Western Digital 250 GB Scorpio Blue 100 Mb/s 5400 RPM 8 MB Cache Bulk/OEM Notebook Hard Drive - WD2500BEVE

by Western Digital

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 3.9 x 2.8 x 0.5 inches ; 4.2 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 7.8 ounces (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: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (59 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,610 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 18, 2007

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

WD Scorpio Blue Hard Drives – Big capacity for portable computing.

Although the majority of notebooks use hard drives with a SATA interface, some unique or legacy systems still require drives with a PATA interface. WD Scorpio Blue 2.5-inch PATA hard drives deliver ultra-quiet operation and low power consumption, making them the ideal drive for everyday notebook computing.

Why you should choose WD Scorpio Blue drives:

WD Scorpio Blue PATA drives are the perfect way to add storage to older legacy systems. NOTE – Before purchasing a PATA hard drive it is important to check your system specifications to ensure compatibility within your system.

Low power consumption.
State-of-the-art seeking algorithms and advanced power management features ensure low power consumption and long battery life.

Quiet.
In a notebook drive, silence is golden. WD's exclusive WhisperDrive technology yields one of the quietest 2.5-inch hard drives on the market.

PATA 100 MB/s interface.
Enhanced integrated drive electronics (EIDE), also called Parallel ATA (PATA), hard drives were the standard in the computer industry for more than 10 years. PATA drives are the perfect way to add storage to older legacy systems.

Features at a glance 250 GB of notebook storage PATA 100 MB/s interface 2-year limited warranty

Ideal for:

• Older legacy notebook computers

Features:

NoTouch ramp load technology - The recording head never touches the disk media ensuring significantly less wear to the recording head and media as well as better drive protection in transit.

Rugged - WD's ShockGuard technology protects the drive mechanics and platter surfaces from shocks.

Tested for compatibility - We perform tests on hundreds of systems and a multitude of platforms in our FIT Lab and Mobile Compatibility Lab to give our customers confidence that our drives will work in their systems.

Upgrading your drive is easy - WD Acronis TrueImage, available as a free download on the WD Support site, enables you to copy all your data to a new drive so you don't have to reinstall your operating system to get all the benefits of a new drive. Note: Bare drive does not include any cables or mounting hardware.

The WD advantage - WD puts our products through extensive Functional Integrity Testing (F.I.T.) prior to any product launch. On average, each new product goes through 600,000 hours of testing. WD also has a detailed Knowledge Base with more than 1,000 helpful articles. You can also call toll-free support 7 days per week in the U.S. and Canada. See the WD Support site for full details.

WD-certified packaging - All WD drives purchased from Amazon.com are shipped in WD-certified hard drive packaging. It is designed and fully tested to provide WD products with the highest of safety while in transit. With WD-certified packaging, you can rest assured that your WD hard drive will arrive safely, fully protected, in a non-descript, easy-open package.

Compatibility
Works with Windows 7/Vista/XP/2000, Mac and Linux operating systems.

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Internal Notebook Hard Drives Comparison Chart WD Scorpio Blue WD Scorpio Black Big capacity for portable computing. High performance for notebook computing.   Ideal for Notebook computers, netbooks and external enclosures. Notebook computers.   Capacity range 80 GB – 1 TB 160 GB – 750 GB   Interface SATA 3 Gb/s SATA 1.5 Gb/s PATA 100 MB/s SATA 3 Gb/s   Form factor 2.5-inch 2.5-inch   Cache 8 MB 16 MB   Limited warranty 2-year 5-year   Highest capacity     Highest performance     Photo/video editing

Product Description

With capacities up to 320 GB, WD Scorpio Blue 2.5-inch PATA hard drives from Western Digital deliver lightning-fast and ultra-quiet performance hand-in-hand with low power consumption. In addition, they are designed with ruggedness, reliability, and data-protection features that actively watch over valuable data. These drives feature up to a 100 Mb/s PATA interface and 8 MB cache. WD Scorpio Blue hard drives are designed for portable digital devices of all kinds, including notebook computers, external storage, and digital media players.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

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

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S. Nechaev "nsbio" (NC, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Western Digital 250 GB Scorpio Blue 100 Mb/s 5400 RPM 8 MB Cache Bulk/OEM Notebook Hard Drive - WD2500BEVE (Personal Computers)

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!

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

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

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Sunil Nagaraj (Palo Alto, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Western Digital 250 GB Scorpio Blue 100 Mb/s 5400 RPM 8 MB Cache Bulk/OEM Notebook Hard Drive - WD2500BEVE (Personal Computers)

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

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Withstood my first week abuse, January 12, 2009

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N. Kannadaguli "CSharpByter" (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Western Digital 250 GB Scorpio Blue 100 Mb/s 5400 RPM 8 MB Cache Bulk/OEM Notebook Hard Drive - WD2500BEVE (Personal Computers)

When I bought this item it was listed as "Western Digital 250GB 2.5" PATA Bulk/OEM Hard Drive WD2500BEVE" on Amazon. That link now takes me to "Western Digital Scorpio Blue 250GB 2.5" PATA 5400RPM 8MB Bulk/OEM Hard Drive WD2500BEVE". I am not sure if these are the same. I also bought "Apricorn EZ-UP-UNIVERSAL EZ Upgrade Universal Hard Drive Upgrade Kit" to clone the hard drive of my Toshiba 1115-S1554 that began complaining weeks ago of an imminent hard drive failure. I made an clone of the old drive and exchanged the drives. New image did not boot. I partitioned the hard drive in to two 125BG blocks and cloned - that did not work. I imaged using XXClone, that also did not boot. Then I partitioned so that the boot partition had same size as the old one (partitioned to 40GB, 90GB and 120GB blocks) and tried separately Apricorn cloning software and XXClone imaging unsuccessfully again and again. Eventually I ended up installing OS from fresh using Toshiba recovery package that came with the laptop years ago. It worked. In the process I must have mechanically installed and uninstalled this 250GB hard drive more than a dozen time each in the laptop and Apricorn enclosure and partitioned and formatted several times. Even after all this, the WD 250GB hard drive is working like a champ. I am glad that that the clucking noise I was used to hear from my old drive is gone. I have a quiet working laptop at the end with plenty of storage space. I have several other WD drives that work reliably. I would recommend this product.