Western Digital Scorpio Blue WD2500BEVE Hard Drive - 250GB - 5400rpm - Internal

by Western Digital

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 5 x 1.9 inches ; 1 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• ASIN: B001EWXLUE
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: July 7, 2004

Product Description

Scorpio Blue WD2500BEVE Hard Drive offers high-performance, low power consumption, and cool operation, perfect for notebooks and other portable devices. Scorpio Blue WD2500BEVE Hard Drive is built to the highest standards of quality and reliability.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars These drives are VERY unreliable. Do Not Buy., July 8, 2008

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Danielle (Columbus, OH) - See all my reviews

The WD2500BEVE hard drives are very unreliable. I'm on my third one. My first lasted 6 months. The next lasted two months. This one less than a month. There is a five year warranty from Western Digital, so I keep sending them back. Unfortunately this doesn't help me when I need my laptop. I cannot rely on it to load windows anymore. This isn't caused by my computer. I purchased this on Newegg last fall, and if you read the reviews on their website, this is a very common problem.

I do not recommend this at all.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars good price and fast delivery, February 20, 2009

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Giurgiu Ciprian-florin "soundart" (Sibiu, Romania) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Western Digital Scorpio Blue WD2500BEVE Hard Drive - 250GB - 5400rpm - Internal (Electronics)

the hard drive is very OK, it increase my notebook batery life and is very quiet

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Best big PATA Notebook Drive Available, January 15, 2009

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Karl Roembke "Karl Roembke" (Indianapolis, IN, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Western Digital Scorpio Blue WD2500BEVE Hard Drive - 250GB - 5400rpm - Internal (Electronics)

I bought this drive because I wanted a LARGE PATA drive to upgrade my Compaq nc6220. Preferred retail packaging, because I thought any necessary screws, jumpers, software would be included. This is not the case here, so I subtracted one star for this. However, the retail packed drive was STILL CHEAPER than the OEM packaged drive. Inside the fancy retail box is a note that says basically "If you don't know what you're doing, get help and good luck." I found the software on WD's website easily enough. The downloaded software performed Windows registry changes that were necessary to recognize the drive's full capacity. Once that was done, I used Windows to format the drive. I now have 232Gb of disk space-- wow! The drive jumper information was more difficult to find on the WD website, and it was necessary because the 250 was installed first as a SECONDARY or SLAVE device, which required a jumper on the drive. If you find yourself in this situation, simply search the WD Knowledgebase for "jumper settings" and you will find the necessary info.

Despite the 4 star rating and the observations above, this is a fine hard disk to update older notebooks that have PATA disk interfaces. If you don't care about the stuff I mentioned, call it 5 stars for you!