| | [* black] Standard Phillips screws secure the 500 GB Toshiba hard drive, meaning upgrading to a larger drive will be easy after you decide to start [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raw_image_format|shooting RAW]. |
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| | [* black] 2.5" profile and a spinning platter? This hard drive is ~~old news~~ still perfectly good for most users' needs. |
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| | [* icon_note] We were curious about Apple's choice to use a proprietary SSD in the MacBook Pro with Retina display rather than the standard 2.5" SATA drive. Disregarding the speed difference—after all, [http://www.crucial.com/store/ssd.aspx|SSDs have been around for a while]—the choice of the proprietary SSD is motivated by size. |
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| | [* black] The 2.5" SATA drive in this MacBook Pro is almost three times as thick as the proprietary SSD in the MacBook Pro with Retina display: 9.45 mm compared to 3.16 mm, respectively. |
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