Replacing Drive with a 500 gig 5400 RMP Drive

I have a 2008 macbook pro with a 200 gig drive. I would like to replace it with a 500 gig 5400 RMP drive.
Q: Does anyone have any favorites that:
1 - fit inside correctly (some models are the wrong size)
2 -DOES NOT have any of the recent drive firmware issues like:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=9815826&#9815826
choices : Hitachi - Western digital - toshiba - samsung - seagate(? problems)

revDAVE:
As far as I can tell the clicking issue is intermittent. If you get one that clicks, you can it exchanged under warranty.
The heat issue in 7200 rpm drives is a question people ask before they install a 7200 rpm HDD. (Incidentally, this question was raised about 5400 rpm drives when going from 4200 rpm drives.) I am not aware of any evidence that the 7200 rpm HDD is significantly hotter than 5400 rpm drives, and, as you may know, the perception of heat is often relative to the user. In any case, I would not worry about a heat issue with a 7200 rpm HDD.
As to which brand to buy, that is a tough call. Be sure that you buy a drive that does not have GForce that will interfere with the MBP's SMS system. Hitachi is usually a safe bet. Seagate makes excellent drives, but some people have complained about issues with the 500 GB HDD. Remember that whatever brand you buy there is a possibility that your drive may be defective. In the final analysis it's your decision.
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I have one week old MBP r with a 500 gig ssd. I looked at my storage and im using 147gig for back up. I've backed up onto a time capsule. So what is this 147gig of backups and how do i delete it?

This is my first Mac, and i was just browsing around when i went into storage and i saw i was using 43.97 gigs for audio, 44.72 gigs for movies, 7.96 gigs for photos, 5.4 gigs for apps, 147.16 gigs for backups and 70.81 gigs for other.
I've backed up onto a time capsule that i also recently bought. So i would like to know what constitues the "Backups" on my hard drive and how do I delete it to free up more space

FreeAgent GoFlex 500 Gig external hard drive not allowing me to write to it

I had to get a pc for work (trust me i hate it too but i wasn't given much choice unless i wanted to pay for a macbook out of pocket then buy windows) but anyways, when I got the computer it came with a 500 gig external hard drive which says its formatted for "Windows NT File System (NTFS)" and its permissions are read only. I went into disk utility and it didn't give me the option to change the permission. I want to use this hard drive to transfer information from my imac (i .e. music, movies, pictures, documents etc...) and then after that use it as a go between storage device. One I can use to back up both computers, if thats possible.
The drive is fresh out of the box and only has its stock preloaded programs on it, all I've done so far is plug it in to start transferring my entertainment stuff so business trips are more bearable.

Check the format on the EHD, my guess is it's formatted as NTFS. This format by default allows OS X to read but not write to it, therefore it's operating correctly right now. However you can easily fix the "write problem" by downloading and installing NTFS-3G. Here is a link to that download:
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/24481/ntfs-3g
Roger

-refurbished iMac has a 20GB partition for Boot Vamp with FAT format. I want to remove this and replace it with a much bigger format with NTFS formats?

My (new to me) Apple refurbished iMac has a 1TB hard drive. Running OS 10.6.7 Snow Leopard. When I tried to install a Boot Camp partition, prior to installling Windows 7- 64 bit, I discovered that the machine had a 20 GB Boot Camp partition, too small for what I need. HOw do I remove the 20 GB partition, and replace it with a 500 GB partition?

