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DIY Bundle
Includes: 1.0TB 2.5" Seagate BarraCuda 7200RPM 9.5mm HD, OWC Express USB 2.0 Enclosure, and OWC 5 Piece Toolkit Mac / PC / USB 2.0 & 1.1

HD Upgrade
Get more storage when you upgrade/replace the existing 2.5" drive in your Mac.
Includes a 2.5" drive, enclosure, and toolkit to upgrade/replace the internal drive in your Mac.
Upgrade/Replace your internal drive
The Drive and Tools you need to Upgrade/Replace the existing 2.5" Drive in your laptop, Mac mini, Xbox, PS3, etc + make the drive being replaced an External for data transfer, backup, and/or additional portable storage.
Everything you need in one package, immediately ready to assemble and:
  • Backup and store your data with style and confidence.
  • Take your data with you - small enough to keep in a pocket!
  • Easily add additional laptop storage with no AC adapter required.
Examples of how this bus-powered Express bundle can be used in real world situations:
Power Users / Travelers: Relocate your "home folder" to your Express and have your files with you at home, at work or on the road without the need to synchronize your machines.

Laptop Owners: Clone your current internal SATA hard drive in your laptop to the new drive. Then install the new, larger drive in your laptop and keep the smaller drive in your Express for additional storage space.

iTunes Aficionados: Keep a copy of your iTunes library on your external drive to play on multiple machines.

Gamers: Add additional storage to your XBox 360 or PS3 game console to store music, media, and other downloads. PS3 even includes a backup utility to protect your internal drive's data.

For Everyone: Have the piece of mind of a complete backup plan. Create a bootable clone of your hard drive at regular intervals so if your computer goes down, your productivity doesn't go down with it. Boot to another computer and keep on working!
The Right Tools for the Job
Before attempting to perform this installation, please watch the following instructional video in its entirety to determine your ability to perform this complex procedure. OWC assumes no responsibility for damage that may occur during the install. Technical support for this DIY product consists only of this video.

Everything you need in one package, immediately ready to assemble and:
  • OWC Express 2.5" SATA Drive Enclosure
  • 1.0TB Seagate BarraCuda Hard Disk Drive
  • OWC 5-Piece Mini Toolkit
  • High Quality Double Shielded USB 2.0/1.1 (mini-B type) connecting cable
  • Assembly Manual & User Guide
  • Carrying sleeve
  • 1 Year OWC Enclosure Limited Warranty with 48-Hour Turnaround Time
Yes, You Can Do-it-Yourself
OWC is committed to your success. If you need a bit more guidance, simply contact OWC's award-winning U.S. based Technical Support. We'll be happy to answer any questions you may have.
Note: Compatible with ALL notebooks that accept 9.5mm SATA drives. New low profile 1.0TB hard drive included.
*Bus powered via USB port on most computers, provided computer's bus supplies appropriate power needs.

Includes

Mercury Elite-AL Pro includes
  • OWC Express 2.5″ SATA Drive Enclosure
  • 1.0TB Seagate BarraCuda Hard Disk Drive
  • OWC 5-Piece Mini Toolkit
    • Nylon Spudger
    • Phillips #00
    • Straight Blade 1.8mm
    • Torx T8
    • Torx T6
  • High Quality Double Shielded USB 2.0/1.1 (mini-B type) connecting cable
  • Assembly Manual & User Guide
  • Quick Start Guide
  • Carrying sleeve
  • 1 Year OWC Enclosure Limited Warranty with 48-Hour Turnaround Time

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1.0TB Seagate BarraCuda Specifications:

Specifications

Form Factor
2.5-inch 7mm
Interface
1.0TB
Formatted Capacity2
931GiB
Rotational Speed
7,200 RPM
Cache / Data Buffer
128MB
Manufacturer Model Number
ST1000LM049
RoHS Compliant
Yes
Format
Unformatted (Instructions on formatting here)

Physical

Height (max)
0.7 cm (0.3 in)
Width (max)
7.0 cm (2.8 in)
Length (max)
10.0 cm (4.0 in)
Weight (typical)
90.0 g (0.20 lbs)
Bytes per Sector
4,096

