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If you are looking for a 2.5 inch mechanical hard drive there are only really two names to consider- Western Digital and Seagate. Recent consolidations of manufacturers only underscore this fact. Both have a history of making highly reliable drives at a moderate price. The WD Blue is nearly as fast as the Black version and it does its work using less power. WD has arguably the best head parking hardware (important with the read/write heads floating less than a hair's width above the magnetic media and the vulnerability of Laptops. Competing Seagate drives are actually hybrids using SS memory to augment their speed. Nevertheless, Seagate is only barely faster on mostly non-repetitive data. I've used multiple WD and Seagate drives in my computers daily for over two decades and my personal experience has been that both should last well over a decade with a slight edge for WD. This reliability is still a goal for their competitors. Will the reliability consolidated manufacturers reach those of the parent companies ... only time will tell..Read full review
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Wesern Digital hard drives are hands down the best hard drives on the market. No one can compete with their technology. The Scorpio line of hard drives are WD's laptop hard drives (2.5"). The two types refer to the rpm (speed of rotation) Blue rotates at 5400 rpms. Black rotates at 7200 rpms. Benefits of higher rpms are that data transfers faster. disadvantages are your computer runs hotter and the hard drive is louder. It is important to match your hard drive speed with the recommended computer specs. Overall, this is a very good hard drive that runs quiet and cool with a whopping 500GB!!!! Western Digital is all you need to say to know that it is a top quality hard drive
No difference noticed with the refurb 500 GB Hard Drive. It passed all Western Digital Factory surface scans and tests and I loaded both XP & Vista on it with all drivers and updates and it worked flawlessly. I'm going to install a copy of win 7 on it permanently. High quality, silent, fast. Very happy with a refurb that was much less than a new drive.
It is easy to install and it booted up with the disc right away. It's larger size than the it replaced will be used for extra music and pictures. I think this product would do well by anyone that is thinking about purchasing it.
Installed this in my first gen macbook white and works great so far. The orginal seagate 80 GB that came with it just died after 5 1/2 years. Tried the other western digital model WD5000BPVT (advance format technology) best buy was selling and it will not install. Price is bit jacked up due to Thailand calamity I guess. But I need a replacement now. Heard it sold for $60 before that. Oh well. Hope it last as long as my old seagate.
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