Western Digital Scorpio Blue 750GB 2.5IN SATA2 5400RPM 8MB 2.5IN Notebook Hard Drive OEM

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Tons of space, will fit most laptop HDD bays. Incredibly quiet, it will fit pretty significantly any laptop with SATA connection aahh.... none If you have the space, you might want to go for the three platter drive, it will be a little more quickly, and ought to hold far more data.

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Very good cost. Largest amount of storage for a non unibody MacBook (so far). Works good and is a accurate 750GB tough drive. My MacBook Pro says it has 749.81GB of capacity. And that is how it really should be! Nothing so far.It wasn't free or come with a brick of gold. I am glad I bought this difficult drive. I would absolutely advise it to a buddy.

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Operates for what I wanted exactly. This drive fits in the internal slot of a Playstation three Slim. I had a 120GB hdd and that simply was not sufficient. None Newegg has SUPER Rapid shipping @ either SUPER low costs or Free of charge! Everytime I use them I have a fantastic experience.

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substantial and affordable for a 2.five" normal tradeoffs, 5400rpm,and so on Guys, remember that this is an 'Advanced Format' drive, which means that if you don't align it to 4k sectors you will get 1Ǟth efficiency. I've tested myself, and an unaligned partition takes 32 minutes to do what an aligned partition can in 4 minutes. That's most likely the source of reports about stuttering, timeouts, etc.

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Huge amount of storage. Common height so it fits in a MacBook Pro. Slow, died following only two weeks of use. Began freezing after only a couple days.

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I have huge storage capacity for my old phat playstation three actual drive memory directly right after install is 620 GB out of 698 GB. from what i comprehend that is 130 GB unaccounted for. upgraded from a 40 GB drive so tons a lot more space but even that was around 5MB left of 38 GB. I don't see why a drive with nothing a lot more than an OS on it taking up 70 gigs. plus it was marketed as a 750 GB. where are the extra gigs? shipping was very swift, appears as even though it would have been a day sooner but bad weather is negative in my area this week.

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Speedy Processing!Quick shipping! HD works fine. No packaging for item

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lots of space for PS3 games, functions on all of them so far.... makes a clicking noise and spools up and down a lot, produced me feel the drive was dieing if not for a friend has the identical drive, and exact same clicking. notice some lag not a deal breaker at all, wish it was quicker. wish it was quicker.

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I just installed one of these drives into a brand new 2010 model Mac Mini and it fits perfectly... currently the largest challenging drive that will fit this pc as the thicker hard drives do not fit. I purchased 2 of these and put 1 into my MacBook and the other 1 is now in my new mini. None that I have found other than a couple of whiners posting negative comments on here about acquiring bad drives - get over it individuals, it happens in this small business so just wait for your replacement drive and then write something good. Relating to the new 2010 Mac Mini I tore mine fully apart and do not see how you can mod the case to fit a thicker hard drive simply because Apple decided to make the new case smaller and wider. Stick to this drive until they come out with a larger 9.5mm difficult drive or SSD drive and you will be ok.

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I installed this difficult drive with out any troubles for my MacBook Pro and my other hard drive is now my external difficult drive :] None so far... Wish it would have been a terabyte!

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Worked for 1 month Just 15 days following the 30 day return period the S.M.A.R.T. status failed on the drive. Now I can't do anything with it due to the fact it won't let me re-partition on my Macbook. Huge waste of money.

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Superior replacement for 160GB HDD for netbookQuiet as expected on 5400 RPMs none as of but. 750GB on netbook? huh ?