Reliability3

Contact Start-Stops
600,000
Nonrecoverable Read Errors
1 per 1014 bits read

Performance

Transfer Rate (Max)
up to 140MB/s

Power

Read Power
Up to 1.9 Watts
Write Power
Up to 1.7 Watts
Idle Mode
Up to 0.45 Watts

Environmental (Operating)

Shock
400 G max at 2ms
Ambient Temperature (°F)
32°F to 140°F
Ambient Temperature (°C)
0°C to 60°C
Altitude
-304.8 m to 3,048 m (-1,000 ft to 10,000+ ft)

Environmental (Non-Operating)

Shock
1000 G max at 1ms
Ambient Temperature (°F)
-40°F to 158°F
Ambient Temperature (°C)
-40°C to 70°C
Altitude
-304.8 m to 12,192 m (-1000 ft to 40,000+ ft)

Acoustics

Idle (Typical)
2.0 bels
Seek (Typical)
2.4 bels

Applications

Laptops
Mobile Storage
External Storage Systems
All-in-one PCs
Ultra-slim Desktop PCs
  1. 1GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes. Total accessible capacity varies depending upon operating environment (typically 5-10% less). The actual total capacity will depend on your own defined file settings/preferences.
  2. In terms of standard gigabytes, 1GiB ≈ 1.074GB and refers to the actual formatted capacity of shown under Mac OS 10.5 or earlier and Microsoft Windows OS.
  3. Specific application environments such as temperature and duty cycle will affect the overall reliability rates.

OWC Express Specifications:

Chipset

  • Jmicron 20329 USB 2.0 chipset

Interfaces Supported

  • USB 2.0 / 1.1 Backwards compatible

Port Configuration

  • USB 2.0 - (1) mini "B" port

Max Data Transfer Rate

  • USB 2.0 - 480Mbps (or 60MB/sec)

Port/Interface Bootability

    Can I use this solution as an external startup drive?
  • USB 2.0: Supported on Macs and PC's meeting minimum requirements. - Click for more info

System Requirements

  • Macintosh: Macintosh running OS 8.6 to 9.2.2, OS X 10.2.x or later including 'Mavericks' 10.9.x, and an available USB port. Time Machine® Compatible: Mac OS X 10.5 (version introduced) and later.
  • PC: Windows 8, 7, Vista, XP, 2000, NT, 98, and an available USB port.
  • Linux: Linux compatible via supported the USB interface.

Cooling

  • Super quiet fanless ventilation

Power Supply

  • Bus Power via USB on all models with USB 2.0 port

Drive Requirements

  • Any 2.5" Serial-ATA Hard Drive up to 9.5mm height. Not recommended for Solid State Drives.

External Case Dimensions

  • 3.07 in (W) x 5.12 in (D) x 0.55 in (H)

Enclosure Weight (no accessories)

  • 2.0 ounces (56g)

Product Manual

Operating Environment:

Temperature

  • Dependent on mechanism installed

Relative Humidity

  • Dependent on mechanism installed

Shock

  • Dependent on mechanism installed

Vibration

  • Dependent on mechanism installed

Warranty

1 Year OWC Enclosure Limited Warranty

The best warranty is one you never have to use, but should the need occur - OWC is proud to provide a superior level of support and warranty coverage to our customers. Even when not used, we understand the peace of mind afforded by a longer warranty period. OWC's industry leading coverage is a testament to our confidence in the reliability of the solutions that we offer. OWC solutions are engineered to demanding quality standards in order to deliver the most reliable, highest performance available on the market in each storage category.

View more information about the 1 Year OWC Enclosure Limited Warranty

Manufacturer provided specifications for Other World Computing p/n Y0J1TB7200 UPC#: 812437028799

Customer Ratings

Write a Review 5 / 5 8 out of 9 (89%) reviewers would recommend this product
Verified Buyer
Reviewer: ago0001 Location: El Paso, TX Age: 45-54 Experience Level: Home User Owned Product: over 6 months
Rating: 5/5 Great upgrade August 6, 2018 Upgraded my HD and it was so easy to do. Everything was explained by OWC

I would recommend this item to a friend! Customer Videos:

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Reviewer: JTG2132 Location: New York, NY Age: 25-34 Experience Level: Gamer Owned Product: over 6 months
Rating: 5/5 Survived Two Years' Intensive Use March 14, 2017 I purchased this HDD back in November 2014 to replace the failing HDD in my MacBook Pro. Installation was blessedly simple, and it's survived tremendous abuse since. (I'm a public school teacher and graduate student, and this thing has been my constant companion for two years.) The HDD finally died a couple weeks back, but with plenty of early signs of failure.

