RAIDed w530, drive replacement options (SSD)

New here,
I just ordered a w530 factory configured with RAID.
Does anyone know what height the 500GB 7200 RPM drives are?
Thanks!

on the ThinkPad W530, the 500 gigs 7200 RPM drive is 9.5 mm thick.
Regards,
Jin Li
May this year, be the year of 'DO'!
I am a volunteer, and not a paid staff of Lenovo or Microsoft

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Hard Disk Drive Replacement Options

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I have a 2009 MacBook Pro. Recently it started acting funny and a friend suggested it might be the hard drive. I got a copy of Scannerz to check the drive and about 10 minutes into the scan it started finding problems. I ran Scannerz in diag mode to confirm it wasn't the SATA cable, and it passed that with flying colors. I need a new hard drive.
Here's my dilemma: I'm on a budget. The most I can afford is between $125 to $150 to replace the hard drive. The question is, can I get a decent SSD for this much money?
Before I continue, I should state that I use a dual boot system. I still have a 100GB partition with Snow Leopard on it because I have some old applications that are older PPC applications. They're rarely used, but they do get used a few times a year. The rest of the drive is Mavericks.
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1. Get an SSD that I can split so that I have 2 partitions again. It would need to be at least 256GB, and that's probably pushing it, probably more like 350GB is what I'd like.
2. Just get a hard drive. I've read on here that some of the Hitachi drives are fast for old mechanical drives and they're cheap too. I'd have money left over.
3. Create a Fusion drive with a smallish SSD and a hard drive. Setting it up using an article I read about in CNET doesn't look that hard, but the idea of taking out the optical drive and putting some type of adapter in there to hold either an SSD or HDD just seems a little risky. Also, isn't the speed of the optical drive slower than those of drives? Do I need a new cable if I consider doing this?
4. The Scannerz tech support people said I might want to get a new SATA cable anyway. Any idea why they would say that? They don't sell parts so that obviously wasn't the motivation.
When answering, please keep costs in mind. The total I'm will to spend, absolute max, is $150.
Thank you.

I found the following immediately available locally:
HDD: Hitachi 500GB 7,200 RPM SATA III 6Gb/s 2.5" Hard Drive 0S03788 for $53
SSD: Silicon Power S60 120GB Sata III 6Gb/s 2.5" Internal SSD SP120GBSS3S60S25 for $55
SSD: Kingston V300 120GB SATA III 6Gb/s 2.5" SSD for $60
SSD: SanDisk 128GB SATA III 6Gb/s 2.5"SSD SDSSDP-128G-G25 for $65
SSD: Samsung 850 EVO 120GB SATA III 6Gb/s 2.5" SSD MZ-75E120B/AM for $70
SSD: OCZ 100 Series 120GB SATA III 6Gb/s 2.5" SSD ARC100-25SAT3-120G for $65
There are others available, lots actually, but that's what I'm narrowing it down to. I see what one said when saying to check the specs. The Hitachi HDD above clearly states it uses AF format with 512e sectors, but the store also has a 5400RPM unit with a much smaller cache, which I'm assuming is the old one, for just a few dollars less. As you can guess there are a lot more HDDs available at the store but Hitachi seems to have a good reputation and that price is hard to beat.
Now, for SSDs, I get the impression Samsung is well thought of. It seems Apple is putting SanDisk SSDs in some of the MacBook Air's so my assumption is it's a good brand too. OCZ I've read some bad things about. Kingston I'm familiar with from memory sticks but I have no idea how good there SSDs are. There seem to be few people commenting on them. I've never heard of Silicon Power.
Do the prices above look good, or are they too high? Any comments on quality?
RIght now I'm pretty convinced I'm going to go with a dual setup with an SSD to hold the OS then use the HDD as a data drive and to also hold the Snow Leopard partition. This would give me all the space I need.
Another idea is to make a Fusion Drive and leave a part ion on the HDD alone for Snow Leopard. Any comments on this idea?
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Installing Windows 8.1 on early 2011 Macbook Pro (optical drive replaced by SSD)

