5 reasons to upgrade to a 500gb drive in your Macbook

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Hitachi recently released their 500gb laptop drive, which is a perfect fit in the Macbook Pro, coincidentally. Here are five reasons you should consider an upgrade.

It’s cheap. The drive is currently only $229 from TigerDirect!
It’s easy. Using this guide as a reference, you can have the drive installed within half an hour. If you are installing in a different Mac, navigate the iFixIt site to find your specific computer - they have dozens of upgrade guides available.
It’s big! The drive is almost double the size of the largest drive available from Apple (300gb), giving you space to store even more movies, music and pictures than ever before.
It’s convenient. No more carrying around external drives or tons of discs. You can keep your installation media or even complete DVDs on your system and never even notice the space is gone.
It’s expandable. You can use your old drive as a backup disk! By putting it in an external hard drive enclosure, you can leave the old one at home or the office - this way you have a time machine ready backup disk, ready to go!

I did this upgrade myself earlier this week, on my 17″ Macbook Pro. It took about 20 minutes and was much easier than I anticipated. Truly a great and worthwhile upgrade - one that I wholeheartedly recommend.