I have a number of PC and Mac Pro running Windows Pro, and the OS only needs 80GB partition, plus whatever data etc.
New but used does not sound like Apple Store (refurbished) Specials which would be a 'virgin' OS.
I would reformat and do your own clean install.
There may be something wrong and why it was left that way for one thing. May be a problem with the partition table.
Boot from OS X DVD and you can usually try Disk Utility to "-" remove and then repair and get back, and you of course normally should be able to just use Boot Camp Assistant which is one of its functions - not just to create partition.
For normal resizing, or creating the free space you need has to be in one contiguous chunk and not be fragmented, which is hard to imagine that 500GB is going to be intact.
And whatever you do, rule #1 in the pdf guide: backup before beginning.
http://www.apple.com/support/bootcamp

Just bought a 2tb external hard drive with the intention of moving my iPhoto data files on it. I have so much of my 500 gigs being used up by images and video. Questions: Will this foul up my iPhoto app? Do I need to point iPhoto to this new location?

Just bought a 2tb external hard drive with the intention of moving my iPhoto data files to it. I have so much of my 500 gigs being used up by images and video. Questions: Will this foul up my iPhoto app?
Do I need to point iPhoto to this new location?
Thanks!

Are you running a Managed or a Referenced Library?
A Managed Library, is the default setting, and iPhoto copies files into the iPhoto Library when Importing. The files are then stored in the Library package
A Referenced Library is when iPhoto is NOT copying the files into the iPhoto Library when importing because you made a change at iPhoto -> Preferences -> Advanced. (You unchecked the option to copy files into the Library on import) The files are then stored where ever you put them and not in the Library package. In this scenario you are responsible for the File Management.
Assuming a Managed Library:
Make sure the drive is formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
1. Quit iPhoto
2. Copy the iPhoto Library from your Pictures Folder to the External Disk.
3. Hold down the option (or alt) key while launching iPhoto. From the resulting menu select 'Choose Library' and navigate to the new location. From that point on this will be the default location of your library.
4. Test the library and when you're sure all is well, trash the one on your internal HD to free up space.
Regards
TD

I have a 500 gig time capsule. I have used with a Macbook. The Macbook has a 500 gig hard drive which is about 3/4 full. Now we just purchased a new MacBook pro with a 1 TB hard drive. Do I need to buy a larger Time Capsule?

I have a 500 gig time capsule. I have used with a Macbook. The Macbook has a 500 gig hard drive which is about 3/4 full. Now we just purchased a new MacBook pro with a 1 TB hard drive. Do I need to buy a larger Time Capsule?

Do I need to buy a larger Time Capsule?
Probably yes. You might be able to get the full backup of the new MacBook Pro on the Time Capsule, but it will not be long before the Time Capsule is out of space.
Better to add a new Time Capsule and backup the new MacBook Pro to the new Time Capsule, and keep the old MacBook backing up to the old Time Capsule.
If you do not want to add a new Time Capsule, another option would be to erase the Time Capsule disk and start over again with new backups of both Macs and move forward.

Airport Extreme and 500 Gig drive

I have 27 MacBook's in a mobile lab connected to a brand new Airport Extreme. The Airport Extreme serves up a 500 Gig drive that (during my tests) I can connect to flawlessly.
My laptops all have the user, "Student." In the dock on the Student account, I have a folder that is located on the AP Extreme hard drive that I want my students to access.
During my instruction to the students, I had them all click the folder in their docks so they could see the contents of said folder. There's only 6 sub folders, so it's not like a heavy load showing previews or anything.
20 computers connected to the disk successfully (there's no password to see the contents) and 7 didn't. The 7 that didn't asked for a password to the disk when there isn't one.
So I took one of the non-working computers from a student and tried to open a file in MS Word. I clicked on the base station in the list of available servers (on the left side of the open sheet). A message popped up on the screen that said I'd reached the maximum number of clients that can access that resource. ...so I opened up the Airport Utility and counted the computers connected to the base station. 27.
I've looked high and low for documentation from Apple that states that only 20 computers can use the "Air Disk" simultaneously. All of their documents say that 50 devices can connect to the base station wirelessly. Nothing about a lesser number connecting to the hard drive.
I really want to have made a mistake somewhere in my setup. Though it seems to be idiot proof.
Can anyone confirm or deny my findings? Or can someone point out some documentation that specifically says otherwise? And if so, how do I make this work?!
My intention was to keep the storage mobile with the lab and not have to put it on my server as the wired network is already substantially loaded down with other stuff. If I have to move it to my server, then that means quite a bit of work re-setting up all the laptops. It'd also chap my hide as the Airport Extreme advertises that it can handle 50.
Help!
-Graham
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I did install the disk utility. How do I go about using the disk utility to set up the Hard Drive?
AirPort: How to mount an AirPort Extreme USB hard disk volume in Mac OS X and Windows
Should I install Bonjour for Windows? If so, where can I get it?
Only if you want to access a shared USB printer connected to the AirPort. You can get it here: Bonjour for Windows 1.0.4
Not sure what the drive is formatted in.
The AirPort Extreme (802.11n) supports USB storage devices that have a block size of 512 bytes, and are formatted as Mac OS Extended (HFS-plus), FAT16, or FAT32. It will NOT work with NTFS-formatted volumes.
(ref: AirPort Extreme (802.11n): USB storage device supported formats and protocols

