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Item Width7 centimetres
Screen Size46 inches
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- Massive capacity - Whether they are in an external drive or a notebook computer, WD Scorpio Blue 2.5-inch drives offer the most available capacity for space-hungry operating systems like Windows Vista, plus plenty of room left over for photos, music, and video
- Fast and Efficient - With 5400 RPM spin speed - even the most demanding customer will appreciate the performance achieved by WD Scorpio Blue drives
- Quiet - In a notebook drive, 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. These algorithms also optimize the way a drive seeks for data, which significantly improves power consumption. So now silence (and longer battery life) is golden
- Reliable and Rugged - 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
- Tested for Compatibility - We perform tests on hundreds of systems and a multitude of platforms in our FIT Lab and Mobile Compatibility Lab to give our customers confidence that our drives will work in their systems.
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Manufacturer's Description
With available SATA or EIDE interfaces, WD Scorpio Blue drives offer high-performance, low power consumption, and cool operation, perfect for notebooks and other portable devices. Pick the drive that suits your needs with the confidence in knowing that all WD Scorpio Blue drives are built to the highest standards of quality and reliability
To make drive selection simple, we've gathered all our popular 5400 RPM WD Scorpio drives under one umbrella we call WD Scorpio Blue. Built to Western Digital's awarding winning quality standards, these drives are available in a full range of performance features
Up to 71,400 digital photos Up to 62,500 songs (MP3) Up to 6,250 songs (uncompressed CD quality) Up to 19 hours of Digital Video (DV) Up to 110 hours of DVD quality video Up to 30 hours of HD video
Product Description
Western Digital Scorpio 250GB 5400rpm EIDE 8MB 2.5 inch Hard DriveWD Scorpio delivers best-in-class performance with low power requirements comparable to much slower notebook drives. In addition, you'll get the quietest 2.5-inch drive on the market with real-time data protection technology to help keep your data safe. Features:Up to 34,000 digital photos Up to 30,000 songs (MP3) Up to 3,000 songs (uncompressed CD quality) Up to 9 hours of Digital Video (DV) Up to 53 hours of DVD quality video Up to 14 hours of HD video Fast and efficient - Spins at 5400 RPM for fast performance but has power specs similar to slower 4200 RPM drives. Low power consumption yields increased reliability Quiet - WD's exclusive WhisperDrive technology with SoftSeek algorithms make this the quietest 2.5-inch hard drive, regardless of spin speed Reliable - WD's ShockGuard technology protects the drive mechanics and platter surfaces from shocks. WD's DuraStep Ramp locks the heads in a secure position away from the disk to provide another layer of protection when the drive is not in use. Utilizing the most technologically advanced material available, the drive can perform a minimum of 600,000 load/unload cycles without contamination - up to twice the performance of its competitors Rugged - WD Scorpio's rigid stainless steel top cover withstands more than 5 pounds of pressure - nearly 1.5 times the industry average - without pinching vital internal components Portable digital devices of all kinds, including notebook computers, portable external storage, digital audio, GPS systems, and tablet PCs. Up to 34,000 digital photos Up to 30,000 songs (MP3) Up to 3,000 songs (uncompressed CD quality) Up to 9 hours of Digital Video (DV) Up to 53 hours of DVD quality video Up to 14 hours of HD video Fast and efficient - Spins
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
NOTE: This review is for the Western Digital Scorpio Blue 120GB EIDE 8MB cache Internal OEM.
I've been the happy owner of Dell Inspiron 8600 laptop for the past 7 years. A very nice machine, it has always worked flawlessly. For the past couple of years, however, the internal IDE hard drive performance has been steadily deteriorating. A very good HD at the time (Hitachi Travelstar 7200rpm), in the past months has become so noisy and slow as to make computer usage almost impossible. Firefox loaded in no less than 3 minutes, and let's not even talk of Photoshop, etc. The crucial detail here is that I was pretty sure that the WHOLE laptop had become inadequate: I felt that not enough RAM (I have 1GB), maybe a too slow processor, etc. were making my computing experience a nightmare.
So I was about ready to prepare a funeral to my trustworthy companion and was already looking at the Dell website for new laptops offers, when I stumbled upon this WD Scorpio IDE 120GB. Reviews were encouraging, installation seemed pretty easy, and 40£ wouldn't hurt the wallet too much. It came in pretty quickly. I should also report that, as another reviewer pointed out, it came in really poorly packed (small padded bag..this is precision electronics!!) from the amazon merchant kikatek. Luckily though, nothing went wrong.
