Question 1

Will this work in a Dell Inspiron 15R?

Accepted Answer

This should work just fine. It is a SATA drive and is a 2.5 inch. there shouldn't be any issues. The one I just got was for a different Inspiron model but loaded with no issues.

Question 2

My Toshiba A25-S279 laptop has a Western Digital Scorpio HD (WD2500BEVE) which has just failed. I would like to replace it with a WD 2500BEKT which is a faster drive, but the connecting pins may not be the same. I am not able to see the pins in the online images. My existing drive has two rows of 24 pins.
Does anyone know if it will fit?

Accepted Answer

likely not. 
based on cursory googling
WD2500BEVE is PATA
WD2500BEKT is SATA

so the connectors would not be the same; 
(since newegg isn't allowing me to post pics of the connectors)
google "sata pata connectors" for images

Question 3

Does this drive require some sort of external power aside from the sata cable?

Accepted Answer

This drive will slide right in to the slot of the hard drive your replacing.  Make sure that the specs match your computer. Do you have SATA or ATA?  Measure the length, width and depth of existing hard drive to make sure it will fit. Most laptops have an outer bracket around the hard drive. Be sure to take that off before measuring. The hard drive slides in to a SATA connection which provides power and data linkage.

Question 4

Does this HD come with its "case" aka caddy aka bracket?

Accepted Answer

This is a bare drive. No case, no caddy, slides, or bracket. No cable and no screws. If you need these things they would have to be obtained separately. It works very well as a replacement drive using hardware already present in the computer.

Question 5

Will this fit my HP Pavilion g6-1a69us Notebook PC?

Accepted Answer

Yes it should fit , but you will be cutting it orginal storage to half.

Question 6

Is this compatible with an dell latitude E6520?

Accepted Answer

It should fit very nicely.. I swapped out a drive for this one in my daughters  dell  Inspiron 1520  it's been solid  ever since

Question 7

Will this work for the old "fat" PS3 systems?

Accepted Answer

Should work great for that application.

I think your question was more or less is this an advanced format drive?

No - which is what you would want for the PS3 drive

Search for "WD Model Numbers Info Sheet - Western Digital" for a chart on product numbers (direct links aren't allowed in Q&A).

Question 8

What is the default partition style of this drive mbr or gpt?

Accepted Answer

Drive arrived without any default partition, so you can go either way once the drive is physically connected to your preferred O/S platform.

Question 9

Is this drive mbr or gpt by default?

Accepted Answer

mbr

Question 10

I have a DV6 Pavailion 3210us, amd8, 3.0hghz 2mb l2 cache. with a 500gb 5400rpm hard drive, it has finally went bad. Could I upgrade to a 7200rpm ? And it has DDR3 SDRAM (2Dimm) what would be my best options ?

Accepted Answer

I am not an expert . 7200Rpm should be no problem  .  infact i do not know what was in mine before . hard drive was missing when i got it

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