Can I use a MY Book Pro external 500 gig Triple interface HD with FCE?

Hey everyone,
I just recently bought a Macbook pro and purchased FCE HD 3.5. I want to purchase a high capacity external HD. I want it mainly for my projects with FCE and other members of the family will be backing up to it. I want to keep my projects on the external and work on them from there not my main HD.
After doing some online research I was about to purchase the LaCie Big Disk Extreme. However there seemed to be a lot of bad reviews about early disk failures. The G Technology drives sound great but are a little pricey.
I came across the MY Book Pro addition 500 gig Triple interface HD from Western Digital and found that the 500 gig pro had similar spec to the LaCie but they never mention in the specs that it can be used for video editing. They only mention "Fast enough for video editing" in the 1TB raid 0 version. I'm just wondering if anyone is having success using the My Book Pro Edition. I checked the forums first and even check specs from apple on external drives and FCE but I was hope for some real use advise. I'm not trying to cheap out, I'm just trying not to buy a lemon & get the most storage and speed for my buck. I'll buy they higher end if I should. My video productions right now are 10 minute long movies with some video clips and stills but I'm hoping to advance to bigger (High Def) things. Any advise in this matter would be greatly appreciated.
The specs from Western Digital are as follows:
My Book™ Pro Edition™
External Hard Drives
500 GB, Triple Interface
Rotational Speed
7,200 RPM (nominal)
Average Latency
4.20 ms (nominal)
Seek Times
Read Seek Time
8.9 ms
Track-To-Track Seek Time
2.0 ms (average)
Serial Transfer Rate
FireWire 800
Serial Bus Transfer Rate (1394b)
800 Mbits/s (Max)
Macbook Pro 17" 2.33GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Mac OS X (10.4.8)

The 500GB MyBook Pro should work fine. Just be sure to use a Firewire connection (not USB) to your Mac and format the drive as Mac OS Extended - Journaled. It will come from the factory as FAT32, so you'll need to reformat it. But wait - don't reformat it until you offload the ButtonManager, FW Driver and Retrospect software. You will need the first two to install your drive.
And that's one of the reasons I stay away from the MyBook drives - they were really designed for Windows systems, not Macs. For one, they have their own FireWire drivers and I see no reason to be required to install device-specific drivers on my Mac in order to use a consumer-grade hard drive. As far as I'm concerned, that's just bad design (or, perhaps design for systems other than Macs ...).
The 500GB Lacie Big Disk did get a bunch of bad reviews. However, the 500GB Lacie d2 Extreme is the same price and has much better reviews. The Lacie d2 Extreme drives are quite reliable; I have many and not one of them has failed me over the years. The 320GB d2 Extreme is currently $140 at newegg.com. See how that compares to the price of the MyBook.