Overall, very pleased with the drive's performance. Of course it would be ideal if it'd lasted another two years, but given the amount of abuse the system has taken, I feel like I got my money's worth.

Oh, and the online video tutorials made installation easy. Love that feature of OWC services.

I would recommend this item to a friend! Customer Videos:

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Reviewer: happy4camper Location: New York,NY Age: 45-54 Experience Level: Home User Owned Product: 1-3 months
Rating: 5/5 great company,great product September 8, 2016 I would recommend this item to a friend! This review is from DIY KIT: OWC Express USB 2.0 2.5" Enclosure + 1.0TB HGST 5400RPM HDD. Customer Videos:
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Reviewer: nickyname
Rating: 4/5 great kit August 19, 2016 made upgrading my drive a cinch.

great company, great products.

I would recommend this item to a friend! This review is from DIY KIT: 500GB 7200RPM HD for MacBook, MacBook Pro (or PC Notebook)+OWC Express 2.5" Enclosure Kit. Customer Videos:

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Reviewer: Anonymous Location: Missouri Age: 55-65 Experience Level: Power User Owned Product: 1-3 months
Rating: 5/5 So far so good June 4, 2016 I was able to clone my Mac hd from a 750 to a tb. About my third time upgrading this MacBook Pro and always from OWC. Very happy with my purchase and I end up with a 750gb external. Great prices and fast shipping. Online video to explain the switch out. What more could you want?

I would recommend this item to a friend!

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Reviewer: Anonymous Location: Midland, MI Age: 45-54 Experience Level: Home User Owned Product: less than a month
Rating: 5/5 A lot of Bang for the Buck May 9, 2016 Needed to update my new laptop and MacSales did it again. They had just what was needed at a very reasonable price. Great technical support and fast shipping. The place to go for all your Mac needs.

I would recommend this item to a friend!

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Reviewer: Anonymous Location: Louisiana Age: 25-34 Experience Level: Home User Owned Product: over 6 months
Rating: 5/5 Gave new life to my old laptop March 4, 2016 I replaced the hard drive of my 2010 MacBook with this, and was able to keep the old one as an external drive. The extra HD space greatly improved my computer's performance, and made it feel like new. This kit made the process super easy.

I would recommend this item to a friend! This review is from DIY KIT: OWC Express USB 2.0 2.5" Enclosure + 500GB HGST 7200RPM HDD.

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Reviewer: Anonymous Location: Oregon Age: 55-65 Experience Level: Power User Owned Product: 1-3 months
Rating: 5/5 Perfectly easy........ February 28, 2016 Beautiful design, effortless assembly/installation. Made the MacBook upgrade I did easy as follows: 1 - purchased this kit.......drive plus enclosure......with cool tools of course 2 - upon arrival, installed the hd into the enclosure.........2 minutes....literally. 3 - cloned my MacBook to the external had I just "built" 4 - removed MacBook hd 5 - removed external hd from enclosure, and installed into MacBook. 6 - took old MacBook hd and installed it into the external enclosure,

I now have a MacBook with a hd that's much bigger (4x) and much faster, and much newer............and a nice handy spare 250gb external drive. Win, win, win..........very happy with quality and value.........as always.

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Reviewer: Anonymous Location: Metro Detroit Age: 45-54 Experience Level: IT Professional Owned Product: less than a month
Rating: 5/5 Couldn't be any easier! August 13, 2015 Swapped out an existing 250Gb drive for a new 1Tb drive in my daughter's laptop... it couldn't be any easier! I think the whole process to less than 10 minutes and that included watching the video on this site on "how-to". Having the external case for the old drive made it super simple to move the data to the new drive and she was up and running in just a few hours. No complaints and a happy laptop owner!

