{"id":703,"date":"2010-11-28T12:30:55","date_gmt":"2010-11-28T11:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gennard.net\/blog\/?p=703"},"modified":"2010-11-28T12:30:55","modified_gmt":"2010-11-28T11:30:55","slug":"macbook-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gennard.net\/blog\/2010\/11\/macbook-upgrade\/","title":{"rendered":"MacBook upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My home laptop is my beloved black macbook which has a reasonable Core Duo 2.2 ghz but unfortunately the hard drive is getting a bit full due using as my digital photo album&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>After a bit of research I decided to replace the 250gb drive with a new shinny 500gb from Seagate.<\/p>\n<p><b>Preparation<\/b><\/p>\n<p>After receiving the drive I needed to clone the drive to new drive, which is pretty straight forward if you have a &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/B001A5SK56\/ref=oss_product\">SATA\/IDE Adapter Kit with Power Adapter for a 2.5 drive<\/a>&#8221; and &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bombich.com\/\">Carbon Copy Clone<\/a>r&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>After cloning the drive you can checkout the drive by booting off the external drive to see if everything is as you expected (press right alt on bootup)&#8230; Note: cloning the drive too hours&#8230; so perhaps leave it overnight..<\/p>\n<p><b>Installing the drive<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Then you can follow apple&#8217;s own instructions, which are kindly documented below, though my drive housing required the use of my trusty torx security drivers bits because it had one of those security screws&#8230;.. thanks apple.. \ud83d\ude42    Ohh.. you might want to leave your macbook turned off for a while to ensure it is cool as the drive is a snug fit.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the outcome is I have a larger, faster drive and zipper little macbook&#8230; it feels quite nice&#8230; why didn&#8217;t I do it earlier&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>References<\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/manuals.info.apple.com\/en\/macbook_13inch_harddrive_diy.pdf\">Apple&#8217;s drive replacement instructions<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.co.uk\/search?source=ig&#038;hl=en&#038;rlz=&#038;q=Seagate+ST9500420AS&#038;btnG=Google+Search\">Seagate ST9500420AS, 500GB Mobile SATA Momentus, 7200RPM 16MB Cache<\/a><\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My home laptop is my beloved black macbook which has a reasonable Core Duo 2.2 ghz but unfortunately the hard drive is getting a bit full due using as my digital photo album&#8230; After a bit of research I decided &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gennard.net\/blog\/2010\/11\/macbook-upgrade\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,32],"tags":[89,217,167,174],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gennard.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gennard.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gennard.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gennard.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gennard.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gennard.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gennard.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gennard.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gennard.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}