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Upgrade your storage

Running out of room on that MacBook? Have you started editing 1080p HD content in iMovie on that MacBook Pro? You’re probably going to need a big honkin’ yet fast hard drive in there. Have I got a solution for you!

Often, especially with laptop drives, speed, capacity and low cost were a situation where you pick two. You’re not going to get the third. Even if you begged. A lot.

Until now that is. 

The folks over at Western Digital have come up with a crackin’ hard drive for your MacBook or MacBook Pro with the Western Digital Scorpio Blue. It’s 1TB (a terabyte!), speedy and will set you back round about $100.

One more time for emphasis: $100.

Say what?! That’s right, the trifecta of cost, speed and capacity is here for the masses. NewEgg will send it to you for $105 shipped if you’re hot to just go buy it. If you don’t want to take my word for it, HotHardware has the skinny on the performance. (Warning, you best speak geek. If phrases like “areal density” scare you, just take my word for it. It’s a good drive.) They compare it to the venerable Western Digital Scorpio Black drive. Granted, they use Windows benchmarks, but they will translate fairly well to the Mac side of the house.

So, since you’re not going to get any use out of it with it sitting in a box once it arrives, head over to iFixIt to see how to cram it in there. If you search Apple’s support site properly (e.g. “macbook hard drive replacement), you can find instructions there too.