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Western Digital Scorpio Blue 250GB 2.5" PATA 5400RPM 8MB Bulk/OEM Hard Drive WD2500BEVE

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Brand: Western Digital
Category: CE

List Price: ~~$7,514.94~~
Buy New: $79.95
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Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

23 reviews
Sales Rank: 555

Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Hard Drive Size: 250
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 7.1 x 2.6
Warranty: 3 years warranty

MPN: WD2500BEVE
Model: WD2500BEVE
UPC: 718037724515
EAN: 0718037724515
ASIN: B000W3RPLC

Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

Features:

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Editorial Reviews:

Product Description
WD Scorpio mobile hard drive delivers best-in-class performance with low power consumption and cool operation. In addition, you'll get one of the quietest 2.5-inch drives on the market with real-time data protection technology to help keep your data safe.ive, silence is golden. WD's exclusive WhisperDrive combines state-of-the-art seeking algorithms to yield one of the quietest 2.5-inch hard drives on the market. Optimizing the way a drive seeks for data also aids significantly in saving power. So now silence with longer battery life is golden.WD's ShockGuard technology protects the drive mechanics and platter surfaces from shocks. WD's SecurePark parks the recording heads off the disk surface during spin up, spin down and when the drive is off. This ensures the recording head never touches the disk surface resulting in improved long term reliability due to less head wear and improved non-operational shock tolerance.

Customer Reviews: Read 18 more reviews...

5 out of 5 stars

big and quiet March 14, 2008
S. Nechaev (NC, USA)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful

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!

5 out of 5 stars

Works perfectly July 14, 2008
Sunil Nagaraj (Chapel Hill, NC United States)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful

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

5 out of 5 stars

Great drive, great price July 18, 2008
M. Henderson (Provo, UT USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful

This drive replaced a 3+ year-old 60 GB drive in my iBook G4. The new drive is as quiet as the old one, as responsive as the old one, and quadruple the capacity. I'm totally satisfied with my purchase.

5 out of 5 stars

Western Digital Scorpio 250GB PATA Hard Drive February 8, 2008
Craven Morehead
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED replacement for 17" PowerBook G4. Upgrading from 60GB to 250GB gives you maximum storage for EIDE/ATA drives available today. Provided you backed-up (cloned) your original drive to an external HD using Carbon Copy Cloner or Super Duper, it's a snap to restore the new drive to pre-installation status. This drive runs cooler and faster than original 4200 rpm HD. The processor generates the most heat on PowerBooks and that heat does not affect the hard drive. Follow the step-by-step directions available in the free installation guides at http://www.ifixit.com to do the hard drive switch yourself. No problems whatsoever with this WD hard drive.

5 out of 5 stars

Remarkable value March 12, 2008
J. Barnhart (Santa Clara, CA United States)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

I bought this drive, the WD2500BEVE 250GB PATA disk drive, for less than $130 and used it to replace the Seagate 160GB drive in my IBM Thinkpad T42. To perform the transfer, I used a drive tray that permits a second hard disk to be added to the Thinkpad and Acronis Disk Director software to copy the partitions.

The speed of this drive seems at least as fast as the Seagate it replaced. It is virutally silent and was barely warm after copying all of my partitions. Considering the price and 3-year warranty, it is a remarkable bargain in storage for your laptop.

Highly recommended.