I HAVE A MBP LATE 2008 2.53GHZ CAN I UPGRADE THE HDD 320,5400RPM, AT A BUS SPEED 3GIGABYTE TO 2TB HDD,7200RPM, AT A BUS SPEED OF 6GIGABYTE?

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I HAVE A MBP LATE 2008 2.53GHZ CAN I UPGRADE THE HDD 320,5400RPM, AT A BUS SPEED 3GIGABYTE TO 2TB HDD,7200RPM, AT A BUS SPEED OF 6GIGABYTE?

PLEASE I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW IF THIS IS POSSIBLY DONE WITH NO PROBLEMS OF ANY KIND....I HAVE A MBP LATE 2008.2.53GHZ,4G MEMORY,3230 HDD HITACHI @ 5400RPM,3GIGABIT LINK SPEED @ 1.5GIGABIT NEGOTIATED LINK SPEED ,6MB CAHES,NVIDIA GEFORCE 9600M GT/9400M,1.07GHZ BUS SPEED,INTEL CORE 2DUO......CAN UPGRADE THIS TO A 2TB HDD @ 7200RPM,6GIGABIT LINK SPEED,NEGOTIATED LINK SPEED 3GIGABIT,8G MEMORY?

MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.3)

Posted on May 3, 2013 4:25 AM

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Ralph Landry1

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May 3, 2013 4:28 AM in response to zoduwa

You can upgrade the hard drive and even install solid state drives, SSD, but you cannot increase the bus speed as that is fixed by the logic board. You can get an idea of guaranteed compatible drives by checking the equipment offered by OWC, http://www.macsales.com so you have ideas of what is guaranteed to work.

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May 3, 2013 4:30 AM in response to zoduwa

You might want to turn your caps lock key off, as it makes your post very hard to read. But yes, you can put any other 2.5" SATA drive into your MBP - it is limited to the 3GB/s of the bus, though. And you can certainly put 8GB of RAM in there, too.

Matt

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