14 DAY TRIAL // Looking to upgrade your MacBook Pro hard drive? Good. That's always good. Upgrading is good. But what if you've never popped open a laptop, or don't have much experience with swapping hardware in and out of a system, all this while Apple support doesn't sound too appealing either? You watch a video guide of how to do it, of course. Now, you have both ifixit.com's instructions and a video of the procedure which you can use to upgrade your laptop's storage space.
Max Million is a MacBook Pro owner. He replaced his hard drive in around 40 minutes, according to tuaw.com. Million too used ifixit instructions in order to increase his MacBook Pro's storage capacity to as much as 320 GB. In doing so, he also made a video of the process, so everyone else can see how easy it is to swap an old HDD with a new one, as long as you follow instructions and use the appropriate tools (among which a swiss army knife).
The time-lapse video available below is under 3 minutes long, but does show exactly what one needs to do to replace the MacBook Pro's hard drive.
The MacBook Pro is a line of Macintosh notebook computers by Apple for the professional market. It makes up the high end of the MacBook family, launching as the successor to the 15-inch and 17-inch models of the PowerBook G4 series. It is also the first Macintosh laptop powered by the Intel Core Duo and Core 2 Duo processors. The MacBook Pro is currently available in two size configurations: a 15.4-inch model and a 17" model. Both were given a 2.6 GHz Merom build-to-order option on November 1, 2007.
But since you're looking to upgrade to a bigger hard drive, why not consider MCE's offer too? At $349, its MobileStor Performance 320GB HDD upgrade for both MacBook and MacBook Pro operates at 5400RPM, featuring a maximum sustained transfer rate of above 75MB/s. Burst transfer rates go up to 150MB/sec. The drive supports Native Command Queuing (NCQ) and S.M.A.R.T. status monitoring, supported by Apple's Disk Utility, which can warn you if the drive is experiencing problems that can lead to disk failure.
The real treat, however, is the enclosure. MCE's 320GB HDD includes a lightweight portable 2.5" SATA enclosure that sports both eSATA and USB 2.0 ports. It requires no screws to install your drive, as MCE themselves claim, being bus-powered, booting your MacBook Pro or MacBook when connected via USB.