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This is in response to the guy who is upset he is not finding the max capacity out of the drive. This has definitely absolutely nothing to do with the drive itself it is the way the operating method works with your drive. SO if you have Any person to blame it should be Playstation if that is where the drive is stored. Example would be Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger operating technique (we are on 10.6 snow leopard)... the 10.four Tiger OS works differently in the way it employed storage space on the difficult drive so in your case it wouldn't use most of the hard drive, you would be missing like 100 GB's of space. Now on Snow Leopard OS you would be missing possibly 20GB of space. With a Windows PC you don't have 100% of the drive, with the OS you are in all probability missing like 20GB as nicely. Bottom line is... do study ahead of you bad mouth an remarkable item due to the fact you have no concept what you are talking about. Absolutely nothing this drive was ideal for my Apple Television which I modified to accept a SATA drive compared the PATA drive it generally utilizes. Western Digital is often the greatest! Works best just like all my Western Digital drives do. I also realize that the lack of my added 80GB from my Apple Television is due to the reality it uses a 10.4 Mac OS which will not give me 100% of the drives storage... but it's not a con and I won't take a star away for it because I am not dumb, I really know some thing about computers :)

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The hard drive has a huge capacity though sustaining the standard difficult drive dimensions.I installed the 750 GB hard drive on my 2006 15" 2.16 GHz Intel Core two Duo MacBook Pro. 1. I booted up with the OS installation disk and opened the disk utility. two. I imaged my old drive to an external challenging drive. three. I then replaced the challenging drive, booted up with the OS installation disk and restored the image to the new drive with the disk utility.Note* Be positive to use a recent OSX installation disk as older versions of disk utility do not support bigger hard drives. I initially tried to use an older version of disk utility and it incorrectly listed the hard drive capacity as five.five TB None to date Some men and women are complaining about clicking noises. This may be signs of a defective drive and I would get in touch with Western Digital quickly.

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Worked great and quiet. Installed windows 7 with out a dilemma, and dual booted with ubuntu 9.10. Quick for my light gaming (MMO's). Died after 6 Months. Even right after I got poor sectors it nonetheless allowed me to rescue information from them prior to finally dying. I read other reviews saying it was loud. It is kinda loud in the course of start off up but right after that it stays quiet. maybe if you are in a library and your the only one there then I could hear it,but still barely.Though before newegg mentioned this was a 7200 RPM drive.

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Huge drive 2.5" 9.5mm largest laptop HDD.....poor for PS3 This drive will trigger stuttering and skipping in cutscenes in PS3 games....Use for PS3 at caution.

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Got this drive and put it in a external enclosure and utilised it as a backup.-Huge Space-Quiet-Cool -Died immediately after 4 months-According to intelligent it stated it had various present pending sectors and reallocated sectors. One day a message popped up when I connected my drive to Windows. It said I required to reformat the drive in order to use it. That by no means showed up prior to but I did it anyways in order to get it to function. Many hours later it worked usually.. until I disconnected and reconnected it. When I reconnected it the exact same message popped up again. Reformatted once again, disconnected then reconnected it and the same message came up. Did it 1 a lot more time just to make sure and the same factor happened.Can't get the drive to work. I have two other WD drives for a longer time than I had this 1 and they're working fine.According to smart I only had this drive powered on for a 100hours before it died.Now I have an high-priced paper weight.Going to get a 2tb drive three.five" drive and an external enclosure for back up rather. Probably won't acquire WD again unless they come out without with some thing awesome that I should get haha.

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Largest capacity accessible in a normal drive size, fast for a 5400rpm drive, virtually silent in my MacBook Pro 17 (unibody mid-2009). Performance and noise level is identical to my 500GB Scorpio Blue, which is amazing! Drive spun down continuously, and I mean Constantly. It would spin up, click, then spin down once again right away unless data was being accessed. Then it would immediately spin up once again and repeat the process.Right after some study, I was able to fix the issue with a free downloadable utility called hdapm. This is the only reason the drive didn't get 5 stars.Western Digital, please pay attention. This issue has been reported by various users across the net. The drive should not function this way out of the box. I'd been utilizing a 500GB Scorpio Blue 5400rpm drive in my MacBook Pro 17 (unibody mid-2009) for over a year. I actually liked the drive but necessary more space so I decided to go with another WD Scorpio Blue. I tried the 1TB model (with 12.4mm drive height) but it was loud and slow, so I ordered this 750GB Scorpio Blue 5400rpm hoping its characteristics would match my 500GB model. The drive was just as quiet as my 500GB and boot time was just as quick. Nonetheless, when I listened closely with the MacBook to my ear, I realized it was spinning down continually. It would spin up, click, and then spin down once more if information wasn't becoming accessed. Then it would quickly spin up again and repeat the procedure.This problem has been reported by several other reviewers, but the excellent news is that I was able to fix the problem with a free of charge utility referred to as hdapm (google it). Now the drive is everything it ought to be, and I'm quite happy with it.

