Western Digital Scorpio Blue 500 GB Bulk/OEM Hard Drive 2.5 Inch, 8 MB Cache, 5400 RPM SATA II WD5000BEVT
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Customer Review: Very Pleased
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought this drive as a birthday present for my son as the original drive that came with the notebook crashed and burned in less than 6 months. The drive is now in a Pavillion dv7 series HP notebook. I watched the video from Western Digital on how to change the drives out. It took me about 15 minutes to switch the drives - I was having trouble with the screws on the notebook, nothing to do with the drive itself. It was very easy to install and I'm no computer repair expert. I am impressed with this drive as it runs quietly, just as advertised, and is much faster than the original HP drive. I have used Western Digital drives for years in my desktop computers. I had to use the warranty on one drive a while back and WD replaced the drive, no questions asked. If you're looking for a quality drive that is moderately priced with a great warranty, this is the drive for you. I plan to put another WD 500GB drive in the secondary bay soon. I believe you will be just as impressed as I am with this drive for it's smooth, quiet running and ease of installation and set up. It works right out of the box. WD ROCKS!!!!!
Customer Review: Great And Easy Drive
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought this drive for my Toshiba Satellite L505 series laptop after filling up the 320 GB one that came with it. I also got a 4gb stick of RAM. All of this was under $100 and I gave myself a full day to install both pieces. It took me under an hour to put them into my laptop and it took me almost the rest of the time to install windows 7. I only had to remove a handful of screws and plugging in the new components and I was done. It is quiet, doesn't get hot at all, and runs smoothly with no problems. I would recommend this hard drive to everyone. (It came in 2 days with super saver shipping)
PS. If your old hard drive is still working fine I would recommend putting it into an external enclosure like this one... Acomdata Tango USB 2.0/eSATA 2.5-Inch SATA Hard Drive Enclosure TNGXXXUSE-RED (Red)
That is what i did and it creates a very nice portable external hard drive for cheap (it does not come with an eSATA cable)
Customer Review: Great product at a very good price!
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought this HD to use as an external storage device to transport my media files for playback on various devices. This is my first purchase of a 2.5" drive. As soon as it arrived, I unwrapped the HD and inserted it into a Vantec NexStar TX 2.5-Inch SATA to USB 2.0 External Hard Drive Enclosure and plugged it into my computer. Initially, my computer recognized the HD as a "USB Device" but not a storage device and so I couldn't figure out how to access the HD in order to format it so my computer would recognize it as a storage device. So, I did a quick search on Download'.'com and found some freeware that would do the trick. Once I formatted it with the downloaded software, my computer immediately recognized it.
For less than 55 bucks, this drive is a steal. Works perfectly for my needs. If I encounter any problems with this drive, I'll be sure to update this review, but I doubt that'll be the case.
Customer Review: Works great with the mid 2009 13" MacBook Pro
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought this drive as a upgrade to my mid-2009 MacBook Pro. I did much research as the new MBP is said to suffer compatibility issues with third party upgrades. After doing much reasearch it seems this model would be the right balance between compatibility (with the MBP), performance (ranked #3 topped only by the Seagate Momentus and WD Scorpio Black), and power utilization (consumes 1 watt vs the stock .8 watt compared to the rest ranging from 1.2 watts up).
Installation required a "torx #6" tool to remove the MBP mounting screws from the stock hard drive which was reused on the WD. Installation was a breeze and the drive works great. I have not experienced any issues with beeping and pausing that many have reported with the Seagate Momentus (possibly MBP specific) nor did I notice any increase in noise over the stock drive. I did not measure battery life but it does consume an extra .2 watts. I recommend this drive to anyone intrested in upgrading their mid-2009 MacBook Pro.
Customer Review: This is "The Hard Drive" for the PS3
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought this hard drive a few months ago due to the lack of space of my PS3 80 GB hard drive. I made a back up of the data from the PS3 hard drive, and then I removed the old one and installed the new one (500 GB nice!) and it was immediately detected and formatted in a few instants. I transferred all of the PS3 data, everything ran fine and right now I have used like 150 GB and I still have plenty space left for use for demos, videos, music, saves, download content, etc.
About this drive I must say:
Pros:
It's a Western Digital.
Compatible with PS3 recommended specs (for instance: 5400 RPM, 2.5-inch hard drive).
Size 500 GB.
Cons:
The package does not seem to be very secure with those air bags included, not sure if those air bags will fully protect an OEM hard drive.
Despite of that minor inconvenient, Western Digital hard disks ROCKS!!.
100% recommended.
5 stars.