Western Digital Scorpio WD2500BEVE 250 GB

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Western Digital Scorpio WD2500BEVE 250 GB

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250GB Beast!

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5 May 2nd, 2008 

3 Ciao members have rated this review on average: helpful

Advantages:
250GB of internal memory !  !  At a reasonable price, too !

Disadvantages:
No major disadvantages .  Not as quiet as I believed it would be .

Recommendable Yes:

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buckyohare

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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 hard drive to the new one, which required the purchase of an external hard drive enclosure, but once the process was completed, I simply removed my old hard drive, insterted the new one and was ready to go! And now I have my old 60GB drive in the external case, for use as an external drive, so nothing has gone to waste in the upgrade!

The drive has been completely reliable and performs exactly as expected. The only slight quibble I have is that despite the manufacturer's claim that it is one of the quietest drives around, it is slightly louder than my old one. Regardless of this however, it is still pretty quiet and the noise level is not a problem even when left on at night. All in all I would thoroughly recommend it to anyone looking to upgrade their current internal hard drive, or even to those looking for a 2.5" drive for external use. 

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