When my macbook started to play up towards the end of last year I did what all sensible people do and ignored the problems in the hope they would fix themselves. This worked for a while, but eventually I had to bite the bullet and take it to the Apple store to find out what was wrong. It turned out my hard drive was basically caput and living on borrowed time. Rather than pay Apple's prices for repair and replacement I decided to attempt to sort it out myself. After a bit of research online I decided that I may as well upgrade the hard drive a bit. I went for this Western Digital drive as I'd had Western Digital external drives previously and always been ...  Read the complete review

Anyone who has a laptop can attest to the fact that no matter how much space your harddrive has, it will always become full just as you need to download a video for work or rip one of your favorite CDs. Worst of all, when you get down to the last 10GB or so your computer will start to freak out, slow down and generally act up until you clear some space. This happened to me recently on my old laptop which has a 250GB hard drive, between downloading HD youtube videos and my sizable music collection it was full to the brim. Finally I had to succumb to upgrading it to save myself from buying a whole new laptop! Thankfully hard drive prices have dropped like a ...  Read the complete review