Where to find available downloads (firmware, software, drivers, etc) for WD drives based on Product ID (PID).END Important: For Consumer Internal Hard Drives, Mobile and Desktop there are no firmware updates, as the latest Firmware is installed at manufacturing. For Enterprise Internal Hard Drives, please contact your sales representative, FAE, Distributor and or your OEM manufacture. Please use the table below as a reference to available downloads for WD products by PID. Click on product name then downloads tab for available Software. Model Prefixes Product Name VID PID Disk LUN Inquiry Data Product ID WDBAAF WDBAAG 1058 110 My Book 1110 WDBAAE 1058 070C My Passport 070C WDBAAC 1058 070B My Passport 070B WDBAAA WDBAAB WDBABM WDBABW 1058 070A My Passport 070A WDBAAJ WDBACH 1058 1112 My Book 1112 WDBAAH 1058 1111 My Book 1111 In case the answer did not answer your question, you can always visit the for help from WD users.
First I have to say that you find yourself at a really unfortunate time to buy hard drives. With the flooding in Thailand hard drive prices have skyrocketed. To start with, the bare minimums are that you need a SATA drive - either SATA 3.0gbps (also called SATA II) or SATA 6.0gbps (also called SATA III) - in a 2.5' form factor. Here's what you need to ask yourself: Would you rather have a whole lot of storage or lightning-fast speed?
If you store a lot of music or videos on your computer and you need a large capacity drive then you're going to need a standard 2.5' HDD so that you can get them in the 500GB+ range. I would recommend a 7200RPM drive, though. Your old drive is a 5400RPM drive and 7200RPM drives will be faster. I recommend the Samsung Spinpoint MP4. It's a (relatively) cheap 7200RPM 500GB drive and I don't know much about that particular drive, but the Spinpoint drives are known for being pretty quiet. ($109) SAMSUNG Spinpoint MP4 If you don't need a lot of storage space then you can get an SSD. The difference in speed between an HDD and an SSD is like night and day.
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If you don't mind a capacity of 64GB or 128GB then you will love an SSD. I don't have any specific experience using an SSD with OSX, but all the articles I've read says it should work and Apple offers them in some of their own machines. I recommend either the Crucial M4 or the Samsung 830. I own an M4 in a desktop system it's been incredible. ($109) Crucial M4 64GB ($209) Crucial M4 128GB ($100) Samsung 830 Series 64GB ($200) Samsung 830 Series 128GB.
Thank you for the detailed response. Unfortunately I was forced to make a decision sooner than I anticipated. I went ahead and installed the Western Digital Scorpio Black - 500GB/7200 RPM. Bought it on Amazon for $134. I was hesitant to go with the SSD - had read scattered reports of problems with macs. I had not run into info on the Samsung on Apple forums but I will hang onto your advice for friends and family. Hopefully, this WD will last a while!
Interestingly, I haven't really noticed an increase in speed yet. My MBP has always been speedier and more responsive than any PCs at work. Thanks again! Just want to share this story.
I have a Mid2009 Macbook Pro (MBP) - model A1278 - Got the questionmark sign by starting up the laptop - Disk Utilities didn't reconized the HDD - Opened the MBP, removed the HDD, put it in a External Sata drive case - Connected the drive via USB to the MBP - Disk was reconized by Disk Utilities after starting up with Mac OS Dvd - Repaired disk - Put back the disk, but still question mark sign - Called Icentre and they told me that the cable from the Mainboard to the HDD might be defective. The SATA driver on the mainboard hardly never fail (they told me) - Purchased a new HDD cable via Ebay (nr 821-0814-A) - Replaced the HDD cable to the original HDD and laptop restarted. Due to the fault, the HDD might have damages.
I bought the following disk: Seagate Harddisk 2.5' 500GB, SATA300, Hybrid 4GB, ST95005620AS Yesterday after all software installations I got all the time the spinning colored wheel, but today my MBP is working fine and I hope it stays like this. Hope this info is helpfull for others who have the same problem as I had.
Most of the time you got the questionmark sign, you software is corrupted or your HDD cable is defect. MBP Mid2009 can go up to a max of 500Gb (is what Icentre told me and is what you can find on the internet) Succes!