Hi everyone I have a macbook pro mid 2010 17'' 2.66 i7 looking to put a new hard drive in it something like a 250 gb , orig drive 500 gb 5400 toshiba but i don;t really need that much space so i would like some input, type,speed,brand,compatibly,noise

I have a macbook pro mid 2010 17'' 2.66 i7 looking to put a new hard drive in it something like a 250 gb , orig drive 500 gb 5400 toshiba but i don;t really need that much space so i would like some input, type,speed,brand,compatibly,noise Thank You!!

There's no reason to install a smaller hard drive. In some cases, it may decrease performance.
Your MacBook Pro comes with a 5400 rpm hard drive, so what you can do is to install a smaller, 7200 rpm hard drive, so you will get a better performance. Any 2'5" SATA hard drive will work, but you can have a look at OWC for hard drives > http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/hard-drives/2.5-Notebook/
HGST and Seagate hard drives have a good reputation, so you can purchase one of them

Time machine too big : wants 1000 gb to back up my 500 gig drive

I have tried to find this on the forums. but I am SOL.
I use the internal 500 gig drive on my iMac, most current OS for all my work. We have two user accounts. I bought an external LaCie 500 gig drive to use as my time machine backup drive.
It wants 1,019 GB to make an initial backup, and only 465 is available. On my internal drive, I only have 191 gig used, with 273 available.
What is going on?
Also, does Time machine automatically back up both users or do I have to go to the other account and set it up as well?
We have a hurricane coming here in a few days and I would like to have this backup working....

HI!
Thank you for that thought. I have a second external HD which is not attached, it just contains my backups from OS 10.4 (I know I am a slow adopter, but I really hate fixing bugs like the one I am in now). So, that can not be the reason.
Still a mystery as to why it wants more than a TB of space. I do not think there is a drive that big on the market!

500 gig drive only 465 gig. Is this normal?

Hi all,
whilst I realize that the amount of space you actually get on a drive is less than it is meant to be, how much is acceptable? Actually, it always made me wonder why the available size is not reported accurately, isn't it contravening consumer rights to say one thing and give another???
Maybe I could go into the Apple store to buy a $2,000 iMac, with an envelope stuffed with cash, and the amount of $2,000 written on the front, but with only $1,850 actually inside. Isn't it the same? Would they give me the $2,000 machine? That aside, here is my issue.
I have a MBP with a 200 gig drive - actual space available = 185.99 gig. So, I lose 14 gig.
But the iMac that I took delivery of today has only 465 gig available on the 500 gig drive. So the loss is 35 gig, and that seems like a lot to me.
Anyone have any thoughts on this?
Thanks.
Hugh
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Hi Hugh,
Hugh Anderson1 wrote:
Yes, I just noticed that the ratio of "lost" space is the same from my examples. Why don't they just tell you that though?
Thanks for the input.
Hugh
Just to clarify further the responses you have already received. In brief, when you see HD capacity advertised as 60GB, 80GB, 100GB etc, that's the marketing way where they take "decimal" road and base 1GB as being equal to 1,000,000,000 bytes. This is true for all HD manufacturers and computer manufacturers.
Once upon a time, computer professionals noticed that 1,024 bytes (binary) was very nearly equal to 1,000 (decimal) and started using the prefix "kilo" to mean 1,024. That worked well enough for a decade or two because everybody who talked kilobytes knew that the term implied 1,024 bytes. But, almost overnight a much more numerous "everybody" bought computers, and the trade computer professionals needed to talk to physicists and engineers and even to ordinary people, most of whom know that a kilometer is 1,000 meters and a kilogram is 1,000 grams.
Often when two or more people begin discussing storage capacity, some will refer to binary values and others will refer to decimal values without making distinction between the two. This has caused much confusion in the past (and still does). In an effort to dispatch this confusion, all major disc drive manufacturers use decimal values when discussing storage capacity.
Some simple arithmetic will convert the advertised (decimal) capacity to the actual (binary) capacity:
1KB = 1,024 bytes
1MB = 1,024 x 1,024 bytes = 1,048,576 bytes
1GB = 1,024 x 1,024 x 1,024 bytes = 1,073,741,824 bytes
Therefore, in your specific case:
500GB (decimal) = 500 ÷ 1.073741824 = 465.66128730774 GB (binary or actual capacity)
Rounded off to two decimal points = 465.66 GB
I hope this clarifies it for you and explains the reasons for the discrepancy.
Kryten

