OMG its so Easy.Even a 12 years old can do it.Unlike a macbook white you have to open up everything

@ecuamario I watched your video and turned up the volume with a headset on and I’m not hearing anything out of the ordinary. Platter-based magnetic hard drives do make sounds when being written to (such as your history data and cookies from surfing the web), they’re not completely silent like a solid state drive.
That said, the ‘click of death’ for a hard drive is rather rhythmic and distinct similar to a baseball card in the spokes of a bicycle tire. I didn’t hear it in your video.

@OWCmacsales
thanks for your reply I really appreciate it.
But after 2 days a noticed a little kind of clicking sound of the hard drive I believe
i noticed it after being alone and in quiet places when nobody was home
the weird thing is that it always starts to happen like 2 hours after I turned it on and always while SURFING the web
that’s what i mostly use it for. I recorded a video, can you check it out on my channel please, I just added it?

@gruten27 A 12.5mm tall hard drive will fit in all 13″, 15″ and 17″ MacBook/MacBook Pro models with the “unibody” design. It also fits in the 17″ pre-unibody MacBook Pros. The rest of the MacBook/MacBook Pro line is limited by space to using a 9.5mm tall hard drive.

I have a mid-2009 15″ Unibody Macbook Pro. It doesn’t have a removable battery. I have seen conflicting information about whether this model can fit a 12.5mm internal drive, can you clarify this for me?

The 1st gen. 15″ Macbook Pro is the best. Easy removable back to switch out battery and HDD swap. Also it has expresscard slot, alot more efficient than the SD slot thats why the 17″ MBP unibody still keep the ExpressCard slot.

@ecuamario Seagate drives are quite reliable. We sell many for upgrades such as this as well as use them in a variety of our external storage solutions.

Hi, i just bought a mbp off of ebay and it came with a seagate 500gb hard drive, have u ever used seagate? are they realiable?
thanks

maybe a stupid question, but would i be able to just copy over everything from my old harddrive on to my new one, snowleopard adobe etc??

search ebuyer they have a few.

If you click “More Info” in the upper right corner you’ll find a link to all the SATA 2.5″ drives that OWC offers for the MacBook Pro.

i want to upgrade my mbp unibody hardrive can u give a link to a 500GB HDD at 7200Rpm i can buy?

Yes, a 2.5″ SSD will function in the same way as a standard hard drive and should have mounting holes in the same positions. As far as the MBP is concerned, they’re the same thing.

A simple cloning should work fine for data transfer.

Helpful video, I have a MBP unibody 3.06 GHz CPU and a 500 GB HDD at 7200 RPM. Can I transfer data over to a SSD (flash drive) and install it on my mac? Appreciate the help.

Pretty close, we do have a video for that model as well on our videos page.

is my assumption that the procedure is the same on a 13 inch unibody correct sir?

Wow, that’s less work than on the older Macbook pros. I have a 2006 model and I was able to upgrade the hard drive. It did take me a while.

Thanks for the clear directions … job done!

No, the warranty would not be voided for replacing the hard drive as it is considered a user-upgradeable part.

this voide the warranty?

It is A LOT easier, but I replaced my HD in an older MBP without much difficulty, and I’m not renowned for my technical skill, to say the least.

This is great, one thing that was putting me off getting a macbook pro was the horror stories I’d heard about upgrading hard disks on previous models but this looks so much easier! Thanks!