Replacement Macbook Pro HDD

Can anyone tell me if this HDD will fit into my Macbook Pro 17"?
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Western-Digital-Scorpio-WD2500BEVS-internal/dp/B000VNCEP A
If it's compatible, performant and even the largest I can get?
I'm happy with opening it up and fitting the replacement drive as I'll do that when Leopard comes out as I'd be doing a new install anyway.
It's only a 5400prm disc, but would this be such an issue? It is a SATA interface drive, which I understand the MB uses. The reason I'm thinking about it is because I'm desperately running out of space on my HDD. I travel a lot, and use Aperture, so my library is quite large. I also have a lot of audio/video content on there, so really need a larger drive.

but it means lugging them around wherever I go
I too find that even a portable 2.5" version external drive a pain especially when you consider there's a perfectly acceptable internal solution. Having just upgraded to a Hitachi 200GB 7200rpm drive I can tell you the extra space is a great help. However, as Ricktotronto mentioned it can affect your warranty so it's something to take into consideration.
Yes the Western Digital Scorpio 250GB drive fits. You might contact WD though as from what I know, the anti-shock technology that they use in their Scorpio drives interferes with Apple Sudden Motion Sensor (they basically do the same thing) which can cause crashing. Some have said this is not an issue although I'd confirm this directly with WD.
Additionally, the drive check, while not particularly difficult can be rather "fiddly" so unless you are reasonably mechanically dextrous you can easily dmage something on just opening up your MBP. You will also need the right tools, like a torx 6 screwdriver, as the wrong ones will damage the screws.

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Apple have arranged to give me a replacement Macbook Pro due to faults with hardware on the one I am currently using. I will be going to pick up the replacement Macbook Pro tomorrow morning.
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I did a back up using time machine earlier today which took quite a long time and seemed to go successfully. Is this the right thing to have done to save all data from my current laptop onto the external hard drive?
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HOWEVER, if there are software issues on the Mac that also transferred to the TimeMachine drive, that will only transfer them back onto your new computer.
You can't very easily just pick out the things you want to restore from TimeMachine with, it doesn't give that fine detail of control, and if it's really messed up, it might not restore anything at all.
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The operating system and programs can all be reinstalled from fresh sources on the new machine, provided you have the AppleID and password, license codes for your programs, email passwords and any other necessary information to re-establish the license on the new machine.
(In some cases licensed software HAS NOT transferred to a new machine with a TimeMachine restore and had to be reinstalled)
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So I'd advise another hard drive with a copy of just your files, just in case a crap-up occurs
You can restore Lion yourself if it craps up, install programs from fresh sources as you know how to do, use the old license codes and then return your files manually exactly back into their same Music, Pictures, Documents, and Movies (etc, not Library) folders as before.
The key to this manual method is to make sure to use the same user name as before, so all your file location data pathnames retained by program files like iTunes to where the songs are located on the drive, are matched. Once you open these programs and restablish the links in OS X, then you can move them around.
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So use TM if you dare, but prepared to do things manually is my opinion.
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@diti wrote:
Earlier I could atleast detect the HDD, now the service guys say that they cant detect the hdd. They replaced the hd with a new one but even that is not getting detected. So they r saying that the connection between logic board and hdd is not fine.
To test if it is the connection, one can connect a known functional boot drive externally via USB and if it boots the MBP, then there is an internal connection problem. There are differences in how the SSD is mounted in a retina MBP. Look at these videos:
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http://eshop.macsales.com/installvideos/macbookpro_15_retinadisplay_mid12_unibod y_ssd_l/
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I've heard people mention DiskWarrior in the past but to be honest if I'm going to spend that sort of money I'd prefer to just put it towards an new, larger HDD, probably a 2TB model.
So there we are, thanks for reading this far. If you have any advice about another (or better) way to get my files off the MBP I'm all ears.
I've never actually done a fresh install of Mac OS before either, only upgrades downloaded from the Mac App Store so any advice around that might be handy too, but mainly it's the file copying I want help with as I'll probably just boot from the recovery partition to reformat and reinstall Mountain Lion.
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