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Message posted by Simon Round <simeround@...>:

Hi

I have a Macbook with an 80Gig internal hard drive and I was thinking of
upgrading the harddrvie and perhaps the memory. I was wondering if anybody
had any experience of this and could recommend a particular drive/
manufcaturer?

Many thanks

Sime

I have a 250 GB Samsung drive in my Macbook (5400RPM) which is working quite 
well.

Regards
Sascha

Message posted by Simon Round <simeround@...>:

Thanks for this response. 

I opened up the Macbook and found a Hitachi drive inside (5400) so I ended up buying a 250Gig Hitachi drive as in the end I was able to get it quite quickly.

Thanks again though.

Message posted by mojokorn <jeremy@...>:

Careful of the larger capacity drives.  In particular, sizes larger than 500G as they tend to be noisy, which is obviously not good for audio mixing and recording.   Also, don't rely on the noise specs as they taken when the disc is in the non-access/idle mode and not when the disc is in active read/write, which is the noisiest mode.  A Network Attach Storage (NAS) is ideal as you can locate your switch and drive in a separate room than you are working in.  They also make Wireless NAS drives in case your switch is located next to your workstation, you can put the drive anywhere within wireless reach.

I hope this helps.

Enjoy and Happy Tracking,

mojokorn