Hard Drive Capacity for Late 2011 Macbook Pro

Which model MBP do you have (for instance, 'late 2011')? Installing a new hard drive and RAM is a fairly simple process. I don't know anything about the hard drive you've selected but I do know that it will fit into your hard drive bay - the 750GB indicates the amount of storage. While you can use two hard drives, one in the hard drive bay and one in the optical bay, I wouldn't recommend it in your case. You also don't say how much RAM you have now - we'll need to know your model before we can recommend how much RAM you can install.

Please get back with your model - then someone will be able to tell you your options and how to go about installing your new drive.

Clinton

Well, alrighty, then...

What I'm assuming that you want to do with the WD internal is to take out your optical drive and place the WD in its place. Easily accomplished. Visit Other World Computing and look for a data doubler optical caddy... you install it and put your new WD internal in its place.

While you're at OWC, you might want to look at their RAM kits for your model. You can install (as I have) up to 16GB of RAM - 4GB is just not enough, 8GB is the 'sweet spot' and 16GB, the maximum, will allow you to run memory intensive apps concurrently and have less disk thrashing using swap space, etc. I would also look at memory from Crucial - but OWC and Crucial are likely 'tied' in their support for Macs. OWC also has detailed instructions and videos about replacing your optical drive with the WD hard drive - and you can find numerous videos of the same on YouTube.

Good luck - call with any more questions!

Clinton

I am seriously concerned about my SATA Drive. My Lion mirrored "mgangirocks" right up until Volumes:

Volumes:

disk0s1:

Capacity: 209.7 MB (209,715,200 bytes)

BSD Name: disk0s1

Content: EFI

disk0s2:

Capacity: 749.3 GB (749,296,615,424 bytes)

BSD Name: disk0s2

Content: Apple_CoreStorage

Recovery HD:

Capacity: 650 MB (650,002,432 bytes)

Available: 93.4 MB (93,401,088 bytes)

Writable: Yes

File System: Journaled HFS+

BSD Name: disk0s3

Mount Point: /Volumes/Recovery HD

Content: Apple_Boot

I was about to purchase

Crucial 16GB Kit (8GBx2) DDR3L-1333 SODIMM Memory for Mac

CT3373674

• DDR3L PC3L-10600 • CL=9 • Unbuffered • NON-ECC • DDR3L-1333 • 1.35V • 1024Meg x 64 • lead free • halogen free • for Mac
• upgrade for Apple MacBook Pro (17-inch, Late 2011) system.

But now I am freaking out that maybe it would be wasting money... Can you help explain what has happened? Thanks. Brenda

"I am freaking out that maybe it would be wasting money"

Why are you freakin out about $20?

"Can you help explain what has happened?"

What has happened where?

If you have a late 2011 MBP, I'd strongly suggest that you invest in one of these and use it faithfully:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005C31HC0?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=ox_sc_sfl_t itle_10&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER

OWC (macsales.com) has good how-to videos for various MacBook Pro upgrades. Check them out to see if you are comfortable swapping in a new HD.

http://eshop.macsales.com/installvideos/

FWIW I'd probably get a fast 1TB HGST drive rather than the 750 GB WD drive.

I am seriously concerned about my SATA Drive. My Lion mirrored "mgangirocks" right up until Volumes:

Volumes:

disk0s1:

Capacity: 209.7 MB (209,715,200 bytes)

BSD Name: disk0s1

Content: EFI

disk0s2:

Capacity: 749.3 GB (749,296,615,424 bytes)

BSD Name: disk0s2

Content: Apple_CoreStorage

Recovery HD:

Capacity: 650 MB (650,002,432 bytes)

Available: 93.4 MB (93,401,088 bytes)

Writable: Yes

File System: Journaled HFS+

BSD Name: disk0s3

Mount Point: /Volumes/Recovery HD

Content: Apple_Boot

I was about to purchase

Crucial 16GB Kit (8GBx2) DDR3L-1333 SODIMM Memory for Mac

CT3373674

• DDR3L PC3L-10600 • CL=9 • Unbuffered • NON-ECC • DDR3L-1333 • 1.35V • 1024Meg x 64 • lead free • halogen free • for Mac
• upgrade for Apple MacBook Pro (17-inch, Late 2011) system.

But now I am freaking out that maybe it would be wasting money... Can you help explain what has happened? Thanks. Brenda

• Carl, be nice.

The 16GB kit runs about $79, and I thought it was a great price.

The SATA drive is over $329, $200 shy of one quarter hour tuition.

I am Adobe intensive and have five classes this term.

If the problem is a hard drive then $79 is diesel fuel for the month.

I don't know how to put any of that hardware together but $79 is easier to find than $425+/-.

Only researched that SATA because every vendor was recommending a SATA also.

I am happy to have the machibe but never new the negative backstory.

Where have you bought DDR3L for $20?

I need to upgrade the DDR3 Memory from the out-of-the-box 2GBx2 to the 8GBx2 and can only fine DDR3L. Nearly every Geek Site online suggests the L will not make any difference if the machine does not call for it. Those same sites, specifically Mac oriented, also recommend the 8 vs 4GBx2 Apple stated as maximum.

After so many hard drive failures, I am ready to purchase another machine. However, Crucial seems to be reputable and the best resource for Mac users. They have an internal hard drive too, but changing the memory slots will be a first for me.

As an interim work-around, I purchased an external 5GB, wiped it, scanned it with ClamAVx, then created one partition and it is the dedicated scratch disk for all my Adobe programs. So far that has kept my MacBook Pro from getting hotted up and runs great.

If I can get the permissions problem resolved, I won't need a new machine.

Hope that helps. Brenda