4200 RPM drive with a 500 GB 7200 RPM WD Scorpio Black, and it's working just fine. I see no reason why you couldn't replace your drive with a 320 GB or even a 500 GB Seagate hybrid. I've only heard good things about this drive and know of no reason why it wouldn't work.
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