I would recommend this item to a friend! This review is from DIY KIT: OWC Express USB 2.0 2.5" Enclosure + 1.0TB HGST 5400RPM HDD.

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Reviewer: Anonymous
Rating: 5/5 Worked as advertised June 12, 2015 I would recommend this item to a friend!
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Reviewer: Anonymous Location: Canada Age: 35-44 Experience Level: Noob Owned Product: less than a month
Rating: 5/5 Awesome and easy to install! April 14, 2015 Just ordered this last week and it arrived so quickly. It took no time to watch a how-to video and switch out my old hard drive and put in the new one. It was also easy to turn the old one into a portable hd with the easy to use enclosure. Also, the prices were so good compared to my local stores.

I would recommend this item to a friend!

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Reviewer: Anonymous
Rating: 5/5 Great product. February 6, 2015 The kit came with every little tool that I would need to DIY. It was a very simple process to swap out my wife's HD and install the new one. I would highly recommend this product to anyone who needs a new HD.

I would recommend this item to a friend!

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Reviewer: Anonymous Location: West Palm Beach Age: 55-65 Experience Level: Home User Owned Product: 1-3 months
Rating: 5/5 Good deal, right size November 24, 2014 Easy instructions, just had to reread them to reboot. Works great! I'm happy. Great company to work with. OWC!!!

I would recommend this item to a friend! This review is from DIY KIT: 640GB 7200RPM HD for MacBook, MacBook Pro (or PC Notebook) + OWC Express 2.5" Enclosure Kit.

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Reviewer: Anonymous Location: University Place, WA Age: Over 65 Experience Level: Home User Owned Product: less than a month
Rating: 5/5 Easy and worth every penny! October 18, 2014 I bought this 1.0TB DIY HD kit along with a set of upgrade OWC RAM for my aluminum MacBook Pro and a few other small trinkets, and watched the install video while waiting for the package to arrive.

When it got here I checked to make certain I got everything and unpacked it all. I cleared a space, put on an old antistatic wrist strap I had laying around, flipped my MacBook over, grabbed the OWC tools and opened the patient, uh, I mean computer.

Took me all of half an hour to replace the old RAM with new and old HD with new.

After formatting the new HD it was just a matter of loading the latest OS X version and all my files onto the machine and I was back in service that evening.

This new hard drive has nearly undetectable noise and vibration, gives me a little longer battery life due to it's low power consumption, and appears to give off essentially *no* heat at all.

The old drive now lives in the included external housing, which was even easier to do. :)

Hardest part was to keep myself from rushing through the job.

I'll admit this is not the first drive from OWC I've dropped in to one of my Macs, nor will it be the last, and not once have I ever had the slightest problem simply following OWC's instructions.

Thanks once again, guys!

I would recommend this item to a friend! This review is from DIY KIT: OWC Express USB 2.0 2.5" Enclosure + 1.0TB HGST 5400RPM HDD.

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Reviewer: Anonymous Location: Clinton, MA Age: 55-65 Experience Level: Hobbiest Owned Product: 1-3 months
Rating: 4/5 Nice simple external drive September 8, 2014 I purchased this product to upgrade the HD in my 2009 MacMini. I was originally running Snow Leopard, but I wanted the new drive in place before I upgraded to Mavericks. Assembly of the bare drive into the enclosure is very straight forward. Then I cloned the original 160GB SL drive to the 500GB HGST drive using Disk Utility. Following the instructions on OWC website, I disassemble my MacMini and upgraded RAM and swapped the hard drives, putting my original 160GB drive into the enclosure. The new drive booted right away and then I proceeded to upgrade to Mavericks. Once the Mavericks upgrade was stable, I cloned the new drive to my old drive so that I have a bootable backup of Mavericks. Since the old drive was smaller than my new drive, Disk Utility would not work for me so I used DataBackup3 instead and that worked fine.

I did not give the product 5 stars because being very simple, the controller in the enclosure won't put the harddrive to sleep when the computer goes to sleep. But as a backup boot, it works fine.

