Western Digital WD2500BEVE 250 GB 5400RPM ATA100 8 MB 2.5-Inch Notebook Hard Drive

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Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 11 x 7.9 x 3.9 inches ; 4.2 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B000W3RPLC
• Item model number: WD2500BEVE
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (70 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #4,153 in Electronics (See Bestsellers in Electronics)

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• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 18, 2007

Product Description

Product Description
WD Scorpio mobile hard drive delivers best-in-class performance with low power consumption and cool operation. In addition, you'll get one of the quietest 2.5-inch drives on the market with real-time data protection technology to help keep your data safe.ive, silence is golden. WD's exclusive WhisperDrive combines state-of-the-art seeking algorithms to yield one of the quietest 2.5-inch hard drives on the market. Optimizing the way a drive seeks for data also aids significantly in saving power. So now silence with longer battery life is golden.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.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars big and quiet, March 13, 2008

By	S. Nechaev "nsbio" (NC, USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This 250Gb drive replaced the original 80Gb drive in my G4 PB. The drive affords plenty of extra storage space and by thus adds some extra life to the machine. The reviewer who mentioned that the drive is noisy must have gotten a defective unit: my drive is as quiet as it could be - I can barely hear it in a quiet room and absolutely can not hear it if there is any background noise such as office or lab chatter. The old drive was much smaller and noisier. Very worthwhile upgrade!

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Works perfectly, July 14, 2008

By	Sunil Nagaraj (Chapel Hill, NC United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Great drive. Simple installation. Note that this is a PATA drive (wide hard-drive connector cables).

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Upgrading Dell Inspiron 600m 60GB hard drive with WD3200BEVE, March 21, 2009

By	E. T. Triebel - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Upgraded my 60 GB Toshiba to the WD3200BEVE in my Dell Inspiron 600m and it is working great so far, just did it a few days ago! Much quieter drive and does not get as hot as the Toshiba drive. The 137 GB barrier was not an issue due to Windows XP SP1 (I have SP3) and WD Data Lifeguard Tools 11.2 for Windows. Windows had no problem seeing the whole 320 GB and Data Lifeguard Tools did the rest, I now have 250 GB of extra space to extend the life of my laptop. I also bought 2 sticks of the Crucial 1 GB PC2700 RAM so for less then $200.00 combined I got two great upgrades.

Other Thoughts: Don't forget the adapter on the end of your old hard drive, the (UDMA) adapter to plug from the hard drive EIDE connector into the motherboard. Hope this may help someone who does not know.