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I recently replaced my HDD with an SSD and the Superdrive with the old HDD. Is there any possibility to install Windows 8.1 with help of an external Superdrive or a bootable USB stick without removing HDD/SSD again?! Would be great!
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okay, thanks!
but I guess the bigger problem will be that the internal Superdrive is replaced and that there is not support for installing windows from an external optical drive if you had an internal drive before. Or am I false!?
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Will the following hard drive properly replace my WD5000BEVT-60A0RT0 500GB inside of my HP Pavilion g7-1070us :
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My computer is exactly one year old as of the beginning of May 2012; therefore, the existing hard drive should be fine for a long while. The faster rpm seems a choice replacement for any slight addition to its speed, although I fully realize that current consumption and other operating parameters are factors that have to be more professionally considered by someone more qualified than me about hard drive technology. The link above includes specs and other information including an interesting comparison's pdf link towards the bottom of the webpage.
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Hi, Mark:
You are correct.
You only need to purchase the bare drive, and strip (reuse) all of the existing hardware (screws, caddy, interface connector to the motherboard (if applicable)) from the current HDD.
Below is the link to the service manual for your notebook which may come in handy when you want to replace your HDD.
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http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c02834058.pdf
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Xserve SSD OS drive Raid 5 array - What if SSD OS drive is corrupt or fails

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If you're asking can OSX Server be reinstalled without a reformat the answer would be no. This assumes you're using the OSX Server Installer DVD. Assuming no other hardware issues you should be able to access any/all data on any of the Drives using Target Disk Mode and another mac. This will at least allow a transfer of important data to another source. Having said that you should be keeping back-ups anyway.
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Replacing W701 SSD primary drive

It's 3 and a half years old but there were problems with it since it was about 8 months old. It has finally gotten to the point where it needs to be replaced. From the Lenovo site this appears to be a drive that would work. http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/product-and-parts/detail.page?&LegacyDocID=MIGR-73173
Unfortunately it has been amazingly difficult to even find out the price of it and another drive I'm considering. It's taken about 8 phone calls so far. Out of the last 3 (after going through the menu options), 2 disconnected and the third one finally said 'I'm sorry, your call did not go through. Please try again.'
I have a preference for a Samsung drive anyway, this one: http://www.staples.ca/en/Samsung-840-PRO-256GB-25-SATA3-Internal-SSD/product_167664_2-CA_1_20001 (That one is from staples.ca in Canada, but they probably have it State side as well.)
It has a 5 year warranty compared to 90 days from Lenovo, and a decent name. The problem is that if you look at the first drive I linked to, it has thin edges, and the carriage, caddy, or holder for it looks like mine. The Samsung drive wouldn't fit it.
I've been Googling and read stories of people making duct tape (or whatever) bumpers and spacers to hold drives in place, and they have worked. I guess I'll try that as a last resort, but I wondered if anyone here had something that might work. Even if it's not a complete solution, it might spark another idea.
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I purchased a Spectre 15xt touchsmart just before Christmas. I ordered the 128 gig ssd drive upgrade because no larger ssd drive was available and the salesman assured me I could upgrade to a larger drive later. As it turns out, the upgrade to the ssd drive replaced the 32 gig boot ssd with a larger 128 ssd and just eliminated the hard drive.
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xreyuk wrote:
Thanks for the information.
I'm assuming if the fault is found with the new SSD, that's not covered?
Yes that is correct. Any issues with a 3rd party SSD need to be addressed with the manfacturer of the SSD.
What about if replacing the HDD, with the SSD, is responsible for another fault?
I'm sorry, I don't understand the wording of this question. Try asking the question in your native languge, and I will see if I can use a translation program to help me better understand what you are asking

Replacing to SSD drive

I have a late 2011 macbook pro.
I want to replace the hard drive to a SSD drive (Samsung 850EVO 500 gb).
I read this article about problems with TRIM and Yosemite and I want to know if it's true and what should and can I do.
Thanks!
Dror
http://www.macworld.com/article/2849366/mac-wont-boot-about-yosemite-and-your-th ird-party-ssd.html

You can certainly replace the drive yourself - I did that. I bought an SSD at OWC (macsales.com) and their little toolkit as well as a USB external enclosure. I also looked at their video instructions on how to do it.
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If you want, you can put the old hard drive into your enclosure and have an instantaneous backup.
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RAID options, SSD disks and others....

