Product ReviewsWestern Digital WD Scorpio Black 500GB 2.5IN SATA2 7200RPM 16MB Notebook Hard Drive
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 Rating: Review Date: 11/22/12  |
Cons: None so far
Pros: Easily installs |
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Rating: Review Date: 11/03/12 |
Cons: Had bad experience with brand, but not this model specifically. Time will tell.
Pros: FastAffordableLong warranty(5yrs) Comment:
Fast, affordable upgrade to any laptop. The warranty alone is a bonus compared to other manufacturers. 5yrs compared to 1yr for most others. I believe the "BLACK's" are the only model from WD with a 5yr warranty. Glad someone still has confidence in their product. Past experience took me away from this brand, but the 5yr warranty on this type has lured me in again. Hope to get many years of reliable service out of these WD Black drives. |
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Rating: Review Date: 10/24/12 |
Cons: none
Pros: 7200 rmps5 years warranty Comment:
When I need a good drive, I get a WD black. This drive is no exception: it is fast, quiet and comes with a 5 years warranty. |
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Rating: Review Date: 06/03/12 |
Cons: None
Pros: really good item and good pricing Comment:
ive been using it for sometime and i really enjoy it |
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Rating: Review Date: 04/24/12 |
Cons: None that I can think of.
Pros: Fast, large, and cheap. Comment:
Fast for a 2.5"er, cheap (used to be 65, but then the flooding happened T_T), and the warrenty w/ Western Digital is 3 years long, and transferable if you have to replace it (gotta e-mail them afterwards saying transfer serial # x's warrenty to my new one, # y, though). |
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Rating: Review Date: 04/10/12 |
Cons: - none
Pros: - fast- price and capacity ratio is good Comment:
- i use this for my netbook and it's a lot faster compared to the stock hard drive. i recommend everybody to switch their laptop hard drives for a caviar black! |
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Rating: Review Date: 04/09/12 |
Cons: loud
Pros: Fast, decent space Comment:
This hdd is suprisingly fast for 2.5 inches. I purchased it on sale, and am very pleased with the speed increase in my laptop. However, this hdd tends to be loud, but i can understand it while under the loads. Overall, i will most definetly pick up another |
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Rating: Review Date: 12/19/11 |
Cons: Noise
Pros: Cost Per GB. Brand Reputation Comment:
Noisy noisy noisy drive. I guess it is expected when you pack a lot of hard drive into a tiny notebook computer space. Unusual gyroscopic properties makes the shock and 0 G sensor stop tripping (it could just be hardware compatibility with my MBP but who knows). |
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Rating: Review Date: 12/12/11 |
Cons: Currently, the price. I bought it for around 60$ 6 months ago. It is now 160$.
Pros: ReliableFast Comment:
This product is fast and reliable. I have been using it on my PS3 and I haven't had a single problem with it. I was worried there might be some heating problems because it is 7200RPM instead of the default PS3 drive's 5400RPM, but no such problem came up. |
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Rating: Review Date: 11/02/11 |
Cons: none
Pros: price ( was on sale) , fast Comment:
I put this in my Patriot POB to store file on and works like a charm. Lots of room for movies , flac and the like and keeps right up with all the content I have thrown at it. |
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Rating: Review Date: 10/23/11 |
Cons: None.
Pros: Works perfectly as intended. Comment:
I bought to this to add storage to my Patriot Box Office. Installation was easy and it worked right away without issue. Still working to this day so that's always a plus. There's always the warranty if anything goes wrong anyways. :) |
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Rating: Review Date: 10/17/11 |
Cons: None
Pros: FastQuiet5 Year Warranty Comment:
Very fast and quiet drive. The free utilities that you can download from the WD website are really nice as well, allowing you to easily clone/replace an existing drive. |
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Rating: Review Date: 09/27/11 |
Cons: A little heat.