I would recommend this item to a friend! This review is from DIY KIT: OWC Express USB 2.0 2.5" Enclosure + 500GB HGST 7200RPM HDD.

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Reviewer: Anonymous Location: Moreno Valley, Ca Age: 55-65 Experience Level: Power User Owned Product: less than a month
Rating: 5/5 Easy Installation of Hard Drive August 27, 2014 I decided to upgrade my mid 2009 white Macbook. I upgraded the ram to 4GB and I upgraded the hard drive to the HGST 500GB 7200rpm DYI kit which came with the drive, a hard drive enclosure to use your old drive as a external drive and a tool kit.. OWC had everything I needed for the upgrades at a reasonable price. The installation is quite simple for the first timer if you follow the instructions and watch the videos from the OWC website. My Macbook now is quick and more responsive and is up to speed as some newer models. I am glad I found the OWC website great products, do your research compare and you can't go wrong.

I would recommend this item to a friend! This review is from DIY KIT: OWC Express USB 2.0 2.5" Enclosure + 500GB HGST 7200RPM HDD.

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Reviewer: Anonymous Location: Westminster, MD Age: 45-54 Experience Level: IT Professional Owned Product: 1-3 months
Rating: 5/5 Great value August 14, 2014 I bought this to repair/upgrade a friends Macbook Pro. The installation went quickly and smoothly. In very little time, I was able to get her Mac up and running again.

I would recommend this item to a friend! This review is from DIY KIT: OWC Express USB 2.0 2.5" Enclosure + 1.0TB HGST 5400RPM HDD.

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Reviewer: Anonymous Location: Merano, Italy Age: Over 65 Experience Level: Power User Owned Product: over 6 months
Rating: 4/5 It is very silent and fast enough. May 17, 2014 I am very satisfied. The 1.5TB HSGT Travelstar results very silent and quite fast despite the 1.5 TB capacity. I use it in my Power Book Pro Early 2009 as a second internal hard drive along with a hybrid HD of 750 GB. Thans to OWC !

I would recommend this item to a friend! This review is from DIY KIT: 1.5TB 5400RPM HD for MacBook, MacBook Pro, Mac mini (or PC)+OWC Express 2.5" Enclosure Kit.

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Reviewer: Anonymous Location: Mass Age: 55-65 Experience Level: IT Professional Owned Product: 1-3 months
Rating: 5/5 Great value January 19, 2014 Love the drive as well as the enclosure. One must realize, however, that this is an USB drive, so throughput is limited to that bus speed.' Size and ease of installation into the enclosure are good. 640gb is certainly OK for my use, running Linux Mint on an external device as a second OS. 640 gb is extremely, really overkill for Linux, but storing media from and for the OS make it an ideal size.

I would recommend this item to a friend! This review is from DIY KIT: 640GB 7200RPM HD for MacBook, MacBook Pro (or PC Notebook) + OWC Express 2.5" Enclosure Kit.

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Reviewer: Anonymous Location: Long Island. NY Age: 35-44 Experience Level: Noob Owned Product: over 6 months
Rating: 5/5 Phenomenal company. Tech support is awesome. July 30, 2013 The customer service at OWC is phenomenal. I am a novice and never did any mac upgrades before, but with your hepl i was able to upgrade my 2007 mac mini from 80G to 1 TB hard drive for my 11 year old instead of buying another mac mini. The istallation videos could be better, but i finally figured it out.Cost is budget friendly. With OWCs help and their wonderful tech support i will be able to make my budget stretch by becoming a DIYER for my computers at home. Thanks sooo much.

I would recommend this item to a friend!

Verified Buyer
Reviewer: Anonymous Location: Los Angeles, CA Age: 45-54 Experience Level: Power User Owned Product: 5-6 months
Rating: 5/5 Easy peasy installation July 16, 2013 I inherited a 2006 MacBook Pro with 1 GB of RAM and a 150 GB hard drive. The hard drive had only 15 GB free and the overall performance was slow, slow, slow. I ordered the 4 GB RAM kit for this model and the 500 GB 7200 RPM hard drive kit and wow--it's turbocharged! It performs almost as well as my 2009 MacBook Pro with 8 GB RAM.

