Solid performance and reliability for everyday computing
Massive capacity,Slim design
Height:9.5mm
750GB Capacity
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2.5" Form FactorThe 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 InterfaceThe 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 DriveThe bare drive features a high performance 5400 RPM hard drive with a total capacity of 750GB so you can store your movies, music, applications and documents for easy sharing with your friends and even back up your system.
9.5 mm height Massive capacity With SATA interfaces, 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. Advanced Format Technology - Technology being adopted by WD and other drive manufacturers to increase media format efficiencies, thus enabling larger drive capacities
Works in RAID, slow but steady.1/11/2012 11:22:59 PM
Pros: They work in RAID and are steady in performance.
Cons: They are steady, but slow compared to 3.5" 7200rpm drives. Even the random r/w speed is slower, which shouldn't be the case for 2.5" drives. They're cruise along slowly.
Overall Review: I had four of these lying around from upgrading four laptops to SSD, so I decided to utilize them for a personal project and put them as the system partition in RAID10 configuration on Windows SBS 2008 running Exchange 2007, IIS website, and serves to backup the SSD which stores the Minecraft server.
Pros: lots of space for PS3 games, works on all of them so far....
Cons: makes a clicking noise and spools up and down a lot, made me think the drive was dieing if not for a friend has the same drive, and same clicking. notice some lag not a deal breaker at all, wish it was faster.
Pros: I've been waiting for a standard size hard drive over 640GB for months now, and as soon as heard about this and saw it available I bought it. Installed in my laptop without a hitch, and definitely an improvement over my 500GB before. Absolutely no problems and as people have said it seems to be faster than the other hard drive. Also at 110 it is a great deal for anyone needing more storage in a portable package.
Cons: It didn't come out earlier.
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4/28/2011 10:58:40 AM
Pros: Fast, quiet, spacious, runs cool. Replaced a 7200.4 Seagate Momentus 500GB in my mid-2010 15" Macbook Pro. Noticeably less vibration.
Cons: Doesn't feel quite as 'snappy' as a 7200 rpm drive, but that might be my imagination.
Overall Review: For those of you that are downrating this product; older Macbooks and Macbook Pros with an nVidia chipset (the ones with the Core2 Duo processors, circa-2009, 2010 for the 13" models) WILL have a problem with any drive that has a motion sensor. Period. Drive stuttering, system freezes, stalling, 'beachballs' etc.
I've seen this problem with Macs, Dells and a few other systems, and each of them had an nVidia chipset. So if you fall into one of those categories, pass this one by and get a drive WITHOUT a motion sensor built in.
Pros: Good value, good size
As silent and fast as original MacMini HD
Cons: None so far
Overall Review: Put that into a MacMini and was concerned that it might not be as quiet as the original drive based on the other reviews. I'm pleasantly surprised. No problems either under OS-X or Win7
Overall Review: for all of those buying this to upgrade there ps3 there is one thing that they do not tell u. when u install the ps3 softwear it must be the same version as the one on the old HD. ie if u have 5.56 u must update it before removing, or download and instal that version. it will not except a newer version than the old hd had. hope this helps
Pros: They work in RAID and are steady in performance.
Cons: They are steady, but slow compared to 3.5" 7200rpm drives. Even the random r/w speed is slower, which shouldn't be the case for 2.5" drives. They're cruise along slowly.
Overall Review: I had four of these lying around from upgrading four laptops to SSD, so I decided to utilize them for a personal project and put them as the system partition in RAID10 configuration on Windows SBS 2008 running Exchange 2007, IIS website, and serves to backup the SSD which stores the Minecraft server.