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Click on the picture to see a closer image of each hard disk. The Western Digital disk is marked with the number 3. While you can usually expand your desktop PCs storage space by adding a second hard disk, notebooks offer two big obstacles: theres...
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Notebook hard disks tend to be far less spacious than those found in desktop PCs, but Western Digitals 250GB Scorpio is the roomiest notebook disk yet, rivalling the capacity of some of its desktop counterparts. The Scorpio is also one of the faste...
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Western Digital has recently made available a 250GB 2.5” Serial ATA notebook drive which makes it the biggest on the market. We take a look and compare its performance to some other popular notebook drives. The model of drive we’re looking at...
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Western Digital has announced its range of 250GB SATA laptop hard drives, and we have the first unit in the country under the microscope.
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Western Digitals Scorpio WD2500BEVS makes it possible for notebook computers to pack a quarter of a terabyte of hard drive space on a single internal drive. Its the first 2.5in-sized drive weve seen with such a capacity and its sure to be a hit not...
250GB capacity, Good performer, Cool and quiet operation, Competitive price...
Unknown mean time between failure The Final Word Western Digitals 250GB Scorpio is currently the largest capacity notebook hard drive on the market. However, its large capacity and cool and quiet characteristics also make it an interesting proposition...
Western Digitals 250GB Scorpio is currently the largest capacity notebook hard drive on the market. However, its large capacity and cool and quiet characteristics also make it an interesting proposition for a media centre PC.
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Notebooks and laptop PCs of late have become rivals to that of the desktop market. This holds true when you look at the specs of the new notebooks coming out. Processor power is hitting the 2.5 GHz mark, memory sizes are in excess of 1GB and mobile GPU...
Magnetic storage is soon to enter “end game”. With Solid State drives now starting to gain in speed and size, the days for the magnetic HDD are soon to see the end of the tunnel. While it’s still a few years away at least, we have to dea...
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Western Digital has done little to promote their line of notebook drives, and with the flagship drive coming in at just 120 GB, its not hard to see why. Rated according to the usual slew of benchmarks and performance tests, this Scorpio is not particu...
The Scorpio joins notebook drives from Samsung (MP0402H) and Seagate (5400.2 & 5400.3) as one of the quietest drives that money can buy. Choosing between these three drives is more or less a matter of availability and price. Deciding on a firm ranking...
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A large capacity drive suitable for notebook upgrades...
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Western Digital has pulled off a significant coup with its 250GB Scorpio notebook hard drive; the device is the current capacity champion. (Fujitsu has also announced a 250GB drive but has not shipped it yet.) Packing 250GB into two platters, the areal...
Provides enough space to rip all your Bluray movies.
Lags in performance; pathetic oneyear warrenty.
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Traditionally, desktop drives (3.5-inch) have always been the ones to have larger capacities over notebook drives (2.5-inch) due to the physical size. That changed just a few months ago with the introduction of the Western Digital 250GB Scorpio. Runnin...
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The 250GB Scorpio drive is a great addition or upgrade for anyone looking for the maximum storage possible in the 2.5" form factor. In addition to a traditional installation inside a computer, the 250GB Scorpio drive would make an excellent choice for...
Largest 2.5" hard drive on market, Performs better than other 5400RPM drives, Performs almost as well as a 3 Gbps drive in some tests, Runs cool and quiet, Compatible with Playstation 3...
SATA 1.5Gbps interface, Three year warranty is OK, but five years is obviously better...
Western Digital has produced another top notch hard drive. The Scorpio 250GB 2.5" SATA Hard Drive is a great addition or upgrade for anyone looking for the maximum storage possible in the 2.5" form factor. With a 250GB drive in your laptop, a great dea...
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hothardware.com Updated: 2014-01-03 21:31:42
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Most of you probably already know that 2.5" notebook hard drives typically arent as big or fast as hard drives found in desktop machines. In case you arent aware, most laptops are sold with 5400RPM hard drives that range from 60GB to 100GB. In cont...
The Scorpio WD2500BEVS performed quite well. We were very happy with its performance compared to the Toshiba 5400RPM 2.5" drive. And we were pleasantly surprised with how its performance still looked pretty good in comparison to a 7200RPM 3.5" deskto...
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We finally got our hands on a Western Digital Scorpio (WD2500BEVS) 250GB 5400rpm notebook drive (courtesy of Wiebetech). Many of you are wondering how it compares to the Seagate Momentus 7200.2 160GB 7200rpm notebook drive optional on the newest MacBoo...
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