Hi!
This is not exactly topic for expanding my mac pro... This is more "How to expand my upcoming mac pro".
There are couple of things I'm constantly fighting. Memory and disk-speed. I absolutely hate it when I see spinning beach ball on the screen and only thing I hear is the wild hard-drive trashing ...
Now when I finally upgrade my power mac G5 to Mac Pro I'm confronted with myriad of choices:
Memory is easy - 12Gb BTO option 6x 2Gb sticks. This should satisfy all the requirements. Enough to work with. Enough sticks so it really is DDR and so on.
Hard-drives are the real pain. First of all I'd like to ask couple of questions...
a) Does OS X and disk-utily support making striped RAID-disks and use those as boot-disk? Idea was to install two fast SSD disks and stripe those. They have sufficient long MTBF so I feel confident using them striped for increased performance. Performance is blazing fast for boot-disk which directly translates into nice user-experience since boot-up is fast and opening programs is almost instant.
b) Performance characteristics on OS X disk-utily versus SoftRAID. Are there any noticeable differences? Disk-utility driver is single-threaded while SoftRAID is multi-threaded. How about creating boot-disks with SoftRAID?
c) How about using SSD drives and hardware RAID-card from apple? Any experiences with this?
At the moment I think the setup would be something like this:
4x 1Tb disk-drives with RAID-5 for mass-storage
2x SSD drives with RAID-0 for OS
Downside is that I think this would require both hardware RAID-card for RAID-5 and possibly software-RAID if hardware RAID-card doesn't recognize SSD drives. Or if I wan't to be able to boot into windows which I'm forced to do sometimes (Note! booting windows in Mac is against my beliefs!) then I'd need to leave small partition free on the SSD drive(s) and not include that in RAID-setup.
So satisfying the following is pretty hard:
- RAID-5 for 4 internal hard-drives used for mass-storage
- RAID-0 for 2 SSD-drives used for OS and applications
- Ability to dual-boot into Windows via bootcamp

a: If you make a striped RAID array (RAID0) with Disk Utility you can boot from it. I'm doing the same right now, with 2 OCZ Vertex SSD's.
c: Officially, the RAID card only supports drives Apple sells. Besides that, it would be a shame to use SSD's with the Apple RAID card, as it is slow. If you have 3 SSD's in a RAID0 setup they will be faster than the RAID card can handle (the RAID card's maximum speed is somewhere near 533MB/s, look up the exact number in the Apple Online Store).
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Also, you don't have enough connectors for 4 internal hard drives and 2 SSD's if you want to keep your optical drive.
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1TB seagate hard drive replacement - SSD instead?

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With all of this in mind, I'm half-tempted to just ignore the recall and do the SSD upgrade myself, try to fix the screen backing at the same time, what do you people think? The nearest Apple Store to me is over 100 miles away, I would have to go to a local authorised reseller / service shop. I should probably give them a call and ask a few of my questions to them, but wanted to get an idea of what you guys knew or thought too.

I'm pretty sure that Apple will not authorize any work other than replacing the 1 TB Seagate drive. You will not be able to pay extra for any additional work. Your choses are to have the drive replaced under the terms of the replacement program or pay out of pocket for the work you want to have done. I had my Seagate 1TB drive replaced on site by calling AppleCare.

Hi,I have recently replaced by hard drive with a ssd. My old hard drive has all my iTunes stuff.i would like to install only iTunes programme on the ssd with all the content on the old hard drive. How do I do it?

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How do I remove one failing hard drive from raid set and replace with new one

Last Friday apparently one of my raid drives started failing.
As I mentioned on this forum I started getting continous beeping.
I was finally able to get the raid working at a degraded level. I ordered a replacement hard drive which is arriving today.
(In the meantime I made twice daily backups of my work.....)
Below was the message I got from the browser based raid software:
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Harm,
Regarding your comment:
Re: How do I remove one failing hard drive from raid set and replace with new one
Please tell me how to read the serial number from an individual drive rather easily, without un-installing them:
If you select the proper drive to change out, you only need to remove one drive and look at its serial number...
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I heard this isn't possible is that true?
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