Pros: Decent and fast. Comment:
Picked up this drive 2 months ago and installed to an external hard drive. Working perfectly so far except yielding a little heat from the enclosure. I like the size of the drive. Still got a lot of space after backing up all my recent data. Will look forward for next sales on this particular item. |
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Rating: Review Date: 09/02/11 |
Cons: None
Pros: Fast and quiet Comment:
Got this hard drive when it was on sale. I have been using it for 2 months and it is great. Really fast and quiet. 500 GB of space is enough for storage on a laptop. Western Digital is always my favourite choice when it comes to internal hard drives. Will buy it again! |
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Rating: Review Date: 09/01/11 |
Cons: None so far
Pros: Fast compared to my stock 5400RPM Seagate5 Year WD WarrantyGreat Performance Comment:
I've heard many people complain that this drive is "too loud" for their notebook. Quite honestly I don't know what in the world they are talking about. I can only barely hear it in a completely silent room. So far I am very impressed with this hard drive, boot times and application startups are much much quicker than before. It's not at the level of an SSD yet, but for $64.99 it was most definitely a worthwhile investment for any notebook. This review was modfied by poster @ 09-02-11 07:32 AM |
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Rating: Review Date: 08/25/11 |
Cons: Tends to be a bit overheating.
Pros: Good, fast, reliable laptop drive. Comment:
If you have a 5400rpm drive, definitely make the switch for this 7200 drive. It is cheap and not really more expensive than a 5400 HDD. I'd say get a cheap 2.5 HDD enclosure and use your existing 5400 drive for extra space or a backup. Of course, this drive can't be compared to SSD units but makes a cheap nice upgrade. It will give you about a 33-50% speed boost compared to a WD scorpio blue... |
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Rating: Review Date: 08/21/11 |
Cons: none..
Pros: sexy :Dworks like a charm.. easy install Comment:
i cant think of anything that is wrong with western digital... i have so many of the drives and they all work like they should. |
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Rating: Review Date: 08/18/11 |
Cons: - none so far
Pros: - 7200rpm (fast drive) Comment:
Got this on sale for $58.99. I brought this to replaced a malfunctioning hard drive on my laptop. So far so good, seems to be working after about a month's worth of usage. |
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Rating: Review Date: 08/15/11 |
Cons: None yet!
Pros: Quick drive, good quality. Comment:
Bought it for an external drive, formatted perfectly the first time, haven't had any problems yet. The black series always seem well-made to me. |
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Rating: Review Date: 07/08/11 |
Cons: None
Pros: FastStableCoolQuiet Comment:
Got this during the special to replace my ps3 hdd. Extremely fast and quiet and well priced for the storage size. |
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Rating: Review Date: 06/29/11 |
Cons: A little bit noisy, but acceptable
Pros: Fast, fast...compare to old Hitachi 5400RPM drive.. Comment:
Would recommend it..Benchmark:-----------------------------------------------------------------------CrystalDiskMark 3.0.1 (C) 2007-2010 hiyohiyo Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/-----------------------------------------------------------------------* MB/s = 1,000,000 byte/s [SATA/300 = 300,000,000 byte/s] Sequential Read : 125.458 MB/s Sequential Write : 120.692 MB/s Random Read 512KB : 43.621 MB/s Random Write 512KB : 57.271 MB/s Random Read 4KB (QD=1) : 0.547 MB/s [ 133.5 IOPS] Random Write 4KB (QD=1) : 0.955 MB/s [ 233.2 IOPS] Random Read 4KB (QD=32) : 0.693 MB/s [ 169.1 IOPS] Random Write 4KB (QD=32) : 0.917 MB/s [ 223.9 IOPS] Test : 1000 MB [C: 36.4% (17.0/46.6 GB)] (x5) Date : 2011/06/29 23:56:01 OS : Windows 7 Ultimate Edition [6.1 Build 7600] (x86) |
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Rating: Review Date: 03/31/11 |
Cons:
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Pros: Quality Brand.7200 rpm.Quiet.5yr warranty. Comment:
Got it on sale for 63.99$. Very fast and quiet for a 7200rpm laptop hard drive. Highly recommend. |
Very easily installed this into an IBM laptop and have had no problems so far. Faster than original hard drive. Got this on sale for a friend and they are happy with it. Would purchase again.