Hard drive - 18 GB - internal - IDE/ATA

Advantages: 250GB of internal memory!! At a reasonable price, too!
Disadvantages: No major disadvantages. Not as quiet as I believed it would be.

...I purchased this drive as an upgrade of my Acer Aspire laptop's 60GB 2.5" internal hard drive, and so far I have been delighted with it! The reason I chose this drive in particular, was due to the fact that it is an ATA drive (not SATA). ATA is the older drive technology, and as my Acer laptop is a few years old, it unfortunately does not support the more recent (and higher capacity) SATA internal drives. SATA drives are far more widespread now and are a bit easier and cheaper to find than the older ATA drives, but if you have an older laptop model, you will probably have to buy an ATA drive such as this one. After searching high and low, this 250GB drive from Western Digital was the highest capacity ATA internal drive I could find at a reasonable price, and so far it has not let me down! It took a bit of effort to clone my original... Read review

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Advantages: Fast, reliable and small
Disadvantages: None

...The hard drive is meant to be used internally but I use mine as an external hard drive with an USB external enclosure. The drive might not be the fastest around but it is fast enough to use for those large files that makes life difficult. The fact that it uses SATA makes faster than IDE hard drives of the same size. The SATA also makes it very stable and up to date with the latest technology. I like the fact that you can buy it for such a low price as well. The only disadvantage I can think of is that when you damage the hard drive you won't be able to retrieve 250 GB of data. I hope this helps everyone who is thinking of buying one.... Read review

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Advantages: Great Speed and Reliability
Disadvantages: Could do with more memory

...The Western Digital Raptor is a phenominal hard drive. It runs at 10,000 rpm(compared to the average of 7,500 rpm) which makes for a very fast hard drive. It is a Serial ATA disk rather than an IDE disk which makes for not only faster speed(150 mbps) but less cable clutter thus making a more practical hard drive for PC builders and the less experienced PC user This product is at the peak of technology it is not just faster and more efficient than all of the other HDDs it excels their levels in every aspect by far. It also comes with a five year warranty, and as such is the ultimate hard drive. I would recommend this hard drive to PC users of all kinds.... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average somewhat helpful