Upgrading MacBook with 160GB Hard Disk?

I would like to upgrade my MacBook with one of the newer 160 GB hard disks. It is a pity that Apple does not offer a 160GB hard disk as an option to the MacBook.
Has anyone upgraded to a 160 GB hard disk? Is it hard to do the upgrade? What brand of hard disk did you use?
Rob

Check the hard drive compatibility reports on http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/
I like the Seagate and Western Digital drives the best.

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Upgrading 160GB hard disk to 320GB or 500gb

hi guys,
I'm using a macbook pro 17" late 2008 ( model name: MacBookPro3,1) with a stock hard disk of 160GB.
I was just wondering whether I could upgrade to a 320GB or probably a 500GB hd.
But would the motherboard support a bigger hd space?
Thanks guys.

I installed a Western Digital 320GB 7200RPM in my MacBookPro but it vibrated the laptop too much so i went out and bought Western Digital 500GB 5400RPM and that works smoothly with no problems.

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The process of installing the drive was simple. Thank you Apple (seriously). The new drive booted right up and the system is as zippy as ever ... but you knew it was coming:
The new 7200 rpm drive ran smoothly and absolutely silently in the external enclosure when I was backing up the old HD. Once installed, I immediately noticed a new vibration. Nothing huge, but it's there when now it wasn't on the OEM drive. The whole MacBook vibrates, stem to stern. The drive also seems hotter under my palm. Seeing all manor of these "VIBRATION" issues on other posts, I would suggest that anyone upgrading to a new drive, install the HD first to ***** the level of vibration before going to the lengthy duplicating process. It also seems to spin constantly, which the 5400 may well have done too but was otherwise unnoticeable.
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Doug, I appreciate your input, however re-installing OSX is exactly what I DON'T want to do. Not only would it take an extended amount of time to update from 10.4.6 to 10.4.10 but importing files from the old hard disk comes nowhere near copying over every modification I've made to my system. The idea here, as I would think with anyone upgrading their hard drive with a perfectly working system, is to increase disk space and just keep right on going without missing a step. WIth all due respect your suggestion is absolutely the wrong advice in this situation. The last time I took such advice, I found myself missing many of the system helper applications allowing me to access hardware and software and all of it had to be reinstalled as I discovered things were no longer working as they should have. I DO NOT recommend re-installing OS X to anyone wishing to upgrade their drive, unless you are having problems with your system or just want to clean house. Apple should understand this. The bug thing on the install disk is just one of the many headaches involved in this process. My understanding was that I cannot make a disk image from the install disk was well as being unable to restore. However, if that's possible, then I could have done what I wanted without using a third party "shareware" solution. I will check it out and report back. Call me paranoid, but I would prefer to keep my data backup in the hands of those who formatted it originally, i.e. Apple. I would happily use a proven commercial utility, but for something as routine as upgrading my hard disk, I shouldn't have to pay to do it. Time was, if Apple had a bug in their startup utility disk, they would have corrected the error and sent a replacement to all registered users. Time was.

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