Western Digital Scorpio Black 500GB 2.5IN 7200RPM SATA Notebook Hard Drive

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I have bought this when it was on sale. I replaced my old 40gb hard drive for ps3 and its working great. Highly recommended

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Very affordable 500gb drive. Drive noise seems high compared to the 5400 rpm drive it replaced. This may be just a trait of a 7200 rpm drive and may not be of concern but it is worth noting that drive life may be lower than expected.

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Bought this nice upgrade drive to replace My PS3 Toshiba 80GB HDD.I had this in my PS3 for 6 months now, and I use my PS3 on a daily 25h-40h a week and my drive is about 60% full already.Worth every penny!!!-Gaming-Music-Video- *That what I'm all about*I hope they have a Western Digital Scorpio Black 1TB SATA 7200RPM 16MB Cache 2.5 very soon so I can swap it in my PS3!!!

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No problems installing the hard drive. Everything is working to spec, it makes noise when at full rpm but overall fairly quiet. Its a good volume size for a laptop computer. Very good value for gb/price compared to a ssd option.

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Purchased for the purpose of an external hard drive and has worked flawlessly. Plug and play for Unibody Macbook '08.:D

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Not much to say here, the drive is quite fast, has a great warranty, and is an awesome deal when on sale. Picked mine up for $53, will stick to these drives for 2.5" applications going forwards. If you're picky on noise, consider flooking for other options (SSD) if you're looking for a laptop drive, as this drive is louder than most.

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this is a good hard drive. 2.5 inch means it is light.it shows good speed.

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I bought this to put in the 2nd HD caddy in my thinkpad. I read some of the reviews about the noise level but I got it anyway. It is definitely audible in a low-noise room, it sounds like a fan, but it doesn't bother me much. It is faster than the 5400rpm 250GB Toshiba drive that it is replacing and it doesn't seem to put too much of a dent into the battery life.

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I've always been a fan of Seagate, but decided to try out a WD Scorpio Black-glad I did. Fantastic drive, much faster than the stock 5400 rpm drive and the power usage is identical. No issues after 4 months.

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Bought a patriot media box and got this for internal storage. Speeds are great for file transfers and watching any size file. Good price for size and speed.

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I purchased this with the intention of replacing a 500GB Seagate Momentus 5400.6. So far I've noticed that my laptop is a lot snappier. Booting and loading of applications are definitely faster. Downside is that it's louder. In a quiet room, you can easily hear the drive running. As for battery life, my laptop (ASUS U30JC) can usually run for around 6 hours while doing light web broswing and pdf reading while using the 5400RPM Seagate. With the WD Scorpio Black I can manage about 5 hours and 30 minutes. Overall I think the increase in performance is worth the decrease in battery life and increase in noise. 5400 RPM drives are simply too sluggish, and SSDs aren't exactly the most viable solution economically.

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Bought this to replace 100GB Hitachi on my Dell Inspiron 9400.Performance is amazing on this HDD, Over twice the speed of previous HDD. Here are my Crystal DiskMark results: Sequential Read : 107.183 MB/s Sequential Write : 87.395 MB/s Random Read 512KB : 58.909 MB/s Random Write 512KB : 85.250 MB/s Random Read 4KB (QD=1) : 1.076 MB/s [ 262.6 IOPS] Random Write 4KB (QD=1) : 1.916 MB/s [ 467.7 IOPS] Random Read 4KB (QD=32) : 1.347 MB/s [ 328.9 IOPS] Random Write 4KB (QD=32) : 2.035 MB/s [ 496.9 IOPS]

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Replaced a dead Fujitsu in my XPS 1530 with this WD and slapped on Ubuntu, let me tell you, this drive is 100x better in performance than the old Fuji!

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Replaced my old 160gb drive in my ps3 with is model and so far its been working quietly and its very reliable.Definitely a good deal when on sale.

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I used to replace my Macbook Pro hard drive with this hard drive and it's working very well. It's fast and I have more space to put my pictures and videos. I don't if it's because the Macbook's case is skinny, but there is a small noise from the hard drive when I used it to transfert data. But it's not very loud. So, It's very fast and I can watch movie, listen music and transfert that at a great speed. The biggest streng of this item is his price by his speed and capacity.

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Can not match with an SSD, but think about the price you get, and the space you have. This is a very reasonably prices HDD

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I just upgraded a 4 yr old Dell Inspron 6400 Laptop which had a 120GB with Vista. I loaded XP Pro on one partition and loaded Fedora 14 on the remaining space. This has given new life to an old laptop.

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Installed into a PS3 without a hitch. I haven't did any speed tests but it does feel slightly more responsive than the 5400rpm drive it replaced. I only wish I could install one of these into my Xbox 360, but had to settle for the 250gb version of this drive for that one.

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I bought two of these drives to put in my two Patriot Box Office media players. They are a perfect fit. This drive is a nice capacity for a media player (500GB) and being a 7200 RPM drive it's nice an fast.Quite pleased with both of these drives.

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I upgraded a 2-3 year old laptop's HD from a WD 120GB 5400rpm to this. I didn't expect much of a speed upgrade along with the space needed, but wow what a difference! It actually rendered some apps I could barely use (like Nikon View NX2) to normal use.Initially was going to go Momentus XT, but couldn't bring myself to pay twice as much for my old laptop.BTW, used WD's free cloning software (basic Acronis Home Ed) to clone my laptop drive. Worked great. Just make sure you turn off sleep mode on your laptop, as the first time around mine went to sleep in the middle of the cloning process, and wouldn't wake up. I had to start the clone over again, but after turning off sleep mode it went without any hiccups.

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I installed this drive in an Intel Atom based mini PC and so far it is working great. The drive is fast and is very quiet. It also has a 5 year warranty.

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I bought this for the Patriot Box Office, because after some research I decided that it was going to be my best bet at actually playing 1080 content without problems. So far, so good.

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I spent a few days comparing these with Momentus XT drives, but for the price I really couldn't say no; benchmarks have this listed as the fastest notebook drive and that's completely justified, in some cases it outperforms the hybrid drives which are on the market.Like any notebook drive the ease of installation is relative to the model you own, my MBP was of course easy to toss this in, and the subsequent OSX install had a noticeable speed increase over the stock 5400RPM drive.I've heard a few instances of the heat and power consumption being excessive for a notebook, but I've found it to be a nonissue, my battery lasts just as long, the heat is also negligible.

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I bought this to put in my Core 2 Duo Macbook that I purchased in January of 2007. I replaced an 80GB Toshiba drive with this and was pleasantly surprised with the results. In addition to giving me more storage space, my laptop seems faster now, and noise levels haven't been impacted.

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This hard drive is simply a great drive. I initialized the drive and runs like a charm. I use it as a backup drive for LG R 700 laptop. Would buy again without hesitation.