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Western Digital Ships 750GB Scorpio Blue Hard Drive
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Posted by: Glenn
Western Digital today announced the release of their WD Scorpio Blue 750GB 2.5-inch hard drive. According to the company, this drive is the industry's highest capacity 2.5-inch hard drive to date in the standard-height (9.5mm) notebook form factor. It also boasts a two-platter design for greater areal density and utilizes Western Digital's Advanced Format technology to increase efficiency. The WD Scorpio Blue 750GB hard drive is available now for a suggested retail price of $149.
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philiparcario
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| Posted: Tue Mar 30, 2010 10:33 pm Post subject: |
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look like newegg has them
good price. I ordered 2 of them. I will post tests.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136546&Tpk=wd7500bpvt
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| Posted: Tue Mar 30, 2010 10:46 pm Post subject: |
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| philiparcario wrote: | | I ordered 2 of them. I will post tests. |
Very good price for such a large drive. I'm interested in your benchmarks, given it is a 5400RPM drive. We'll see if WD's advanced format technology is any good. I understand that it writes more data in less space. I wonder if this will speed things up or slow things down.
I'm sure you'll let us know if it is quiet, right Phil.  |
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| Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2010 3:11 am Post subject: |
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I find this funny!!!!
Good price tag for a small drive..
considering you can purchase a 2TB 2.5 inch drive from seagate for only 149.99 so why would you spend 149.99 for only 750 gig's
Not really that impressed. |
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| Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2010 8:08 am Post subject: |
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| Macman . . . as I'm sure others will be quick to state, this is for a 2.5 inch "notebook" drive, the same as used in a mini. There is no such thing as a 2 TB notebook drive . . . you are confusing it with a 3.5 inch desktop drive. As such, this is now the largest drive available for a laptop or mini and IS a good price. |
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| Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2010 8:45 am Post subject: |
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| Bandit Bill wrote: | | I'm sure you'll let us know if it is quiet, right Phil. |
I have yet to hear a noisy Scorpio Blue from WD. I think they are the quietest drives out there right now.
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| Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2010 9:34 am Post subject: |
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| macmanmacman wrote: | I find this funny!!!!
Good price tag for a small drive..
considering you can purchase a 2TB 2.5 inch drive from seagate for only 149.99 so why would you spend 149.99 for only 750 gig's
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macmanmacman some people just want the mini with no add ons. this is the biggest you can do without cutting up the insides. this is a lot of drive for an internal laptop. this will also fit in a macbook and a macbook pro 13 inch model.
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the Western digital 2.5 inch slim 750gb hdds came a day early. I mounted one in the mini oem hdd slot and it is a dead fit. I added 4g ram I will post results later today. so far I can say it is quiet.
the tests will be on a new 2.26ghz with 4gb ram 10.6.2 and 10.6.3. I will run a set of tests with the same mini and the stock 160gb hdd.
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| philiparcario wrote: | | the 750gb hdds came a day early. I mounted one in the mini oem hdd slot and it is a dead fit. I added 4g ram I will post results later today. so far I can say it is quiet. |
Very cool. I was hoping it would fit. So 9.5mm is the OEM size (height)? |
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yeah 9.5 it could fit a 11mm even 11.8mm but no one makes it.
THE test scores are very good for a 2.26ghz with 4gb ram 143 is the highest I have seen for a 5400 rpm drive. Tomorrow I will test a 640gb toshiba a 500gb samsung a 320 fujitsu and a 320 hitachi all are 5400rpm.
I have a bad seagate 500 gb 7200 rpm drive that is very loud but still runs fast. I have been waiting for it to die some more to send it in for a rma. the price went up to 119 from 109 I am glad I purchased 2 of them.
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| Posted: Sun Apr 04, 2010 2:05 am Post subject: Would this HD work with my mini? |
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This is off of my computer. I'm also running Snow Leopard. Thanks for any advice.
Model Name: Mac mini
Model Identifier: Macmini3,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 3 MB
Memory: 4 GB
Bus Speed: 1.07 GHz
Boot ROM Version: MM31.0081.B06
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macmanmacman
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yes there is!!!!!
Seagate has released a pocket usb 2.0 2tb drive with a notebook sata hard drive inside for 149.99 checks fry's |
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| macmanmacman wrote: | http://www.frys.com/product/6068238?site=sr:SEARCH:MAIN_RSLT_PG
Here is the link!!!!
now 179.99 |
What you posted is an External Hard Drive, not the same thing as what was originally posted by the thread starter. |
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| macmanmacman wrote: | http://www.frys.com/product/6068238?site=sr:SEARCH:MAIN_RSLT_PG
Here is the link!!!!
now 179.99 |
I think you'd find if you searched it isn't even a 2.5" inside but a 3.5".
http://www.electronicsme.com/product_review.php?pid=4375
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