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Manufacturer Limited Warranty period (parts): 3 years
Manufacturer Limited Warranty period (labor): 3 years
With available SATA interface, WD Scorpio Blue drives offer high-performance, low power consumption, and cool operation, perfect for notebooks and other portable devices. Pick the drive that suits your needs with the confidence in knowing that all WD Scorpio Blue drives are built to the highest standards of quality and reliability.
Tech Level: somewhat high - Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
Pros: 9.5mm height to fit all common laptop configurations. full 5400rpm spindle speed. dual platter, 320GB per platter areal density. nice and quiet in my 15" uMBP.
Cons: i just wish it were a 1TB, 7200rpm drive with 16MB cache and a low 4ms latency. ;)
Other Thoughts: why does this one win against the 750GB drive for the same price?
superior access times through higher areal density per platter and (to a much lesser extent) the faster spindle speed.
the 750GB drive is 12.5mm high due to it's inclusion of a third platter. 750GB divided by 3 platters equals 250GB per platter.
this 640GB drive is 9.5mm and thus only has 2 platters. 640GB divided by 2 platters equals 320GB per platter.
therefore, the increased areal density of the 640GB drive's platters results in reduced seek times due to reduced drive head movement for both reads and writes. to a lesser extent, the 2 platter configuration also allows for the full 5400rpm spindle speed with less vibration than the 750GB's 5200rpm speed; again, this helps with access times.
if you need the space and have the room, get the 750GB. if you want the faster performing drive and a 500GB drive was enough room, the 640GB drive will give you more performance for the buck.
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PS3 Compatible 640GB Drive
Reviewed By: Jesse on 10/12/2009
Tech Level: high - Ownership: less than 1 day
This user purchased this item from Newegg
Pros: Standard 9.5mm design, low noise, relatively decent price
Cons: 5,400 rpm, not a huge leap over 500gb for the price
Other Thoughts: From the PS3 perspective, I have high hopes for this drive. I don't forsee the spindle speed as being particularly bothersome, as the stock PS3 hard drive was a 5,400rpm drive as well. I held out on buying a 500gb drive in hopes of a 750gb or 1tb drive coming soon, but my little 60gb drive filled up faster than those two could reach the common 9.5mm height. Actual formatted capacity under the PS3 OS is 596gb, with 529gb available following a bone-stock format under firmware 3.01.
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Cons: Now it doesn't work. It just died on me after only 3 months. In the meantime I'm back on my 120GB hard drive. I lost quite a few things, but thankfully had backed up most of the important things a week before. Time to contact WD because I'm past the Newegg warranty period.
Other Thoughts: Well... I would probably go for a reliable 500GB hard drive now rather than worry about another one of these. But, my guess is that I can't get my money back and I'll be locked into this model.
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1st one failed 2nd one works
Reviewed By: Willith on 3/17/2010
Tech Level: high - Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
Pros: Fast Size Price
Cons: 1st failed after 40 days Noise
Other Thoughts: I'm on my 2nd drive, the 1st one failed after 40 days. I purchased this drive to replace the smaller drive in my ThinkPad T61p and so I could upgrade to Windows 7 Pro. I was just about to erase and reuse my old drive when the drive started to take a long time to boot and open applications. The RMA process was pretty easy, but I had to pay for return shipping and I like how WD offered cross shipping. The 2nd one is working fine after 20 days, but I'm keeping my fingers crossed and my old XP disk is set aside for now. ;)
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very fast
Reviewed By: BD on 3/15/2010
Tech Level: high - Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
Pros: this is a very fast drive and I'm extremely happy with it. Much faster then the 500GB version as that one died on me after only 36 days of usage. I'm using this drive with a Dell XPS M1210 and I have no issues at all. Love all the space.
Cons: it was way too expensive at the time I purchased this but price has dropped now.
Other Thoughts: Drive is very quiet and gets a 5.9 score in Win7. Hope it lasts a lot longer then the 500GB WD drive.
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Model
Brand
Western Digital
Series
Scorpio Blue
Model
WD6400BEVT
Packaging
Bare Drive
Performance
Interface
SATA 3.0Gb/s
Capacity
640GB
Cache
8MB
Average Latency
5.5ms
RPM
5400 RPM
Physical Spec
Form Factor
2.5"
Manufacturer Warranty
Parts
3 years limited
Labor
3 years limited
Introduction
With available SATA interface, WD Scorpio Blue drives offer high-performance, low power consumption, and cool operation, perfect for notebooks and other portable devices. Pick the drive that suits your needs with the confidence in knowing that all WD Scorpio Blue drives are built to the highest standards of quality and reliability.
Highlights
2.5" Form Factor The Western Digital Scorpio Blue internal hard drive is specifically designed for notebook computers equipped with 2.5" SATA drive bays.
SATA 3.0 Gb/s Interface The 2.5” SATA internal notebook hard drive features the next-generation SATA II interface supporting up to 3.0 Gb/s data transfer rates, Native Command Queuing (NCQ) and hot-pluggable point-to-point connections for optimum performance, efficiency, convenience and flexibility.
High Performance Hard Drive The bare drive features a high performance 5400 RPM hard drive with a total capacity of 640GB so you can store your movies, music, applications and documents for easy sharing with your friends and even back up your system.
Reviewed By: oakie on 10/10/2009
Tech Level: somewhat high - Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