I have a MacBook Pro 15.4" 2.53GHz Core 2 Duo (A1286) - Mid 2009 MC118LL/A and I think the MATSHITA DVD-R UJ-868 is going out. Should I replace it with the exact same drive or is there a better one that is compatible?

I have a MacBook Pro 15.4" 2.53GHz Core 2 Duo (A1286) - Mid 2009 MC118LL/A and I think the MATSHITA DVD-R UJ-868 is going out. Should I replace it with the exact same drive or is there a better one that is compatible?

I went to my local Apple store last weekend with a similar issue on my 2007 C2D MBP and they quoted me a price of around £60 (excluding VAT) to replace the optical drive. That's about the same price as the external optical drive a bought for my RMBP.
Alternatively you could just buy a 3rd party external drive if you want to save cash but note that the external Apple superdrive is not compatible with MacBooks with built in optical drives.

My Macbook Pro was stolen, and I have replaced it with a Macbook Air. New hard drive is too small for a Time Machine restore. How do I restore my more-expensive apps (ie iWorks) on my new Macbook without repurchasing them?

My Macbook Pro was recently stolen, and I have replaced it with a Macbook Air. I attempted to simply do a restore from the Macbook Pro's Time Machine backup, but since the new Macbook Air's hard drive is significantly smaller, a Time Machine restore was not possible. I even tried to choose only settings or only my User Profile (option) when restoring, but the backup was still too large to do a restore onto the new machine. How do I restore my more-expensive apps (ie iWorks) onto my new Macbook without repurchasing them? Also, I reaad somewhere that if you went to the Mac App Store and attempted to repurchase the app and clicked BUY, it would simply alert you that you have already purchased the app (and trigger a re-download)... NOT THE CASE... So I just dropped another $19.99 for a second copy of Pages... Not my intention....
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
LM

you should get a usb backup drive as well. time machine has limited use in my eyes. it saves things. but older things can be errased ad space drops without telling you
nothing beats data redundancy. 2 saves is. 1. and 1 is none
im personally not fond of time machne though i use it only for a recovery parameter for a mac
id never ever myself consider time machine a genuine data backup tool. though most do consider it as such
drive clones such as superduper and carbon copy cloner can clone your entire drive for emergency recovery. and you can boot from them as well o. another mac

Hard drive crashed on my MacBook pro and had to replace drive and logic board. When I connect my iPhone and try to sync I get a dialog box stating iPhone is synced with another iTunes library, erase and sync? How do I sync with iTunes without erasing?

Hard drive crashed and had to replace drive and logic board on my MacBook pro. After Install tried to sync with my iPhone and a dialog box pops up stating "this iPhone synced with another iTunes library, erase and sync?". I checked the manually manage music and videos box because I don't want all my wife's pics and music on my iPhone. How do I Sync without erasing what I have on my iPhone???

columbus new boy wrote:
How crap is that?
It's not crap at all.
It's not that simple. For example, I've 3500 songs on my MacBook but don't want them all on my phone, so I have to manually select each song again???
There has to be a solution.
Why not simply make a playlist with the songs you want on the iPhone?
and maintain a current backup of your computer.

Mac Pro 3,1 - did my hard drive die? And what should I replace it with?

