Apple

On Aug 7, 2012, at 11:26 , Taylor Armstrong <email@hidden> wrote:

FWIW, Apple uses far more than Toshiba. You could end up with Samsung, WD, or others. Apple buys in bulk, but is not locked to just Toshiba.

Taylor

On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 9:39 AM, David Emery <email@hidden> wrote:

Apple brand drives are Toshiba, but Toshiba 2.5" apparently have some reliability problems. (I've had 2 fail, one in a Mac replaced under warranty, and one I bought myself. That's still better than Seagate 3.5" 1tb drives, where I have a 66% failure rate.)

You could try the Seagate hybrid drives, I stuck one in an older MB Pro and did notice speed-up. But I can't speak to the reliability of those drives, since I replaced that laptop. The early Seagate hybrids did have problems on Macs but I think they've resolved them. http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&DEPA=0&Order=BESTMATCH&N=100006670&isNodeId=1&Description=hybrid+drive

No matter what, I'd strongly recommend a 7200rpm drive unless you're very concerned about battery life. There is enough performance difference that you'd notice.

Just make sure you don't accidentally end up with a thick 2.5" drive. That happened to me, I bought a WD 2.5" 1tb drive that is thicker than the standard laptop drives. I ended up having to buy a new external enclosure for it, since it didn't fit in my other external drive enclosures.

dave
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	>[Fed-Talk] Mac hard drives (From: David Emery <email@hidden>)
	>Re: [Fed-Talk] Mac hard drives (From: Taylor Armstrong <email@hidden>)