Installation was a piece of cake--it took barely 10 minutes from start to finish. I installed the old hard drive in the provided enclosure and it's a great backup. I would recommend this to anyone.

I would recommend this item to a friend! This review is from DIY KIT: 500GB 7200RPM HD for MacBook, MacBook Pro (or PC Notebook)+OWC Express 2.5" Enclosure Kit.

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Reviewer: Anonymous Location: Portland, or Age: Over 65 Experience Level: Home User Owned Product: less than a month
Rating: 5/5 terrific upgrade to my old MaBook July 8, 2013 I have a 5 year old MacBook which I upgraded with OWC memory (up from 2 to 4GB) and hard disk (up from 250GB to 1TB) last week. The Mac had been struggling to even run Iphoto by itself and the hard-disk was down to about 10% free and I figured that was part of the slow processing problem. I ran benchmarks after the memory upgrade and again after the disk upgrade and the test numbers didn't show much improvement. But when I started using the system for my own apps the difference was astounding! I am now able to run Iphoto, email and several other apps concurrently and it all runs very fast, not to mention that my disk management worries are resolved for the next few years. I'm now starting to think about upgrading my IMac as well.

My only suggestion for improvement would be to provide an overview roadmap of how to do these upgrades. It took me a while to understand when I might use cloning as opposed to Migration Assistant, etc. I've never done this before so I ran multiple backups of all my data prior to touching the system so I was prepared for the worst, but it was actually pretty straightforward.

I would recommend this item to a friend! This review is from DIY KIT: OWC Express USB 2.0 2.5" Enclosure + 1.0TB HGST 5400RPM HDD.

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Reviewer: CapeJim Location: The great Midwest (Missouri) Age: Over 65 Experience Level: Power User Owned Product: less than a month
Rating: 5/5 Piece-of-cake upgrade for your Mac or PC February 18, 2013 I actually have bought two of these (at different times), plus another upgrade kit with this same enclosure. The enclosure goes together quickly & is excellent for eSATA 2.5 inch drives, whether you will use the spacious 1TB drive included, or if you put the huge drive in your Mac and pull the original drive for extra storage outside of your Mac. I put my iTunes library in one of these enclosures, so I can easily swap it between two of my Macs (less problems syncing the libraries). Yeah, I think OWC has a blog article on how to move your iTunes library (or even your home directory) to an external drive like this one. ;-)

Excellent drive, simple to setup for an additional external drive, even if you are not technically inclined. If you can manage a screwdriver (included in the upgrade kit) and plug a USB cable into the back of the enclosure and other end into a USB port on your Mac, you're in business! Only thing I had to add was to write the drive capacity on the underside of the drive, so I could tell apart the 3 different drives I have now.

I would recommend this item to a friend! This review is from DIY KIT: OWC Express USB 2.0 2.5" Enclosure + 1.0TB HGST 5400RPM HDD.

Verified Buyer
Reviewer: rude Location: NJ Age: Over 65 Experience Level: Home User Owned Product: 1-3 months
Rating: 5/5 easy and fast to install December 4, 2012 Everything from ordering to installing was just as advertised. It has been running well and the upgrade from 160 Gig to 500 Gig has made life a lot easier.

I would recommend this item to a friend! This review is from DIY KIT: 500GB 7200RPM HD for MacBook, MacBook Pro (or PC Notebook)+OWC Express 2.5" Enclosure Kit.

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Reviewer: CapeJim Location: The great Midwest (Missouri) Age: Over 65 Experience Level: Power User Owned Product: less than a month
Rating: 5/5 Awesome product - from outstanding people!!! June 1, 2012 Ordered this drive/enclosure/tools kit on Friday night/Sat. morning of Memorial Day weekend, and by the following Friday a.m., I had it in my hands! Got this because my internal drive on my MacBook Pro (5,1) was getting kinda full (280-290GB of 320GB).

