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Best hard drive for 2011 MacBook Pro 15?
I am about to place an order for a 15" MacBook Pro, but I need a larger drive than it comes with. I'm looking for a good 1TB drive. I believe the MacBook supports SATA 6gbps, so I'd like the drive to support that as well. Also, I heard some rumblings about issues with the motion sensor, any truth to that?
Even a 7200rpm drive won't go anywhere near towards needing a SATAIII interface. The only thing that can remotely saturate SATA*II* is an SSD.
What you could do is to use the bracket that bb4u linked to and buy two Momentus XT's. While they may not be much faster in real-life than a regular 7200rpm drive (and once again, won't go anywhere near needing even SATAII), they are apparently faster nevertheless.
What you could do is to use the bracket that bb4u linked to and buy two Momentus XT's. While they may not be much faster in real-life than a regular 7200rpm drive (and once again, won't go anywhere near needing even SATAII), they are apparently faster nevertheless.
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At this time, it appears that 1TB drives that support SATA 6gbps are not that common. On Newegg, they had one Seagate drive that met that criteria but it won't fit into a Macbook Pro. The other 1TB hard drive is from Western Digital but it is SATA 3gbps and 5400RPM although it will fit in a laptop at least.
You might want to consider replacing the internal superdrive with a hard drive instead. OWC has kits for them at eshop.macsales.com/shop/drive_bracket/datadoubler/ or there is also www.mcetech.com/optibay/ who I believe originated the idea. Both of them offer an enclosure for the superdrive so you can plug it into a USB port when you need it.
I am not sure about the motion sensor but that may be one drawback of putting a hard drive where the superdrive once was (probably no motion sensing).
You might want to consider replacing the internal superdrive with a hard drive instead. OWC has kits for them at eshop.macsales.com/shop/drive_bracket/datadoubler/ or there is also www.mcetech.com/optibay/ who I believe originated the idea. Both of them offer an enclosure for the superdrive so you can plug it into a USB port when you need it.
I am not sure about the motion sensor but that may be one drawback of putting a hard drive where the superdrive once was (probably no motion sensing).
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