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Guys,
Recently I bought a hard drive to upgrade my Dell Latitude D820 notebook, now I am thinking instead of upgrading my Dell Latitude I should upgrade my Macbook pro!
My question to you guys is, can I use the hard drive I bought for my dell system in Mac book pro? I have 17" MacBook Pro 2.4GHz Core2Duo.
my HD’s spec is as follows:
Performance Specifications
Rotational Speed 7,200 RPM (nominal)
Buffer Size 16 MB
Average Latency 5.50 ms (nominal)
Seek Times Read Seek Time 12.0 ms Track-To-Track Seek Time 2.0 ms (average)
Transfer Rates Buffer To Host (Serial ATA) 3 Gb/s (Max)
Physical Specifications
Formatted Capacity 250,059 MB
Capacity 250 GB
Interface SATA 3 Gb/s
Physical Dimensions
English
Height 0.374 Inches
Length 3.94 Inches
Width 2.75 inches
Weight 0.22 Pounds
Metric Height 9.5 mm Length 100 mm Width 69.85 mm Weight 99 gm
Environmental Specifications
Acoustics
Idle Mode 22 dBA (average)
Seek Mode 0 25 dBA (average)
Temperature (English) Operating 32° F to 140° F Non-operating -40° F to 158° F
Temperature (Metric) Operating -0° C to 60° C Non-operating -40° C to 70° C
Humidity Operating 8% to 95% Non-condensing Non-operating 5-95% RH non-condensing
Altitude (English) Operating -1,000 feet to 10,000 feet Non-operating -1,000 feet to 40,000 feet
Altitude (Metric) Operating -305M to 3,050M Non-operating -305M to 12,200M
Vibration Operating 0.00459 g²/Hz (10 to 500 Hz) Non-operating 0.05102 g²/Hz (10 to 500 Hz)
Electrical Specifications
Current Requirements
5 VDC
Read/Write 500 mA
Idle 400 mA
Standby 50 mA
Sleep 30 mA
Power Dissipation
Read/Write 2.50 Watts
Idle 0.85 Watts
Standby 0.25 Watts
Sleep 0.15 Watts
Yes, providing it is the same type, (2.5." SATA). If the hard drive has Windows on it you will have to wipe it and install Mac OS X first. The hard drive must have enough space to hold Mac OS X. You should clone your existing hard drive onto the other one so you can swap it and still have your OS, files and settings.
as long as its a 2.5" SATA drive, you are good to go.
Along what QEII student said, make sure to reformat it. It’s also a good idea to just clone your drive from the one already in the MBP, that makes not only the transition easier, but saves you the step of installing Mac OS X. I suggest either Super Duper or Carbon Copy Cloner, both are excellent (free i believe) tools for cloning drives
Yes, all you need is to completely format it first. I strongly advise that you do full format during the installation process. With this, the system would format and scan the drive for errors.
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