Has anyone tried this drive with Mid 2009 13" Macbook Pro?
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I bought this and replaced the 500mb stock hard drive on my mid-2009 MacBook pro 15". I know you asked for a 13", but I'll give you my review anyways. When I bought my laptop, I bought it with top of the line specs, with the back-then hi-res display and all, except for the hard drive. I figured I'd replace it anyways later on, and I finally did a few months ago. The swapping out was very easy, no hassles or misalignment of any sort. Fit like a puzzle piece, almost too easy. And my MacBook accepted it upon booting and whatnot, installed Mac os, bootcamp partitioned it 50/50, and my MacBook feels brand new. I have nothing but good things to say about this drive, or its compatibility with MacBook pro, or at least from my own experience. The noise level is about the same as my old stock hard drive when it gets some beefy work, which is not an issue for me. I've had it for about 4 months of heavy usage, and have been perfectly happy with it. I hope it helped.
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The drive would work ok.. the 2.5" may or may-not work in side the Macbook pro case depending on the cases.. however it would work with usb 2 or 3 as a external drive.
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There is no reason why this drive would not work on any Mac running OSX 10.4 or higher. There are some OSX applications on the drive but I've never used them (I just deleted them) so I don't know if they'll run on 10.10. You don't need them to use the drive on your Mac.
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sorry not to answer your question directly but be I wanted to warn you that this drive only lasted 10 months before dying when installed on a macbook pro 2010 model. if you comb through other reviews you'll see the same report by others.
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I've used both the 1&2 TB in my early 2008 MAC Pro; they work prefect. No issues to report.
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It can't be used as internal drive of MacBook Pro. The solution is only Change another brand of harddisk.
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Yes, I bought this drive a year ago and have been very happy with it. Rather than use the software that came with it I did my backups manually, just the folders I wanted saved such as photos and documents. I've updated it regularly and never had any issues other than the cord can easily come out of it so I suggest when you do a backup to place both your MacBook Pro and the drive on a table and leave them alone after the backup starts to take place. I also make sure I have the power plugged in and have the screen set to remain on rather than hibernate so I can take a quick look to check the progress. Yes, I bought this drive a year ago and have been very happy with it. Rather than use the software that came with it I did my backups manually, just the folders I wanted saved such as photos and documents. I've updated it regularly and never had any issues other than the cord can easily come out of it so I suggest when you do a backup to place both your MacBook Pro and the drive on a table and leave them alone after the backup starts to take place. I also make sure I have the power plugged in and have the screen set to remain on rather than hibernate so I can take a quick look to check the... » Read More Yes, I bought this drive a year ago and have been very happy with it. Rather than use the software that came with it I did my backups manually, just the folders I wanted saved such as photos and documents. I've updated it regularly and never had any issues other than the cord can easily come out of it so I suggest when you do a backup to place both your MacBook Pro and the drive on a table and leave them alone after the backup starts to take place. I also make sure I have the power plugged in and have the screen set to remain on rather than hibernate so I can take a quick look to check the progress. « Show Less
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I am using 512MB SSD by this adpater. any SATA 2.5" Disk drive can use. if do you have Macbook, It's good choice.
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It is a 5400 rpm drive. I don't have the other specs on the drive but should be easy to find on the manufacturer's website. The size is pretty standard. It replaced the 120Gb drive in my 13 in 2007 White MacBook and fit easily. I did replace the HDD in a 2009 13in, unibody MacBook Pro 5.5 with an SSD. The SSD was slimmer but fit with no problems. You will need the special tools for a MacBook Pro.
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I use it with no problems on Windows 8 machines, Mac's and older windows versions. Was the drive setup for use on a Mac by any chance?
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I am currently using a 2 TB WD My Book for Mac on OSX 10.9.1. It works flawlessly and am very happy with it. I set it up when I was still using Lion. Then upgraded to Mavericks and had no problem.
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I see no problems. It is needed to have a guid partition type instead of mbr. It can to be done via Disk Utility. As a variant, just erase it (format) to mac-os, extended, journalized, encrypted.
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It works fine -- I am running mine like that on a 500 gigabyte drive that used to be in a Macbook Pro,
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Yes, I have a black version with my Macbook Pro. Before you use it, you have to format the drive using disk utility on your mac. Format the drive as ExFat file system and it works perfectly.
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The description for the 500GB model says "Preformatted hard drive is ready for immediate use with Windows and Mac." I don't have a Mac, but based on that, my guess is it should work on both.
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Not quite sure as I recently replaced my harddrive on my mac with the exact same one that I had in it before. Maybe contacting Seagate directly might be a better alternative.
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Hi Alan. It worked in the 13" mid-2009 Macbook Pro I installed it in, so it should work in yours. Good luck!
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I installed in a early 2007 MacBook Pro. It has SATA 3 spec so it runs slower than SATA 6 but is still very fast.