MacBook Pro HD replacement, revisited
Friday, July 20th, 2007
Warren, Connecticut. Since starting to use Aperture I’ve been regretting my decision to not put a 7200 RPM internal HD in this computer when I fixed its then dead hard disk which broke in an accident.
I’ve been spending a lot of time in Aperture editing images and given that I can’t upgrade memory any more than the two gigs that’s currently in this computer, I figured I’d attempt to eek a bit more speed out of this box by upgrading the internal HD.
Given that I’d done it before the job was easy. Follow the above links to find out how it’s done.
Today will be the test of this as I plan to spend a few hours in Aperture but so far I’m noticing a bit of a speed bump just in the system and a few of my regular apps like Safari and Mail. No extra heat (yet) which was a fear and the entire process has been painless. Thank god for SuperDuper! which I used to clone the old internal to a backup, then copy back over the new drive once it was installed. SD worked flawlessly as it always has.
Hi Richard,
This looks like a very neat and painless install. Fingers crossed it doesn’t create the feared heat….
Speak soon,
Jon
Jon: So far so good (no excess heat).
hi, i ran out of room on my HD and have been thinking about upgrading but was having the same concerns as you about the heat problem in the mbp. so since you have had a month or so to work with the 7200 rpm how is the heat situation?
Baine: Good question and I’ve had it long enough to have a sense of it. My MacBook Pro was plenty hot on the left side before the upgrade, not much hotter after. I’d say go for it, heat isn’t a problem for me.
I should also say that what I’ve discovered was that I was running out of room on my old HD and that made the system do a lot more work and in turn, made the HD read and write more. This HD is 160 gigs which gives me more breathing room which in turn seems to help the system run better.
well thanks alot for the info, its exactly what i’ve been looking for