With 1.2 million hours MTBF; 5-year limited warranty; 3 Gb/s SATA technology; and enhanced ... more
vibration tolerance; WD RE2 drives offer an ideal combination of reliability; high capacity; and optimum performance for enterprise applications.Stores Upto
Advantages: small, lots of storage and really reliable Disadvantages: less portable than a small form hard disk drive, needs main to use
This is my second hard drive. The first one I bought was a sony vaio that I bought off of ebay - a portable 120GB hard disk drive from the far east. It started giving me disk read and write errors about three to four months after I bought it. Moral of the story, buy from a reputable manufacturer and seller.
So I bought this from Amazon co uk, who are by far a superior online seller. Prices have come down and i managed to get this for £60 including free delivery. The drive is compact, not portable.
It needs to be plugged into mains as well as the computer which makes it less portable, but it is so quiet I can't even hear that is switched on even when it is writing or reading. I would highly recommend this product or even one of the bigger sized ones, though I couldn't afford the 1TB mybook.
Remember 500GB is marketing ...
The Western Digital Scorpio has it's own special features.
Now we will discuss about them.With available SATA or EIDE interfaces, WD Scorpio drives offer high-performance, low power consumption, and cool operation, perfect for notebooks and other portable devices.
Massive capacity -
Whether they are in an external drive or a notebook computer, WD Scorpio SATA drives are available in capacities up to 500GB and offer the most available capacity for space-hungry operating systems, like Window Vista, with plenty of room left over for photos, music, and video.
Fast and efficient -
With 5400 RPM spin speed and 12 ms access time and up to 3 Gb/s SATA interface speed, even the most demanding customer will appreciate the performance achieved by WD Scorpio drives.
This is best device we can trust ...
Advantages: Simple setup, Quiet, Small size, large capacity Disadvantages: none
SUMMARY
The Western Digital (WD) My Book Premium 500GB is a small, well built external hard drive which is quiet in operation, with excellent capacity and choice of USB 2 or Firewire connectivity. As someone who is interested in technology, photography and video editing, I often end up running low on storage space on my PC. I had been looking to get another hard drive for some time and had seen the WD advertised in a magazine at a reasonable price. I bought mine from an online retailer and as of March 2006 have been using it for 3 months and I have not experienced any problems with it.
FEATURES
Well without wanting to make it sound as though it's not a good product, because I think it is, there's not much to it, it's just an external hard drive, however it is stylish and feels well built. It is quiet as there is noisy fan, but it ...
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Performance
Drive Transfer Rate
300 MBps (external)
Internal Data Rate
98 MBps
Seek Time
8.9 ms (average) / 21 ms (max)
Track-to-Track Seek Time
0.6 ms
Average Latency
4.2 ms
Spindle Speed
7200 rpm
Reliability
MTBF
1,200,000 hour(s)
Non-Recoverable Errors
1 per 10^15
Start / Stop Cycles
50,000
Manufacturer's product description
WD RE2 hard drives are the world’s most reliable server-class SATA drives in the market. With 1.2 million hours MTBF, 3 Gb/s SATA technology, and best-in-class vibration tolerance, WD RE2 drives offer the best combination of superior reliability, high capacity, and optimum performance for enterprise applications.
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