Hi,
I inherited my late husband's 2008 Mac Pro (3,1 model) which had 2 x 500GB hard drives in it and 6GB of RAM. I filled the remaining hard drive bays with 1TB drives (I take a lot of video so needed the extra space). The boot drive was partitioned 50/50 in Boot Camp. I've upgraded the RAM to 10GB and I am currently running Lion.
Today, while doing something as innocuous as scrolling down a web page, the bottom half of my screen went black and the top half began flashing wildly. When it stopped after several seconds, the mouse would not respond and I could not click on anything. If flashed a bit more, and then I had mouse control back but could not click on anything - web links, applications, finder. After waiting patiently but getting nowhere, I powered the machine down manually, and when I re-started it, it failed to boot. The chime sounded, the apple appeared, and the little revolving wheel, but at the point where the screen would normally go blue then display the desktop, it just went white. The fans spin, but otherwise it's very silent.
I tested with a second display, got the same issue. I tried booting to recovery mode but it went back to the white screen. I could start in target mode, and there were no issues with flickering screen, so I don't think it's the graphics card. Then I tried browsing to the hard drive over the network, but it wasn't showing on the PC network page, nor could I connect to it via the home theater system, which I can normally do as the streaming app launches on start-up. I am assuming this means the drive has failed? It's the original, and we bought the machine when they were new to the market, so is a good 5 years old. It contains not only the boot drive but my documents, photos, websites, selected videos, all of which are backed up on the Time Capsule, and I was in the process of uploading to cloud backup as well (although not very far along, due to data cap and slow international upload speeds). I had no warning it was about to do this, but then I guess sometimes you don't!
Assuming I need to replace the drive, would it be worth replacing it with an OWC Mercury Electra 480GB SSD in an Icy Dock sled? Or would that be overkill for such an old machine? Would getting a standard 7200 WD Caviar HDD or similar give me enough of a speed boost? Obviously I am rather enamoured with the idea of a blazing fast SSD but I'd have to import it (not available locally) so I don't want to shell out all that money unless it's really going to make a massive difference.
Is there anything else I would need to know about using an SSD over a HDD? I assume I would fire it up the normal way - install it, boot from my Snow Leopard install disc (I downloaded Lion from the App Store) format it, clean install SL, then re-update to Lion, then restore my Time Machine backup? Am I likely to experience any weird issues due to it being an SSD? I see talk online of firmware problems and something called TRIM that I don't know anything about. If it's most likely that I can install it and rock on as normal, then I'm pretty keen, but if there's a reasonable probability of it being temperamental, I probably wouldn't be willing to deal with that (and therefore go the HDD route instead). Therefore I am very keen to hear people's opinions and experiences.
Sorry for the terribly long ramble. The more I have researched this, the more questions it raises! All advice gratefully accepted. Thanks!

more than likely it is your video card. If it is ATI 2600XT, tell it bye-bye. The card is barely used at all in TDM or Safe Boot Mode. The 2600 and Lion and the issues with that card, even if it seems okay, is not.
Depending on Windows OS as to how it mounts and sees your Lion HFSX (there is a nice HFSX driver from Paragon, and an NTFS driver for Lion too)
480GB SSD is overkill for any system unless you are pushing CS6 2-3GB images and then for scratch. All you need for a boot drive is about 100GB.
If you have an SSD now, then 1) you need to do a full image backup and restore (regularly as maintenance), and 2) TRIM Enabler
Save Lion and you can always do a clean Lion install w/o going back to SL - but you might want to keep SL (dual boot) and handy if you run into anything you still need that required PowerPC/Rosetta
FBDIMM RAM dies, Amazon has $32 kits of 4GB. And having all 8 DIMM slots filled improves things. If you need or want to and feel 16GB isn't overkill.
SSD and issues are always possible. you should not just go along. not without a clone image. And you should have another drive w/ TRIM Enabler so that you can do a repair and "trim" what is needed.
Clone a system with CCC regularly. Bootable. And can also be used by Setup Assistant.
Install Lion over a heavily used SL system and there are likely remnants of old things that get in the way and left in there and not removed.

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