Comments on: Upgraded my MacBook Pro with a Seagate 160GB Momentus 7200.2 HDD

By: » External eSATA pocket drive » Ben Drawbaugh

» External eSATA pocket drive » Ben Drawbaugh — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:52:01 +0000

[...] the very beginning I intended to use my old MBP hard drive as a pocket drive and I finally got around to buying an external case. I really wanted one that was [...]

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 16:54:20 +0000

Wow…. talk about “golden handcuffs”. I have a Mac Book Pro 2.0 15 inch glossy Core Duo. It does not have Firewire B. Instead it has (1394a) Firewire A (400). Why is this important to mention first? Because I have an extended warranty until 2009!! I don’t want to have voided warranty issues with Apple so my goal is to boot OSX and Windows from an external drive. I want to use Microsoft Flight Simulator X via Bootcamp. I need a fast performing external drive solution that I can backup. I am thinking of buying 1394a external drive or perhaps buying a external drive to attach to a not yet bought eSATA II adapter card. I really dont know what to do. I cannot make space on my internal drive (I need it all.) Any ideas?

By: Ben Drawbaugh

Ben Drawbaugh — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 12:02:45 +0000

I’m pretty sure the g-force one is new, so I have the other one.

By: Max v. R.

Max v. R. — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 09:22:41 +0000

did you get the one with g-force protection or the one without it?

i’m thinking about getting the seagate momentus 7200.2 200gb (st9200420asg) or the one without g-force protection (st9200420as) but i don’t know about the g-force thing…

-max

By: Difference between 5400 and 7200 rpm HD's - MacNN Forums

Difference between 5400 and 7200 rpm HD's - MacNN Forums — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 05:00:45 +0000

[...] I don’t know if anyone has seen this blog post but I saved it a while back to refer to it for how well upgrading to a 7200 turned out for them: Upgraded my MacBook Pro with a Seagate 160GB Momentus 7200.2 HDD

By: Al

Al — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 01:46:35 +0000

Does anyone know if I shoudl remove the jumper (to enable 3gb/sec) or does MacBook not support 3Gb

By: Ben Drawubagh

Ben Drawubagh — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 18:04:39 +0000

I haven’t noticed a difference in temperature or vibration. Considering the drive uses less power, I would bet it does so by wasting less energy creating heat.

By: Filippo

Filippo — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 17:14:47 +0000

One more thing. What’s about the temperature? How hot does the disc get? Do you have some benchmarks about that? And what about the vibration? Can you fell something when you have your hands on the macbook and if yes is it unconftable?

THX

By: Ed

Ed — Thu, 17 May 2007 18:54:49 +0000

Dude,

Forget the 1394 enclosure.. just look for an eSATA II and pug it into this bad boy
http://www.nitroav.com/product/484/

Would you mind posting your full xbench before and after upgrade for the disk test?

I’m acitvely looking into what to do, and after finding the seagate, found your page, according to google there’s not detailed xbench comparison on the web.

Cheers

By: Ben Drawubahg

Ben Drawubahg — Thu, 17 May 2007 18:13:02 +0000

I never noticed any noise from my original Hard drive so it is hard to compare.

I have never been bothered by the noise of the new one, but if I put my ear right next to it, I can hear it, but I would have to say it isn’t any louder than the original.

I can also definitely tell it is faster, everything seems snappier.