First thing was to put it together and see about formatting the Hitachi 500GB (16MB cache) drive. (I decided to do that and clone my internal drive first, and then later swap the drive in, using the OWC toolkit that comes with the drive & enclosure) That was easy - even if I did read the directions (pretty quick to do that, too) - and then I hooked the enclosure up to the MBP with the USB2 mini-cable that was supplied. Fired up Disk Uitility, and it recognized the drive right away. (Had me wondering if Hitachi had begun pre-formatting their drives for Macs... ;-)

The drive formatted ultra-quickly, and I decided to go ahead and clone my internal drive over to the new one, using Carbon Copy Cloner. That did take some time (well, it was a pretty full drive inside, and these larger drives store more stuff than older ones that we used to use), but no problems (other than a little impatience on my part).

The OWC Express enclosure looks great sitting next to my Mac Book Pro, and I figure that before long I will use the OWC toolkit to move the newer drive and swap it for my current internal drive (as it reaches close to its maximum). It is a very quick drive, and is very affordably priced. Another nice thing with the drive is the great support - if I have any questions or problems, I know that OWC's support team is great for answering them. (Though I've never had major problems with anything I've purchased from OWC)

OWC is great because their site can tell you when you're looking there whether a drive/memory/other accessory items will fit/be right for your Mac model. Even in the rare occasions when I can't find the info for sure, the support techs can give me an answer by email (or phone, depending on when I am checking...), and there's also live chat (which is now available all the time). Even if live chat is all tied up with other people, you can leave your question and they will get back to you with an answer. Great support!

I have bought many items from OWC, allowing me to increase the capacity and capabilities of Macs that I have owned, and being my primary source for expanding my Mac, or questions about 'Can I do this?', 'Is there a drive that will fit in my model?' and others. If OWC doesn't have the item I'm after, they may know who might - but it also may be that it isn't available much of anywhere. Great folks, very reasonable prices, super support, well worth dealing with!

I would recommend this item to a friend! This review is from DIY KIT: 500GB 7200RPM HD for MacBook, MacBook Pro (or PC Notebook)+OWC Express 2.5" Enclosure Kit.

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Reviewer: DankMedia Location: Los Angeles, CA Age: 45-54 Experience Level: Power User Owned Product: over 6 months
Rating: 5/5 Excellent Drive May 11, 2012 I have installed 3 of these drive in 3 different MacBooks and all are working great. Very easy process to transfer data and very simple swap of drives.

I would recommend this item to a friend! This review is from DIY KIT: 500GB 7200RPM HD for MacBook, MacBook Pro (or PC Notebook)+OWC Express 2.5" Enclosure Kit.

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Reviewer: Este Location: Gold River, Ca Age: 35-44 Experience Level: Home User Owned Product: less than a month
Rating: 5/5 Great Upgrade May 5, 2012 I purchased this bundle for my 13" Macbook Pro (Late 2011). I installed the drive in under 5 minutes and the old hard drive installation in the included enclosure was even easier. Works as advertised, drive is very quiet and coupled with the 8 gb ram upgrade (OWC1333DDR3S08S) there's nothing this machine can't do!

I would recommend this item to a friend! This review is from DIY KIT: 500GB 7200RPM HD for MacBook, MacBook Pro (or PC Notebook)+OWC Express 2.5" Enclosure Kit.

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Reviewer: Shrekviper
Rating: 4/5 Good Speed, Power Hungry April 23, 2012 The drive and DIY kit were great. Easy to install and clone my old drive. The drive isn't any louder than the original 250GB drive, but it does use a lot more power. I also upgraded my memory from 2GB to 6GB so that may be sucking a lot of power now. I may find a slower drive so I can get longer battery life (what I loved most about my macbook) and use this one as an external storage/backup using the enclosure kit.

I would recommend this item to a friend! This review is from DIY KIT: 750GB 7200RPM HD for MacBook, MacBook Pro (or PC Notebook)+OWC Express 2.5" Enclosure Kit.

Reviewer: MacBookPro2006 Location: NH Age: 45-54 Experience Level: IT Professional Owned Product: 1-3 months
Rating: 5/5 Great drive - upgraded Macbook Pro early 2006 (1.1) model March 7, 2012 I got the DYI upgrade kit and USB 3.0 enclosure and am very happy with the experience and especially happy to have 750 GB (up from 100 GB) internal storage.

