Boost Your Apple MacBook Performace
MacBook Mobile Hard Drive Replacement
Your Apple laptop's factory installed hard drive may be on it's last legs - mechanical spinning-platter drives all fail, eventually. Or perhaps you're simply running out of disk space to store your video and music files on the original drive that originally came with your MacBook, Mac mini, iMac or Macintosh Pro. If tragedy strikes, or you simply need more storage space - It's an excellent opportunity to upgrade to a far faster, better performing storage option.| 2.5" Fast Mac Laptop Drives | Seagate Hybrid SSD + Platter Drive | MacBook SSD Upgrade |
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WD Hi-Performance BLACK Series 7200 RPM + 16MB Cache 
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SSD Hybrid 500GB + 4GB SSD 2.5" 7200 RPM + 32MB Cache 
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OCZs Fastest SSD Ever Vertex 3 SATA III 
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These MacBook disk drive upgrade recommendations outperform Apple's standard drive configurations: They have LARGE on-board cache, Faster drive RPM's, and as with a Hybrid Drive - the best of both high-capacity mechanical and a small bit of performance boosting Solid-State drive technology rolled into one. SSD or Hybrids are the future of mass storage for those who want to give their Apple laptop the best bang for the buck.
MacBook Data Migration : Hard Disk Enclosures
For $20-40 an external drive enclosure, case or drive dock can help you rapidly Clone, Copy or Transfer your Mac environment onto a new upgrade drive FIRST. Many don't even require a screwdriver at all to connect the drive and copy our data. You can then boot your Mac from it, make sure everything is AOK before you begin any dissassembly needed to exchange drive mechanisms. For an Apple MacBook hard drive swap, there's many How-To's available. A quick Google search will help you locate illustrated step-by-step, or videos of properly accessing your Mac laptop's old hard drive.| 2.5" Combo FW-USB 2.0 Enclosure | SuperSpeed USB 3.0 Drive Dock | FireWire+USB2 3.5" Drive Case |
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Laptop SATA Drive Case USB2 + FW 400 Interface 
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USB3 Instant Laptop Drive Dock USB 2.0 Backward Compatible 
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MacAlly Combo 3.5" Case FireWire - USB - eSata Enlosure 
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The above are for SATA I and II hard disk drives. Now obsolete Macs used the ATA-IDE interface. Many of the disk drive cases are now SuperSpeed USB 3.0 compatible and are your wisest future-looking purchase option. Backward compatibility is assured for older USB 1 and 2.0 - and will perform even better when Apple starts selling Macs with USB 3 ports in 2012 and beyond. But until Apple supports USB 3.0, these will work fine with older, legacy USB 2.0 and 1.1 port Macs.
Solid-State Drives are platform neutral: Windows or Mac OSX - they don't care. Just optimally reformat the drive for Mac using Apple's Disk Utility and you're good to go. For all recent Intel Macs, that means a GUID Partition Table, Mac OS X Extended Format, Journaling Enabled. The fastest SSD's in 2011 are now sporting 6Gbps SATA III interfaces - but are backwards compatible with the earlier SATA I - and SATA II speed interface Apple is still using in current Macs.
