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- These drives offer the highest capacity for space-hungry operating systems with plenty of room left over for photos, music, and video.
- Quiet WhisperDrive technology combines state-of-the-art seeking algorithms to yield one of the quietest 2.5-inch hard drives on the market.
- Reliable and rugged ShockGuard technology protects the drive mechanics and platter surfaces from shocks.
- Fast and efficient Ultra-fast 3 Gb/s SATA interface speed yields performance fit for demanding mobile applications.
- Ships in Certified Frustration-Free Packaging
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WD Scorpio Blue Hard Drives – Big capacity for portable computing.
WD Scorpio Blue 2.5-inch SATA hard drives deliver ultra-quiet operation and low power consumption, making them the ideal drive for everyday notebook computing. In addition, these hard drives are designed with ruggedness, reliability, and data-protection features that actively watch over your valuable data.
Why you should choose WD Scorpio Blue drives:
WD Scorpio Blue SATA drives are the perfect way to add storage for all your photos, videos and files on your notebook computer.
State-of-the-art seeking algorithms and advanced power management features ensure low power consumption and long battery life.
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.
The industry standard and most common interface.
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Ideal for:
- Notebook computing
- Small form factor external enclosures
- Netbooks
Features:
SATA 3 Gb/s - The industry standard and most common interface.
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.
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Advanced Format (AF) - Technology being adopted by WD and other drive manufacturers to continue growing hard drive capacities. New drives featuring AF are optimized for operation with Windows 7, Windows Vista and Mac OS X Tiger, Leopard, Snow Leopard. For older operating systems such as Windows XP, users must run the free WD Align software utility to achieve the full performance of the drive.
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 and Mac operating systems.
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23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great Replacement for 13" Mac, but **Mac Owners PLEASE READ!**,
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This review is from: Western Digital Scorpio Blue 750 GB SATA 5400 RPM 8 MB Cache Bulk/OEM Notebook Hard Drive - WD7500BPVT (Personal Computers)
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 install a new drive just fine, you can do this. I have just installed the fix described above and everything is working great with no clicking noises coming from the new drive. Some other tips for installing the drive include: 1. Replace the back cover screws on the MBP unibody starting with the middle columns (in the order of bottom left, top right, bottom right, top left), next replace the end screws from right to left in the order of middle row, then bottom row, then top row. 2. If you are restoring from a time machine backup, do a fresh install of the software first by booting from the System Restore Disc, Going to the Utilities menu in the setup environment and formatting the disk using Disk Utility. Next do a clean install of Snow Leopard to take advantage of the new 4k sector scheme required for this drive. Finally on the first boot of the system, restore your files and settings using the "Restore from a time machine backup" option of the registration screens. Once the restoration process is complete, don't forget to run Software Update and the fix described above. That's it, enjoy your new drive!
31 of 33 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
PS3 HDD Upgrade!!,
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This review is from: Western Digital Scorpio Blue 750 GB SATA 5400 RPM 8 MB Cache Bulk/OEM Notebook Hard Drive - WD7500BPVT (Personal Computers)
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!!
17 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great replacement for Mac Unibody Drive,
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This review is from: Western Digital Scorpio Blue 750 GB SATA 5400 RPM 8 MB Cache Bulk/OEM Notebook Hard Drive - WD7500BPVT (Personal Computers)
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, apps and data using the TimeMachine option. Trying to restore directly without installing a fresh system results in failure, I believe this is because of the new ADF formatting of the drive. The Seagate 320GB was a quick reliable drive, but I filled it to capacity within a year.
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