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Western Digital Scorpio Blue 500 GB Bulk/OEM Hard Drive 2.5 Inch, 8 MB Cache, 5400 RPM SATA II WD5000BEVT
Western Digital Scorpio Blue 500 GB Bulk/OEM Hard Drive 2.5 Inch, 8 MB Cache, 5400 RPM SATA II WD5000BEVTWestern Digital Scorpio Blue 500 GB Bulk/OEM Hard Drive 2.5 Inch, 8 MB Cache, 5400 RPM SATA II WD5000BEVT
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Western Digital Scorpio Blue 500 GB Bulk/OEM Hard Drive 2.5 Inch, 8 MB Cache, 5400 RPM SATA II WD5000BEVT
- Ships in Certified Frustration-Free Packaging
- WD's exclusive WhisperDrive yields one of the quietest 2.5-inch hard drives on the market.
- WD's ShockGuard technology protects the drive mechanics and platter surfaces from shocks
- With 5400 RPM spin speed and 12 ms access time and up to 3 GB/s SATA interface speed
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Product Description
Ooma 500GB Scorpio Blue SATA Mobile Hard Drive Big capacity for portable computing. With available SATA or PATA interfaces, WD Scorpio Blue drives offerhigh-performance, low power consumption, and cooloperation, perfect for notebooks and other portable devices. Pick the drive that suits your needs with the confidence in knowing that all WD Scorpio Blue drives are built to the highest standards of quality and reliability. Features: * Massive capacity - Whether they are in an external drive or a notebook computer, WD Scorpio Blue SATA drives are available in capacities up to 500 GB and offer the most available capacity for space-hungry operating systems, like Windows Vista, with plentyof room left over for photos, music, and video. * Quiet - In a notebook drive, silence is golden. WDs exclusive WhisperDrive combines state-of-the-art seeking algorithms to yield one of the quietest 2.5-inch hard drives on the market. These algorithms also optimize the way a drive seeks for data, which significantly improves power consumption. So now silence (and longer battery life) is golden. * Reliable and rugged - WD's ShockGuard technology protects the drive mechanics and platter surfaces from shocks. WD's SecurePark parks the recording heads off the disk surface during spin up, spin down, and when the drive is off. This ensures the recording head never touches the disk surface resulting in improved long-term reliability due to less head wear, and improved non-operational shock tolerance. * Fast and efficient - With 5400 RPM spin speed and 12 ms access time and up to 3 Gb/s SATA interface speed, even the most demanding customer will appreciate the performance achieved by WD Scorpio Blue drives. * Tested for compatibility - We perform tests on hundreds of systems and a multitude of platforms in our FIT LabTM and Mobile Compatibility Lab to give our customers confidencethat our drives will work in their systems.
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Western Digital Scorpio Blue 500 GB Bulk/OEM Hard Drive 2.5 Inch, 8 MB Cache, 5400 RPM SATA II WD5000BEVT
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- Publisher: Western Digital
- Label: Western Digital
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- Average Customer Review: based on 349 reviews
Special Features
- nv:Drive Type^Laptop|Capacity^500 GB|Interface^SATA 2.5-in Mobile|Interface Type^SATA|Spindle Speed (RPM)^5400|Buffer Memory^8MB|Average Seek (msec)^12|Average Latency (msec)^5.5|Data Transfer Rate on Serial ATA^Up to 3000 Mb/sec|Form Factor^2.5"|Temperature, Operating (°C)^0 to 60
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Summary: This is "The Hard Drive" for the PS3 2010-03-08
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Summary: Dead on Opening 2010-03-05
Comment: I bought this Drive on sale at Fry's for 69 odd some dollars. I was going to use it in a enclosure i bought as an external drive. as soon as i set it up which the EASE OF INSTALLATION was simple, the drive would not spin up. I took everything apart and removed the drive from the enclosure and attached it to a USB to SATA/PATA adapter and thats when i heard the dreaded click of death. how the heck could a brand new hard drive that hasnt been out of its static wraper for more than 20 minutes headcrash?
Fry's would not take it back and i could not go back either due to poor weather. They told me to ship it to Western digital. Western Digitals RMA request is conveluded and difficult to manuver around. i choose to pre pay for a UPS label. it took me 5 tries 3 RMA requests and 2 creditcards before i was finnaly able to get the lable. then i found out i screwed up on my address and that added a 6th RMA but this was after i paid for the label attached to another RMA#. I finaly got a replacement but have not gotten around to try it. i ordered a 3.5" to 2.5" for a computer i am building as a replacement for the current 80GB drive i am using.
Fry's would not take it back and i could not go back either due to poor weather. They told me to ship it to Western digital. Western Digitals RMA request is conveluded and difficult to manuver around. i choose to pre pay for a UPS label. it took me 5 tries 3 RMA requests and 2 creditcards before i was finnaly able to get the lable. then i found out i screwed up on my address and that added a 6th RMA but this was after i paid for the label attached to another RMA#. I finaly got a replacement but have not gotten around to try it. i ordered a 3.5" to 2.5" for a computer i am building as a replacement for the current 80GB drive i am using.
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Summary: Perfect for PS3 2010-03-03
Comment: I purchased this Hard Drive to upgrade the 60gb already in my system. Everything runs smoothly, works great in the PS3 and easy to install and format.
Customer Rating: 
Summary: Cheap and functional 2010-03-01
Comment: Overall a low price hard drive for my sony laptop. Has a slight ticking noise to it when it reads/writes data. The black version is a higher end version which I will probably get next time.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great buy! 2010-02-28
Comment: I just bought 2 more of these. The price is great for what you get. I use them for external's, have installed them in my PS3's and one will go in my new Mac. Can't go wrong with these.
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Western Digital Scorpio Blue 500 GB Bulk/OEM Hard Drive 2.5 Inch, 8 MB Cache, 5400 RPM SATA II WD5000BEVT
About this drive I must say:
Pros:
It's a Western Digital.
Compatible with PS3 recommended specs (for instance: 5400 RPM, 2.5-inch hard drive).
Size 500 GB.
Cons:
The package does not seem to be very secure with those air bags included, not sure if those air bags will fully protect an OEM hard drive.
Despite of that minor inconvenient, Western Digital hard disks ROCKS!!.
100% recommended.
5 stars.