Mac hard drive upgrade: faster and uses less power

Momentus72002While I’m still waiting for my MacBook Pro to return from the repair shop, my friend Ben is rolling up his sleeves and upgrading the hard drive in his notebook. He just removed the 120 GB 5400RPM drive and replaced it with a $200 Seagate Momentus 7200 RPM drive sporting 160 GB of capacity. Thinking that he’d get increased drive performance at the cost of less battery life, Ben ran some benchmarks with XBench and whaddya know: he’s seeing less power usage on the new drive, along with the faster seek and transfer speeds! For all of the steps, details and benchmarks, hop on over to his personal site while I wait and see if my Mac arrives back home today.

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