The DIY video on this site was very helpful - I've never been inside the machine before - but with the kit and after watching the video 4-5 times I felt very confident about doing it and it went just as expected.

To do the upgrade: I cloned (with CCC) the original HD to a partition on an external 2TB backup drive, then made sure it was also backed up (Time Machine to a different partition on the 2TB drive). Then I cloned (with CCC) the original drive onto this new drive in the OWC enclosure, and finally physically swapped the two drives (~15 minutes to put the new drive in the macbook).

The only hiccup was that although i could boot off the cloned image on my 2TB external (firewire) drive, I could not boot off the cloned image on the new disk when it was external. My guess is this is due to my getting the USB 3.0 enclosure and if I had stuck with the 2.0 enclosure i would have not have hit this problem. (The problem was that when I turned the system on and held the ALT key, it saw the external drive in the enclosure but not as a boot device. That was strange, because the system had no trouble seeing the drive as a regular device when it was booted on the original HD). But since the CCC copy had gone fine I swapped the old and new HDs anyway, and the system booted up just fine on the new Hitachi disk when it was internal. So I assume the boot problem was related to the USB 3.0 enclosure. (I have not tried booting off the original 100GB disk now that it is in the enclosure to verify that).

Anyway, I didn't really need that to work as it was just to test the clone before swapping the disks.

The new disk works great as an internal drive. It seems to use less energy than the original (battery seems to last 20% or more longer). Heat seems to be about the same, system speed (boot, iPhoto, GarageBand) is good - the same as before if not better. And wow all that space! After years of juggling external drives to hold all my photos, now all my iPhoto libraries fit on the external, and I've got 500 GB of free space. What a feeling of freedom! Definitely worth the cost and effort - I feel like I've got a new system again with years of space-worry-free use ahead.

Thank you Macsales / OWC!

I would recommend this item to a friend! This review is from DIY KIT: 750GB 7200RPM HD for MacBook, MacBook Pro (or PC Notebook)+OWC Express 2.5" Enclosure Kit.

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Reviewer: Niva Location: Alpharetta Age: 25-34 Experience Level: IT Professional Owned Product: 1-3 months
Rating: 4/5 Good Upgrade from Factory Hard Drive February 7, 2012 Great hard drive upgrade from the factory default (I had 100GB on my mid 2009 MacBook Pro). You can feel the increase in speed. Of course a SSD would have been better but I wanted higher capacity for my data and virtual machines. I was already fed up carrying multiple portable drives. This drive is also more noisy, and the noise IS noticeably more prominent compared to the factory default drive. However you will get used to the noise over time (I have, in the last two months. Purchased end Dec 2011). I did not have to switch off the sudden motion detector, but I dont travel much with my comp on. Make sure you get the enclosure and the DIY kit. (a very good bargain if you are ok with the USB only option. I wanted Firewire, but it turned out to be pretty expensive. Ended up getting USB only). With the DIY kit, installation was pretty simple. Overall a worthwhile upgrade.

I would recommend this item to a friend! This review is from DIY KIT: 750GB 7200RPM HD for MacBook, MacBook Pro (or PC Notebook)+OWC Express 2.5" Enclosure Kit.

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Reviewer: pamr Location: Chile Age: 25-34 Experience Level: Power User Owned Product: less than a month
Rating: 5/5 Upgrade a mid 2009 Mac Book Pro September 3, 2011 Great product, I bought this 750Gb 7200rpm Hitachi HD, to mi MBPro because I just run out of space in the drive, the Hitachi 7K750 HD has very good reviews, and I can confirm them, it runs easy, very very quiet, the reading/writing speeds are good too. The DIY kit with the enclosure it's genius because you can use your old drive as an external HD. I totally recommend buy this drive to upgrade any MBPro, the process it's easy and there is a video that shows you how it's done. MacSales are also great, they have a awesome call center, very helpful.

I would recommend this item to a friend! This review is from DIY KIT: 750GB 7200RPM HD for MacBook, MacBook Pro (or PC Notebook)+OWC Express 2.5" Enclosure Kit.

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