The processors were the first to acquire enough power to break this myth. It is now the turn of the hard drives whose capacity has soared these last years.
Thus, Samsung now proposes the Spinpoint M6, a 2,5 " SATA disk that reaches 500 GB in a thickness of 9,5mm, that fits well the MacBook Pro 15 " and MacBook. This disk has 8 MB of cache and spins at 5400 rpm.
Our partner Macway provided a specimen to us, we assembled it in a MacBook Pro 15 " Santa Rosa.
As you note it, the disk is only 465,76 GB once fitted into the machine.
We quickly tested it, Its data transfer for read/write are rather good, exceeding the 65 MB/s at the beginning of disk, that is to say 15 of more than Western Digital 250 GB 5400 rpm which was inside the machine before.
Unless we put our ear onto the machine, it is inaudible even while being accessed.
Of course, the new generation of hard drives 7200 rpm of 320 GB must be more powerful, but if you make the choice based on the capacity, its performances will be amply sufficient.
The ideal of course is that Apple proposes one day to us a machine with two hard disks, (supplying a peripheral optical reader). In this case, one could dream of a SSD like disk system and a disk of 500 GB for the data. It would be in this case a strong competitor to the desktop machines!
You will find the article (in French) illustrating the change of disk of a MacBook Pro to the following address:http://www.hardmac.com/articles/61/
