how can I get 2tb in a new macbook pro

all 4 platter 2TB 2.5" HD are 15.2mm THICK. theres utterly NO WAY a single HD will fit in any macbook like that.

only option is a 1TB in the internal bay, and removal of the superdrive DVD/CD player and installing a secondary 1TB HD in the "optibay"

See OWC for the optibay option.

http://www.mcetech.com/optibay/

2.5" hard drive thickness and capacity

7mm = 500gig

9.5mm = 500gig up to 1TB

12.5mm = 1.5TB

15.2mm = 2TB

(however there are new HD just out that are 5mm = 500gig and 7mm = 1TB and 9.5mm = 1.5TB)

You have the POTENTIAL of 3TB in your macbook between 2 HD, however those drives are western digital, which I and most here wouldnt recommend. Also they just came out, and their reliability is UNKNOWN.

its bigger, NOT thicker.

big isnt the issue, its thickness to cram a 15.2mm thick HD in just isnt going to work.

Oh, as for a SECOND HARD DRIVE, any of them will work, 13" , 15" any of them.

not the retina of course, only the non-retina macbook Pro

yes, that will work, lots of people running same. Its an easy mod. Lots of youtube vids on doing same. Obviously however the primary HD bay NEEDS to be the boot drive. Some people have made that mistake, oddly.

Grab a couple Hitachi/Toshiba 1TB drives, steer clear of western digitals.

seagate consumer grade HD is best in class in 3.5" NOT 2.5"

Most experts agree Hitachi/Toshiba 2.5" (both made by Hitachi) are best in class . Same as used by Apple in the current macbook Pros.

Sorry i know this post is old but came across it when curious of the maximum capacity of MBPs but this your post about HDD bays may need up dating, You can use the macs built in Bios through System Preferences to select which drive you want to boot from but if however you are using Windows 8 this drive seems to have to be in the primary bay due to some sort of OS privelige

12.5mm thick 3platter 1.5TB drives is the MAX

t0mr0bins0n wrote:

but this your post about HDD bays may need up dating,

its about PHYSICAL size, 2TB 15.2mm wont fit, has nothing to do with BIOS

2TB drives that fit in MacBook Pros might be available now! I'm not sure where to buy this yet, but this 2TB Seagate Spinpoint M9T is only 9.5mm thick:

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/seagate-samsung-hdd-spinpoint-m9t,24997.html

Scott

I have one of these M9T drives & yes they do fit in the macbook pro (mbp 17" 2011), but I am having issues w/ the hard drive staying mounted. Will only stay connected for 45-60 mins, then it will disconnect all the sudden. Has anyone found out why or how to correct this?

Did you resolve the internal hard drive staying mounted? I've just bought one and had a similar problem - external it runs pretty well but when installing internally, it isn't happy. I couldn't even reformat the drive when mounted internally but once attached as an external, no issues.

I'm returning the drive for another but wonder that its more a compatibility issue rather than a defective product?

Thanks

I have a 2011 MacBook Pro 17. I use the OWC data doubler with a 1.5TB disc where the superdrive went. Everything worked great... until it didn't. Both the primary drive and second drive now will not stay mounted. I have tried several replacement drives. The drives that didn't work in the MacBook Pro work fine on a USB outboard drive bay. I had an Apple licensed technician run full diagnostics and got nothing.

So.. I had 2TB. Looking at a 2014 MacBook Pro 15 Retina. There is no 2.5 inch drive bay in this machine. No user serviceable parts. I saw the breakdown and the SSD disk is just a strip of memory chips. The largest config is 1TB. So I will have to pay $3000 for my smaller screen and cut half my 1.2TB iTunes library. Good grief.

If anyone knows a fix for the drive unmounting (usually after about 20 minutes), please let me know.

Just telling you guys, that 2011-12 MacBook Pros does NOT support Sata 3 interface in the optical bay.

Apple tells you they do, also sys info tells you too, however they don't. If you use them, there will be I/O problems. Sata 2 interface can be used without problems in the DVD bay. The main bay, can be used for both Sata 3 and 2.

13' laptops CAN support Sata 3 in the optibay too, but 15 and 17' models cannot.

I have a late 17' model, and I am having the same issue. I want 2TB in the optibay, but seems there aren't any sata 2 interfaced drives out there.

Also, I have to mention that there WAS no point of drive makers to use Sata 3 on HDD's, since a HDD is only capable of maximum 180MB~ /s reading speed, which Sata 2 could easily handle. (Sata 2 has a cap of around at 330MB/s and Sata 3 is around 660MB/s, thats why apple uses PCIE SSD's in their laptops now, to be able to achieve 900MB-1GB/s speeds.

I have a 2tb internal harddrive in my Macbook Pro 13" Late 2011. It works fine. It was the right thickness too.