{"id":2075,"date":"2009-02-02T01:19:33","date_gmt":"2009-02-02T09:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/37prime.wordpress.com\/?p=2075"},"modified":"2009-02-02T01:19:33","modified_gmt":"2009-02-02T09:19:33","slug":"laptop-hard-drive-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2009\/02\/02\/laptop-hard-drive-upgrade\/","title":{"rendered":"Laptop Hard Drive Upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I upgraded my MacBook Pro hard drive to fresh install Mac OS X Leopard along with iLife &#8217;09 and iWork &#8217;09. I opted to get Western Digital Scorpio Black 320GB 7200RPM 16MB Cache notebook hard drive. I could have gotten a 500GB hard drive, but it is running at 5400RPM and only has 8MB cache.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/tech-data\/B001JSSDGU\/?tag=37prime-20\" target=\"_blank\">Western Digital 500GB Scorpio Blue 2.5 SATA II 5400 RPM 8MB (WD5000BEVT)<br \/>\n<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B001CO3EKQ\/?tag=37prime-20\" target=\"_blank\">Western Digital 320GB Scorpio Black 2.5 SATA II 7200 RPM 16MB (WD3200BEKT)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I also need to get an external SATA FireWire\/USB\/eSATA enclosure or dock for the old hard drive.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0012DR4HG\/?tag=37prime-20\" target=\"_blank\">Macally PHR-250CC Hi-Speed FireWire\/USB2.0 External Storage Enclosure for 2.5&#8243; SATA HDD<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B001A4HAFS\/?tag=37prime-20\" target=\"_blank\">Thermaltake BlacX eSATA Hard Drive USB Docking Station<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>My favorite 2.5-inch SATA hard drive enclosure with FireWire is none other than <a href=\"http:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/shop\/firewire\/on-the-go\" target=\"_blank\">OWC Mercury On-The-Go<\/a>. It is a little bit pricey, but by-far it has been the best enclosure I ever have.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I upgraded my MacBook Pro hard drive to fresh install Mac OS X Leopard along with iLife &#8217;09 and iWork &#8217;09. I opted to get Western Digital Scorpio Black 320GB 7200RPM 16MB Cache notebook hard drive. I could have gotten a 500GB hard drive, but it is running at 5400RPM and only has 8MB cache. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2009\/02\/02\/laptop-hard-drive-upgrade\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Laptop Hard Drive Upgrade&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[946,4],"tags":[1501,1680,1851,1931,1938,2009,2511,936,3189],"class_list":["post-2075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-news","tag-ilive-09","tag-iwork-09","tag-leopard","tag-mac-os-x","tag-macbook","tag-media","tag-resources","tag-tech","tag-western-digital"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcNtU-xt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2075\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}