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MePerson
07/27/09

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Coming soon: the new iPod Classic 1TB! Up to 175 continuous days of your favorite music!
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VenomIreland
07/27/09

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12.5mm is 2.5" right?
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MacBandit
07/27/09

@VenomIreland:

Wrong. 25.4mm in an inch. They are referring to the thickness of the HDD. Most 2.5" drives are 9.5mm thick and fit in any computer that uses 2.5" drives. These drives are 12.5mm thick and only fit in some laptops (mostly the thicker/bigger laptops that have the room to fit the larger size).
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VenomIreland
07/27/09

@MacBandit: Ah thanks. Very Strange size for a HD.
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FuturePastNow
07/27/09

@VenomIreland: 12.5mm is the thickness. Most mobile drives are 9.5mm thick.

This won't fit in very many notebooks.
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FooSchnickens - BPH Free
07/27/09

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Wow.... This might be reason enough to start carrying around a small notebook and ditching my photobank...

DECISIONS....
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ValfridBuccaneer
07/27/09

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@dark42 He's referring to height. Yes, it's a standard 2.5" HDD (whereas the MBA uses a 1.8") however there is 12mm height, and 9.5mm height (same situation with ODDs: Most MacBook/Pros takes 9.5mm whereas i/PowerBooks take 12mm). Only the 17" non-unibody MacBook Pros will accept 12mm ODDs, and quite possibly this 12mm HDD.
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OMG! Ponies!
07/27/09

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Jesus,

You don't have 1TB of desktop data. You have 300GB of music and 700GB of pr0n.
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Nikkoli
07/27/09

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I find it a bit interesting that they leave out the RPM of the hard drives....
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GitEmSteveDave_HurtHisKnee
07/27/09

@Nikkoli: From what I can gather/guess, it's 5400, like all their others, and also may be variable, to keep it "green".
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Pablomancan
07/27/09

@Nikkoli: You do realize that the density of the drive, being 5400 respectively, makes it as fast, if not faster than a similar hard drive running at 7200 RPM with about 600~750GB.

Just sayin'
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TheSonOfKrypton
07/27/09

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Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh SNAP! Unfortunately, I don't think this can be used in Macbook Pro's.....I'm strictly going off of memory here (so I may be wrong) but don't Macbook Pro's require the 9.5 mm form factor as they are thinner than many other notebooks?
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dark42
07/27/09

@TheSonOfKrypton: Nope, I have the newest-generation 13" MBP, I have taken it apart and I will tell you that it uses a standard 2.5 inch laptop HDD.
You might be thinking of the Macbook Air. But who has one of those anyway? :D
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Andrew Pilipczuk
07/27/09

@TheSonOfKrypton: The Unibody MacBook Pro's can fit a 12.5mm drive, I have one in mine.
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Modano
07/27/09

@Andrew Pilipczuk: So if I get one of the 1TB ones, I can install OS X on it, pull it out of the case and install it in my unibody MBP, no problem?
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TheSonOfKrypton
07/27/09

@Andrew Pilipczuk: Seriously? How come when i google it, I get a whole bunch of links about how MBP's only fit the 9" form factor HDD's....
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orthorim
07/27/09

@Andrew Pilipczuk: Really? Are you 100% sure?What exact model hard drive do you have? Before this, there were hardly any worth-while 12.5mm drives available, e.g. the biggest and best was the 500GB 7200 RPM drive from Seagate... at 9.5mm...
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Andrew Pilipczuk
07/27/09

@TheSonOfKrypton: I dunno, but I bought an external 2.5" 500GB drive that had a 12.5mm drive, and it fit in my Unibody with no problems what so ever. I'll get some pictures later.
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Tezlan
07/27/09

@TheSonOfKrypton: I have a MBP and bought a 320gb 2.5 Scorpio drive and had an apple authorized installer install it in my computer then make a mirror of the old hd onto the new hd and everything was seemingly as I had left it, but just with double the drive space. I'm thinking about getting this nice piece of hardware.
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GitEmSteveDave_HurtHisKnee
07/27/09

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Wait Jesus. Are you telling us your desktop has LESS than 1TB of info on/in it? I feel so disillusioned.
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strider_mt2k
07/27/09

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Hey that IS pretty nice.
Someday perhaps I'll run a laptop with SATA internal, but I still wouldn't mind this in a compact external SATA enclosure in the meantime.

I recently started buying WD drives after swearing off of them for a few years, and I have to say they've all been great!

I hope this one rocks!
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