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Reasonably quick. For it's size and RPM, it is faster than the 160GB drive it replaced. Warm and Clicky. Other reviews mention the clicking this drive makes. It sounds like the drive is dying the 1st few times you hear it, but I guess I've gotten employed to it.

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At 750GB, this is a TON of storage in the laptop planet. It is the 9.5mm height, so it fits in darn near any laptop. It's quiet and doesn't make any noticeable vibration. I hear it spin up at times. It is SLOW. I own an Alienware M17x with dual HD5870 GPUs and an i7 920XM CPU. My main tough drive is an Intel X25 80GB Solid State Drive. I rapidly ran out of room on the 80GB SSD, and foolishly decided to install a couple of games on the 750GB drive. I threw Age of Empires 2 and Counter-Strike Source on there. It's a 5,400 RPM drive with an 8MB cache. Every single couple of minutes, like clockwork, each games would stutter badly even though the HDD caught up. Those are each Extremely old games, folks. Doesn't definitely matter in AOE2, but in CS:S on the web, I was obtaining punished. Moved both games to the SSD and the stuttering never ever happened once again. Like I said, I would only use this drive for mass storage. Forget about running anything else from it. If you ran a couple of these beasts in RAID0, I would think that the stuttering problems would cease. 1.5TB RAID0 in a laptop is just sweet.

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very good capacity, reasonable cost. As one more user already pointed out, it has specific noise under Mac OS X, at least on my Unibody MBP 13 inch (April 2010 version). The noise is like "whistle" or a light "glass touch each and every other". It happens once various seconds or so. Under Windows 7 by way of Bootcamp, I didn't experience this issue, although. I sent a support request to WD, hopefully they can concern a new firmware to address this problem.

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Great value, good sizeAs silent and fast as original MacMini HD None so far Put that into a MacMini and was concerned that it might not be as quiet as the original drive based on the other critiques. I'm pleasantly surprised. No troubles either under OS-X or Win7

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got this for my ps3 for ading more storage if you dont want shuttering run wdidle3 on this drive before using it and for saving its lifetime

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Unlike the previous reviewer, I haven't noticed any clicking sounds that are out of the ordinary for a hard drive. This drive seems to be doing its job brilliantly storing all of my MacBook's ~500GB or so of files. I'd happily buy again (although I should warn there could be some merit to the previous reviewer's theory of a firmware problem as I haven't checked the head counts on this drive, but I've been running the drive nearly 24/7 and I haven't heard anything nasty - if it was a firmware issue it seems to have been fixed).

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Bought this driving as I have enjoyed various other WD drives recently without any problems. I installed this drive into my Asus UL30VT and installed Win7 in no time.Then, I started hearing some aweful clicking sounds. I mean aweful and very distinct.I'm an experienced computer user and know my HDD sounds inside and out. The sound coming from this drive made me cringe on a very regular basis when I would hear it. After some research I discovered on HD Tune that the (C1) Load Cycle Count was extremely high for such a new drive. As it turns out the drive constantly parks the head at every opportunity to save power on idle, but does so to the extreme. After only a few days of use I had over 8000 HDD C1 counts whereas the average drive will crap out after 200,000 to 500,000 of these parks. I found that 8000 after only a few days was a very bad thing.Long story short, did research and found that someone ported HDparm over to windows and with a simple command you can disable the HDD C1 state entirely (with almost zero impact on battery life, I'm still enjoying over 10hrs of actual use).All the info is here http://forum.notebookreview.com/dell/168425-clicking-noise-issue-resolved.htmlI made a batch file and created a shortcut which resides in my startup folder which launches every bootup. Only downside it is requires administrator privileges so I disabled UAC for a more automatic approach.Anyways, i'm delighted with the drive and would buy it again but will be researching my future WD purchases more critically.Beware of the same issue with other newer WD drives.