I've heard good things about this drive: It's not as fast as a 7200rpm drive would be, but what it lacks in speed, it makes up for in power consumption and lack of vibration and noise. To be completely honest with you, if I had the money, I'd upgrade to a SSD and spend whatever I had left over for a portable external HDD. You'll see the best performance gains going that route.

Upgrade your laptop with this 2.5-inch Western Digital 2TB SATA internal hard drive. Its dual processor has a dynamic cache to speed up read and write times, while a 5400 rpm drive speed ensures efficient performance. This Western Digital 2TB SATA internal hard drive maintains a space between the recording head and the disk to reduce wear. What would be the best 1tb internal hard drive to put in a mac book pro 13inch 1 answer Last reply Oct 18, 2015 Best Answer Oct 18, 2015 More about 1tb internal hard drive store mac book pro 13inch.

I bought a 1TB portable Seagate for $70 a couple of weeks ago. Now I'm on the prowl for a SSD w/in my budget. Hope this helps. EDIT: As far as brands go, WD, Hitachi, and Seagate are the most talked about. For the capacity that you're looking at,they'll all be around the $100 price range.

You can often find them on sale for less than that though. Click to expand.You are very wrong. All unibody MBPs will easily take a 12.5 mm drive. However, almost all 12.5 mm drives are 5,200-5,400 rpm drives (maybe all), and thus somewhat slower than 7,200 rpm drives. Check out this page for a few good options. Especially the Segate Momentous XT and 750GB drive.

In contrast to the post above, I had a horrible experience with the WD Scorpio Blue, constant stuttering, stalling, beachballs etc etc. The Hitachi and Seagate 500 7,200 rpm drives work great in my 2009 MBP.

The beautiful thing about Macs, in comparison to Windows, is that apps lack an installation process with files going to different areas of your hard drive. They all stay compiled into one 'App' file. Taking advantage of this, we can move all of our hefty apps and support files over to an external drive to free up space on the built-in drive, and in short, speed up your system. Choosing an External Drive The best external drives for Mac computers are undoubtably ones.

They're reliable, they're sturdy, and they're fast. Those are three things that are going to come in handy for our use. The G-Technology G-DRIVE mini (1TB). Image via You have options on external drive sizes, and the size necessary for you directly reflects the amount of space you require for the tasks you complete on your setup. Of course, there are many options for choosing a drive, including a few from. In my case, I chose a 1TB drive.

Video exports can pile up quickly when working with HD content, so getting the biggest drive possible for me is a necessity. For lighter users, you may want to save a couple bucks and get a 500GB drive.

And if your Mac supports it, make sure you get USB 3.0 drives, because the speed difference is amazing. Of course, you don't have to stick with a G-DRIVE.

That's just what I use. As long as it's USB 3.0 and has a fast drive speed, you should be good to go. Moving Over Your Apps Now it's time to move apps over to your new drive and clear off your internal system space. Step 1: Use Finder to Open Applications Folder Go to Finder and open up your applications folder. Image via Don't panic. All of your apps are fully executable directly off of your external drive.

As long as it stays plugged into your Mac, you still have easy access to everything. The difference now is that your hard drive is clean, allowing the disc to read and write less, and reduce search times. File Locations (Not All Apps) Some apps, such as Final Cut Pro X, have set file destinations to auto save files, exports, cache, etc. If you have any apps like this, you must change the file location or it will continue to write files to your hard drive, even if the application runs off of a separate drive.

Step 1: Open Your Program's Preferences Once your program has launched, open its Preferences. This prevents anything else from writing to my hard drive, keeping it clean and optimized. You Can Still Do More. Applications don't have to be your only focus when switching over to an external drive. They usually take up the most memory on a system, but you do have other options to switch over as well, such as music, photos, videos, notes, documents (Pages documents, Word documents, etc.), ebooks, and more. All these things take up space, thus resulting in an inevitable slow down. But, if we take the right steps, we can figure out ways to prevent it.