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\"\"There are very few certainties in life. Death and taxes are, of course, the most popular, but right up there is the fact that – barring mechanical failure – your hard drive is going to fill up.<\/p>\n

With all the music, movies, files and other stuff we tend to collect on our Macs, it really is a matter of time before you start running out of space. While it is fairly simple to gain some more space by cleaning out some of the accumulated junk<\/a>, sometimes its preferable just to upgrade to a larger hard drive instead.<\/p>\n

OWC has instructional videos for replacing the hard drive in a large number of Macs. This week, we’ve added yet another one: The 17″ MacBook Pro (non-unibody). If you’ve been feeling the hard drive pinch, but haven’t yet made the leap, check out the video in our Tech Center<\/a> or on our YouTube<\/a> channel, and see how easy it is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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