Western Digital Scorpio Blue 750 GB SATA 5400 RPM 8 MB Cache Bulk/OEM Notebook Hard Drive - WD7500BPVT

The drive went in easily and is very nice in my new 13" MacBook Pro 2010 model. I had left time machine to copy all of my files while I went to work so it would be done when i got back. Upon returning home from work, everything appeared to be working great but I did start to notice a strange noise, after some use. It seems to be a known issue that when you replace the hard drive in the newer macs with EFI 1.6 or later, the drive will park the heads hundreds of times in a couple hours unless you install a fix for it. This can cause accelerated wear on the drive and shorten its lifespan. My drive had a load cycle count of 498 in the 7 hours that I left it on while i was at work, this is not a good thing; it should be at less than 10-20 for that same amount of time.

There is a very HIGHLY RECOMMENDED FIX at:[...]. It involves some minor technical work and can be compared to editing a few settings on the windows registry. If you can take the cover off of your laptop and...Read more

Western Digital does it again! I just got a new PS3 Slim 2101a model and replaced its simple 120gb hdd with this massive 750gb hdd! Works like a charm!

It formatted to start with 620GB FREE of 698 GB / 750GB HDD

The PS3 will format your HDD no matter what your size HDD, but its all good! Game it up! = )

I previously had a great 320GB HDD Western Digital in my PS3 Phat 60GB launch system, which I am still keeping, but I upgraded to the new PS3 Slim and 750GB!!

This was a replacement drive for a 320GB 7400 RPM Seagate. A couple of things that will be important to others:
* The drive is silent, it is as quiet or quieter than the Seagate
* I cannot provide an exact measurement yet, but battery life is noticeably longer. I am estimating 10-15% even with the larger capacity. (Probably because of advances in technology as well as the lower 5400 RPM)
* The ADF formatting provides considerably more usable space. It is the first time in a decade where I am left with nearly the stated drive capacity after I have formatted the drive.
* Despite the lower RPM and smaller cache of the WD drive vs. the Seagate, I am not experiencing slower access, application start-up or data response.
* It fits easily into a 17" Unibody MacBook Pro. it is actually ever so slightly shorter
* If you are installing it in a Mac with SnowLeapard (10.6.x) and TimeMachine, you will want to install a fresh system and then import preferences,...Read more