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Can I use the hard drive I bought for my Dell in my MacBook Pro?

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Recently I bought a hard drive to upgrade my Dell Latitude D820 notebook, now I am thinking instead of upgrading my Dell Latitude I should upgrade my Macbook pro!

My question to you guys is, can I use the hard drive I bought for my dell system in Mac book pro? I have 17" MacBook Pro 2.4GHz Core2Duo.

my HD's spec is as follows:

Performance Specifications    
    Rotational Speed    7,200 RPM (nominal)
    Buffer Size    16 MB
    Average Latency    5.50 ms (nominal)

Seek Times
    Read Seek Time    12.0 ms
    Track-To-Track Seek Time    2.0 ms (average)

Transfer Rates
    Buffer To Host (Serial ATA)    3 Gb/s (Max)

Physical Specifications    
    Formatted Capacity    250,059 MB
    Capacity    250 GB
    Interface    SATA 3 Gb/s

Physical Dimensions    
English
    Height    0.374 Inches
    Length    3.94 Inches
    Width    2.75 inches
    Weight    0.22 Pounds

Metric
    Height    9.5 mm
    Length    100 mm
    Width    69.85 mm
    Weight    99 gm

Environmental Specifications    
Acoustics
    Idle Mode    22 dBA (average)
    Seek Mode 0    25 dBA (average)

Temperature (English)
    Operating    32° F to 140° F
    Non-operating    -40° F to 158° F

Temperature (Metric)
    Operating    -0° C to 60° C
    Non-operating    -40° C to 70° C

Humidity
    Operating    8% to 95% Non-condensing
    Non-operating    5-95% RH non-condensing

Altitude (English)
    Operating    -1,000 feet to 10,000 feet
    Non-operating    -1,000 feet to 40,000 feet

Altitude (Metric)
    Operating    -305M to 3,050M
    Non-operating    -305M to 12,200M

Vibration
    Operating    0.00459 g²/Hz (10 to 500 Hz)
    Non-operating    0.05102 g²/Hz (10 to 500 Hz)

Electrical Specifications    
Current Requirements
    5 VDC
    Read/Write    500 mA
    Idle    400 mA
    Standby    50 mA
    Sleep    30 mA

    Power Dissipation
    Read/Write    2.50 Watts
    Idle    0.85 Watts
    Standby    0.25 Watts
    Sleep    0.15 Watts
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Wow, That's a lot of tech spec!

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Yes, providing it is the same type, (2.5." SATA).

If the hard drive has Windows on it you will have to wipe it and install Mac OS X first.

The hard drive must have enough space to hold Mac OS X.

You should clone your existing hard drive onto the other one so you can swap it and still have your OS, files and settings.

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This drive will work, since it is 9.5 mm tall, but I believe there are some taller 12 mm drives that won't fit.

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as long as its a 2.5" SATA drive, you are good to go.

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wait how do i know its sata drive

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Along what QEII student said, make sure to reformat it. It's also a good idea to just clone your drive from the one already in the MBP, that makes not only the transition easier, but saves you the step of installing Mac OS X. I suggest either Super Duper or Carbon Copy Cloner, both are excellent (free i believe) tools for cloning drives

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Yes, all you need is to completely format it first. I strongly advise that you do full format during the installation process. With this, the system would format and scan the drive for errors.

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hello , i have few HDD for dell server i notice the connector its not same as standard HDD for Asus server so i order special connector and i connect but Asus still not detect those HDD any help ?

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