Western Digital 160 GB Scorpio PATA Mobile Internal Hard Drive WD1600VERTL (Blue)

by Western Digital

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 6 x 3.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B0013FSKQM
• Item model number: WD1600VERTL
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: February 2, 2008

Product Description

WD Scorpio Blue 5400 RPM 2.5-inch SATA and EIDE hard drives from Western Digital deliver lightning-fast and ultra-quiet performance hand-in-hand with low power consumption. In addition, these hard drives are designed with ruggedness, reliability, and data-protection features that actively watch over valuable data. Available in capacities from 160 to 500 GB, these drives feature a 3 Gb/s SATA 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

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It's very quiet, June 26, 2010

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HappyCamper - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Western Digital 160 GB Scorpio PATA Mobile Internal Hard Drive WD1600VERTL (Blue) (Personal Computers)

This drive is quiet and fast. Here are pros and cons:
Pros: very quiet and fast.
Cons: kind of expensive compare to SATA drive.
I'm very satisfied with this purchase except that it took Amazon 1 week to start shipping.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Whisper quite and OK fast, August 23, 2010

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Robert Hanson "BobH" (Minneapolis area) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Western Digital 160 GB Scorpio PATA Mobile Internal Hard Drive WD1600VERTL (Blue) (Personal Computers)

This 160GB WD drive was an upgrade for my 4-yr old 80GB Fujitsu drive that was still working well, but too small. Upgrade was a pain -- not because of WD drive, but because Dell's piece-of-crap MediaDirect software got in the way, inexplicably truncating the larger 160GB drive down to 80GB. Can you believe it? I'll spare you the details, but had to dig deep to find a workaround on the TechHandbook website that allowed me to re-set the new drive to its full 160GB capacity and permanently disable MediaDirect (which I never used, anyway) so that it stopped getting in the way. (Dell's website was no help.) Used Acronis software to clone the old drive onto the new one. Beyond that adventure, the WD drive works great so far -- it is whisper quite, but not noticeably faster than my 4-yr old Fujitsu. Feels good to have some breathing room on my hard drive, and I hope it holds up as well as the problem-free old Fujitsu.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great upgrade for older laptops, July 19, 2010

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Magic Jack - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Western Digital 160 GB Scorpio PATA Mobile Internal Hard Drive WD1600VERTL (Blue) (Personal Computers)

Great replacement or upgrade for PATA/IDE/EIDE drives in older laptops. Quiet and fast.

I've used these to upgrade drives and replace failing drives. HINT: buy/borrow an external drive enclosure, put the new drive in the enclosure, use Clonezilla ([...]) to copy the entire old drive's data (including multiple OS's, diagnostic partitions, etc) to the new drive, then replace the old drive with the new one and just boot up.