Macworld Forums: Great way to upgrade your Macbook Hard drive for just over $100 - Macworld Forums

Just upgraded my hard drive to 320gb drive today.. piece of cake. Fry's electronics website (www.outpost.com) has the Western Digital 320gb passport drive (http://shop4.frys.com/product/5533030?site=sr:SEARCH:MAINRSLTPG) for $119.00 .. it has a SATA drive inside, which can be easily swapped into a Macbook.

When you get the drive, hook it up to the USB port on your macbook, then, using the disk utility, erase the drive.. then, download Carbon Copy onto your computer, and use that to make an exact duplicate of your existing harddrive onto the new USB drive. Once that's done, reboot your computer while holding down the alt/option key and boot from the usb drive to make sure it works properly.. shut off the computer, disassemble the Western Digital usb drive case, remove the 2.5" drive, open up your macbook, and swap drives.



Here's a tutorial with photos.. it's VERY easy and a great way to increase capacity on your mac!

http://www.macinstruct.com/node/130



(I'm not responsible if you screw something up or void your warranty).. but I upgraded to a 250gb drive about 6 months ago and never had a problem, but when this 320gb drive came out, I wanted to go with it.. so now I'm using the 250gb drive as my time machine backup.