Looking for HDD recommendation

I have a Macbook late 2007 and its HARD disk is dead. I'm looking for help with if you guys can suggest me a brand of HARD drive I can use on the inside. I saw ifixit.com and she a Toshiba 500 GB 2.5 MQ01ABF050. Hard drives as recommended. Is there another model?

I've seen a few different brand of Toshiba drive HARD internal as MQ01ABD050, would that work?

Help, please.

This depends on how much storage you need.  You can spend with a HARD drive classic if you need a lot of storage up to 1 TB, or if you want you can go with an SSD of speed. You can get a HARD drive of 1 TB for what it can cost to buy a 250 GB SSD.  You can get the SSD more great but costs as much as your computer is interesting.

If you are interested in an SSD is a good starting point: https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/ssd/owc you do not have to buy from them, but it will tell you everything that is involved with the installation of an SSD.

For a HARD disk, I went with a Hitachi model in my MacBook.  I read reviews of web on sites like Amazon when purchasing technology (keeping in mind the people who do not have problems with a model are less likely to view only those who do and deserves to be done reading the negative comments to see if their complaint is justified), so any model will have some negative reviews.  For portable players with the ability, I wanted THAT HGST seemed to have the best odds.

If you go for a HARD drive one other thing to consider is the rotation speed. Your old computer has a drive 5400 RPM in there. This consumes less energy and work more cost but, making it slower.  If you do not have to be also considering the battery life or temperature, you could install a 7200 RPM drive.

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