Your old hard drive is returned to you and can be used for backups. Since MyService is an Apple Authorized Service Provider, the 750GB upgrade will not void your Apple warranty. These drives are slightly higher than standard 2.5″ drives but fit perfectly in all Unibody MacBook Pros, the 13″ MacBook Unibody and the 17″ (Silver Keyboard) MacBook Pro.
MyService sends a custom laptop shipping container to you. Once it arrives, simply pack your laptop and send it back using the prepaid UPS shipping label. All shipping is insured and can be tracked online. You may drop your laptop at any one of the 4,200 UPS Store locations within the United States.
Once your laptop arrives at MyService, a certified technician installs the new drive and transfers the data over from your old drive. If your old hard drive is failing, a new operating system is installed. All drives feature a 3-year manufacturer’s warranty.
After the service is completed, your laptop is cleaned, tested and sent back to you, along with your old drive. All services are completed within 24 hours of arrival. MyService accepts purchase orders from education facilities.
More info here.
I’m pretty sure I’ve seen a 1TB SSD. Or are they claiming largest HDD?
Western Digital, bound to fail.
Sep 02, 09 – 08:17 pmComment from: BlackWolf
Western Digital, bound to fail.
Hitachi just released a 500GB x 7200rpm notebook drive. I’ve never heard good things about WD drives.
I’ve got nothing bad to say about WD Drives. Just put 12 1TB WD E3 drives in my XServes. Working just fine. It helps when you don’t buy the cheapest drives available from any manufacturer.
@ Urlow
If it is what i saw a few weeks ago, it was the first 1 TB, 2.5 inch drive. HOWEVER, it was 12.5 mm high, but Mac laptops need 9 mm high drives.
Only bad experiences with WD drives. Really bad. Never again. They’re cheap, and you get what you pay for.
Ok, I would say that if the story mentioned any HDD maker there’d still be a slew of ” ‘X’ company’s hard drives are rubbish” comments…
So. Anyone know who makes the best HDDs? And with all due respect, we need solid data, not your isolated experience.
“Since MyService is an Apple Authorized Service Provider, the 750GB upgrade will not void your Apple warranty”
That’s slightly misleading. Once you have the new drive in your MacBook Pro, your warranty gets split in 3. The new drive is warrantied by Western Digital. The work performed is warrantied by MyService, and Apple will only warranty the rest of the Mac.
What this means is that if your Mac isn’t working and you take it to Apple or an Apple authorized service center that isn’t MyService and it turns out to be the drive, that service center may charge you a diagnostic fee and not replace the drive as a warranty service.
The MacBook Pro has a pretty easy to replace hard drive and the unibody MacBook Pros are even easier. If you’re at all comfortable with hardware, you should just do it yourself.
@BlackWolf:
Western Digital drives are fine. It’s their crappy enclosures that fail.
Most of the drives I have currently active are WD drives, although they are all 3.5-inch desktop size drives, not portables. I’ve had no problems with them. The are quiet and run cool.
Or, you can just buy a 750 GB external 2.5″ WD drive from NewEgg, rip open the cheap enclosure, take out the drive, unscrew the back of your MacBook Pro, and replace it yourself. Total cost: $185. Total time: 45 minutes (took me about 30 minutes trying to get the case open nice before I just took a pair of scissors to the cheap plastic and cut it open.)
or just buy the drive, why with an enclosure? duhh
I just replaced my 1st gen macbook pro hard drive. It wasn’t too difficult. The new one is a 500GB Seagate 7200 RPM for $119. It’s been running great for about 2 months now.
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Because you can’t find the bare drive without the enclosure for love or money. But the external is only about $10 more than what the bare drive would sell for, if you could find it, so it is not too bad.
@qka
Stop being dumb and read the article. It says right in there that the 750gb HDD is slighlty higher (as in 2.5mm) that the standard HDD, but WILL WORK WITH ALL MACBOOK PROS. Read the fricking specs on WD’s website. The 1TB and 750GB are the same exact size, so if Myservice is offering the 750GB, obviously the 1TB will work. Donate your mac to someone worthy and go buy a PC so that way you will stop giving Mac users bad information.
‘Scuse me, I left a word out. ALL MACBOOK PRO UNIBODIES and the 17″ MBP. It will not work on the 15″ MBP, but then again why would you want one in an old thing like that?
As of this date, there is now a 1 TB drive for Samsung (MK1059GSM) that will fit, but has only 5400RPM. With a drive that large, many are returning it because it’s not fast enough. To me, the Western Digital (WD) WD75000BPKT, Scorpio, Black) 750GB, 7200 RPM with 16MB Cashe appears to be the best bang for your buck because its speed will provide slightly better than a 1/3 performance boost a long (when also factoring in the additional cashe) in over the factory drive that came with my computer. I have read reviews, another upside is this drive is very quiet and uses as much energy as 5400RPM drives.
I’m going to put this into 2.2GHz, Mac Book Pro, that was made in 2007. As an FYI, if you have one (model identifier 3,1), you can install 6GB, RAM DDR2 667 with no speed lose due to dual channels. Although the factory supports only 4GB RAM, 6GB can be installed with no loss in performance/Speed.
My computer has only 120GB hard drive, and while it works with Final Cut, the performance boost with the drive and the additional memory should keep me going for another 3-5 years. Apple is finally expected to come out with a major overhaul of Final cut (for $300). Regardless if will work in my computer, the upgrade will allow me to be more efficient and stop worrying about the umbrella. For those that can add up to 8GB RAM (DDR2 or DDR3) in your unibody (power users), I recommend it.
Just wanted to help pass on some updated information.