Well I'm happy to report that I'm incredibly satisfied with the product: I'm no tech expert but I managed to install the hard drive in a matter of minutes. It was then a matter of a couple of hours to perform a clean install of Windows XP and Ubuntu (but there are tools out there to back up your former OS and dump it on the new hard drive for an exact copy of your work environment should you prefer this).
The difference can be only defined as astounding. These must be the best 40£ I've ever spent on pc components. Believe me when I say that now it feels like my computer is living a second youth:
-The WD Scorpio is INCREDIBLY quiet to start with, there is simply no comparison with my former hitachi hd. I can only hear a *faint* clicking when the primary fan is off and I'm my room in silence at night. The things is, this laptop is now more silent than it was when I originally bought it.
-while working at only 5400rpm, it operates smoothly and effortlessly. Everything loads faster then on the old 7200 hitachi hd. I no longer have time to go in the kitchen and prepare a cup of espresso before I finally get to see my homepage on firefox.
-The size of this WD Scorpio is double the size of my former internal hd. This is nice: while I wasn't craving for more hd space (in an era of external hds and pendrives everywhere, I was quite happy with what I had) it's a welcome addition.
-No problems with BIOS recognition whatsoever (revision A14).
I hope I managed to convey that I believe buying this WD 120gb scorpio was a wise move that will hopefully prolong the life of this "granddad-ptop" for at least another year.
NOTE: in my case, the major performance bottleneck was the HD. Some people with old laptops and less than 1GB RAM might want to consider a RAM update as well.
I've been the happy owner of Dell Inspiron 8600 laptop for the past 7 years. A very nice machine, it has always worked flawlessly. For the past couple of years, however, the internal IDE hard drive performance has been steadily deteriorating. A very good HD at the time (Hitachi Travelstar 7200rpm), in the past months has become so noisy and slow as to make computer usage almost impossible. Firefox loaded in no less than 3 minutes, and let's not even talk of Photoshop, etc. The crucial detail here is that I was pretty sure that the WHOLE laptop had become inadequate: I felt that not enough RAM (I have 1GB), maybe a too slow processor, etc. were making my computing experience a nightmare.
So I was about ready to prepare a funeral to my trustworthy companion and was already looking at the Dell website for new laptops offers, when I stumbled upon this WD Scorpio IDE 120GB. Reviews were encouraging, installation seemed pretty easy, and 40£ wouldn't hurt the wallet too much. It came in pretty quickly. I should also report that, as another reviewer pointed out, it came in really poorly packed (small padded bag..this is precision electronics!!) from the amazon merchant kikatek. Luckily though, nothing went wrong.
Well I'm happy to report that I'm incredibly satisfied with the product: I'm no tech expert but I managed to install the hard drive in a matter of minutes. It was then a matter of a couple of hours to perform a clean install of Windows XP and Ubuntu (but there are tools out there to back up your former OS and dump it on the new hard drive for an exact copy of your work environment should you prefer this).
The difference can be only defined as astounding. These must be the best 40£ I've ever spent on pc components. Believe me when I say that now it feels like my computer is living a second youth:
-The WD Scorpio is INCREDIBLY quiet to start with, there is simply no comparison with my former hitachi hd. I can only hear a *faint* clicking when the primary fan is off and I'm my room in silence at night. The things is, this laptop is now more silent than it was when I originally bought it.
-while working at only 5400rpm, it operates smoothly and effortlessly. Everything loads faster then on the old 7200 hitachi hd. I no longer have time to go in the kitchen and prepare a cup of espresso before I finally get to see my homepage on firefox.
-The size of this WD Scorpio is double the size of my former internal hd. This is nice: while I wasn't craving for more hd space (in an era of external hds and pendrives everywhere, I was quite happy with what I had) it's a welcome addition.
-No problems with BIOS recognition whatsoever (revision A14).
I hope I managed to convey that I believe buying this WD 120gb scorpio was a wise move that will hopefully prolong the life of this "granddad-ptop" for at least another year.
NOTE: in my case, the major performance bottleneck was the HD. Some people with old laptops and less than 1GB RAM might want to consider a RAM update as well.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Excellent in all aspects. I've bought three of these drives, they all formatted and installed without a hitch. No heat problem and almost silent in operation. I'm happy to recommend this product and would have no problem whatsoever in ordering the same drive again. Superb.!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Quiet, large capacity, simple to install and does the job. Probably need something like Norton Ghost and a certainly the means to connect the disc to another disc to do a laptop drive swap, but worth the hassle and time.
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