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@leontt9 every 2,5″ drive SATA, so if your ssd fits thisn there will be no problem, cheers

Hey! I have a mid 2009 macbook. Will I b able to install SSD? by da way nice vid!

no u dont

thanx alot.

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Macbooks take 2.5″ drives, I think up to 7,200rpm. The latest ones (at least 2007 onwards) use SATA drives. There is a lot of documentation about this on the net.

is it possible to use any drive with a macbook? ie just any that you can use normally with a tower pc

Its definetely much easier than on my MSI Wind U100!

how was it over use of brackets and screws. There were 3 screws and one bracket and the hard drive comes out. Typical PC user too retarded to notice anything

typical mac over use of brackets and screws.
a pc lap top 4 screws out it comes no brackets or cap pc all the way

Did you have any issues wih static discharge with the new hard drive?

Amazon are selling Western Digital Scorpio Blue 500gb hard drives for £58. Get a hard drive caddy (ebay, amazon, ebuyer etc), insert your old hard drive into it and then you’ve got a portable hard drive with all your data on it that you can transfer across. You should always have a backup of your data though…

Thank you so much for this video. I fried our hard drive and the warranty was out and we didn’t have the Care Plan, so I had to go it on my own. Your vid saved the day!!

i got a 320GB from amazon for only £40!

The easiest way to transfer files is to turn your existing hard drive into an external drive via an enclosure. You may then use the time machine software to restore your system from the external drive.

Great video. My Macbook is quickly running out of memory and I am thinking of getting a new hard drive. I found one from ebay that is 500GB from china. Its only £75 so i think i will buy it. Do you think it will work and be good? And once you change your hard drive, how do you get all of your files and music and everything to your new hard drive?
thanks alot

I haven’t tried that particular drive but it should be compatible with your Macbook.

Hi there…nice video!, can i ask you if Western digital hard drive WD Scorpio Blue
Mobile Hard Drives 320 GB, SATA 3 Gb/s, 8 MB Cache, 5400 RPM compatible with my Macbook white 2.16 ghz. Thanks…

The type of drive you would need is a 2.5″ SATA hard drive. Western Digital, Seagate, Samsung, and Toshiba all make very reliable drives and they would all fit into your macbook.

Then you would contact apple care and or the manufacture of the drive for tech support and possibly a replacement drive. The drive should be able to be recognized even in its raw, unformatted state.

any recommendations on the kind, brand or type of hard drive that will fit my white macbook?

wat if it doesnt read it

Thanks so much for this. Video tutorials are awesome.

NO, not exactly, you WILL have to reinstall all your software including the OS onto the new hard drive, but the original information will STILL be on the ORIGINAL harddrive.