Violent disappointment in the MacBook Pro (Mid 2009)

Violent disappointment in the MacBook Pro (Mid 2009)

Western Digital WD7500BPVT Blue 750GB internal hard drive (6.4 cm (2.5 inches), 5400rpm, 12 ms, 8MB Cache) (Personal Computers)

Customer Review

I have been looking for a larger hard drive for my MacBook Pro and thought with WD can not go wrong. Test results on the web looked good, so I ordered.

Copying the data was easy to install without any problems. The computer was also faster than before. But a day later - where the computer was not even busy - I heard strange noises. The off-balance sheet, brakes and accelerates constantly two seconds later again. One hears such park the heads and then read again. And that in total banal things as a page view in the browser, where you wonder what really goes to the hard drive?

Total annoying !!!

At first I thought it was a failure, but a look at the web showed the problem very often. A contact with the WD technical support did not help. Instead I got a link in the forum where other fellow sufferers, the problem discussed - without a solution.

I am the board got rid of again. Now I use ne 750GB Seagate Momentus 5400.7. The running smoothly, quietly and remains cool and is faster than my old original HD from Apple - everything you would expect with a Mac.

Therefore, from me: Absolutely no purchase recommendation for WD for the MacBook Pro.

As the matter under Windows looks like? - No idea.

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