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WD Scorpio Blue 5400 RPM 2.5-inch SATA hard drives from Western Digital deliver lightning-fast and ultra-quiet performance hand-in-hand with low power consumption. In addition, they are designed with ruggedness, reliability, and data-protection features that actively watch over valuable data. Available in capacities from 160 to 640 GB, these drives feature a 3 Gb/s SATA interface and 8 MB cache. WD Scorpio Blue hard drives are designed for portable digital devices of all kinds, including notebook computers, external storage, and digital media players.

Size: 500 GB Brand: Western Digital Model: WD5000BEVT Platform: Windows Format: CD Original language: English Number of items: 1 Dimensions: .37" h x 2.75" w x 3.94" l, .26 pounds Hard Disk: 500GB Display size: 55 Ships in Certified Frustration-Free Packaging WD's exclusive WhisperDrive yields one of the quietest 2.5-inch hard drives on the market. WD's ShockGuard technology protects the drive mechanics and platter surfaces from shocks With 5400 RPM spin speed and 12 ms access time and up to 3 GB/s SATA interface speed

It's easy to choose the world-class quality of a Western Digital hard drive. We’ve not only designed a drive that's right for you, we've also made it simple to find. These drives are ideal for business, home use, or high performance desktops, and are available in capacities up to 2 TB. With our renowned leading-edge engineering, you'll always make the right choice with WD. And you'll never compromise on quality. The power of choice. The quality of WD. WD Scorpio® Blue™ Performance and reliability for everyday computing.Select true blue for reliable quality in everyday use. WD Scorpio® Black™ Maximum performance for power computing. Select black when you demand the highest performance. WD Scorpio Blue – Big capacity for portable computing. With available SATA or EIDE interfaces, WD Scorpio Blue drives offer high-performance, low power consumption, and cool operation, perfect for notebooks and other portable devices. Pick the drive that suits your needs with the confidence in knowing that all WD Scorpio Blue drives are built to the highest standards of quality and reliability. Features at a glance Massive capacity Low power consumption Ultra-cool and quiet 3-year limited warranty WD Scorpio Blue 2.5-inch drives offer high-performance, low power consumption and cool operation, making them ideal for notebooks and other portable devices. Massive capacity - Whether they are in an external drive or a notebook computer, WD Scorpio Blue SATA drives continue to offer the highest capacity for space-hungry operating systems with plenty of room left over for photos, music, and video. A slight increase in overall drive height (750 GB and 1 TB only) has driven storage capacity for 2.5-inch form factor drives upwards to a realm once thought to be impossible.* *750 GB and 1 TB models are 12.5 mm high and may not be compatible with all notebook systems. Consult system specifications for maximum allowable drive height before attempting to install. Quiet - In a notebook drive, silence is golden. WD’s exclusive WhisperDrive™ combines state-of-the-art seeking algorithms to yield one of the quietest 2.5-inch hard drives on the market. These algorithms also optimize the way a drive seeks for data, which significantly improves power consumption. So now silence (and longer battery life) is golden. Reliable and rugged - WD's ShockGuard technology protects the drive mechanics and platter surfaces from shocks. WD's SecurePark™ parks the recording heads off the disk surface during spin up, spin down, and when the drive is off. This ensures the recording head never touches the disk surface resulting in improved long term reliability due to less head wear, and improved non-operational shock tolerance. View SecurePark demo here. Fast and efficient - Ultra-fast 3 Gb/s SATA interface speed yields performance fit for demanding mobile applications. Tested for compatibility - We perform tests on hundreds of systems and a multitude of platforms in our FIT Lab™ and Mobile Compatibility Lab to give our customers confidence that our drives will work in their systems. Ideal For Portable digital devices of all kinds, including notebook computers, external storage, and digital media players.

Most helpful customer reviews 177 of 180 people found the following review helpful. Excellent hard drive for PS3 and laptop computers with NiteWalker the first time the existence of two product listings for this drive, both identical except for the ASIN number. One was listed as independent, the other as shown in the Western Digital Scorpio Blue page with drop-down menu of all different size hard disks in the series. I have no idea what the difference is. Amazon, for some reason, won the 500 GB quote from the dropdown menu and now has its own page. Strangely, they chose that direction. It would have made more sense for the individual to delete. Ok, this is for PS3 owners / upgrade. This unit fits beautifully on PS3 and runs cool without problems. For the price you can not go wrong. I have 40 GB PS3 (Spider Man 3 package) and data (store + system) on about 10 games and I had almost no space. I have a lot of research on different SATA 2.5 5 portable drives' free I tried all the different brands and criticism and rates vs. size. I came to the conclusion that a disk is made of 500 GB for $ 100 a bargain considering the extra space, so that was the direction I am. Of all the brands seemed Western Digital Scorpio Blue series with the positive comments about the least comments indicating the failure have a hard drive, it is the one I chose. The installation was very easy after a backup of my data. The longest part of the whole procedure was backing up and restoring data. I will not go into details, but I recommend the software used to format a further review of external hard drives larger than 32GB in the FAT32 file system. This is called "fat32format." It works very good and very fast (less than 4 seconds for a 120 GB external hard drive). Just follow the instructions and you're good. I did this because to recognize for the PS3, the external drive to the FAT32 file system must be formatted. Concerning the process of updating the PS3, just google "hard drive upgrade the PS3" and get tons of video tutorials and now here's one important thing: A lot of people have improved their PS3 and saw xxx/465 GB free after the update without realizing that this is not the fault of the PS3. You can put the same drive on a laptop and has the same 465GB. This is because manufacturers announced a gigabyte as something other than windows or PS3 recognize. Manufacturers see a gigabyte (GB) 1000 megabytes and a megabyte (MB) 1000 kilobytes (KB), when in fact Windows is 1 MB to 1024 MB. So that is where the missing space is lost. So from now on, my opinion is that this unit is a great option for updates to PS3. If you do not want to drop a bill on the 500 GB version of the blues also have Scorpio in smaller sizes at discounted prices. I like this hard drive so you can replace a hard drive of the laptop. 177 out of 180 people found the following review helpful Great upgrade for Aluminum MacBook ... Juan Aguirre I bought the new aluminum MacBook (13 "- late 2008), with 160 GB hard drive, which quickly fell short of my storage needs, while at the market to upgrade the hard drive, I came across the WD Scorpio Blue 500 GB. and hesitant at first (I had nowhere to a place that ensure that it would work with my MB), I decided to go for it. After receiving my hard drive I have Time Machine to run on my MB , OEM shifted hard for this beauty (it took about 15 minutes.) Leopard from the DVD that came installed with my MB, and then from the last TM backup (OS install took about 10 minutes and restore the backup took about 2 hours again - it was a 140GB backup) So far I had no problems with the drive ..! It is very quiet, not heated excesively (comparable truly original hard drive), and now I have a MB with a 500 GB drive! I am very pleased with this unit, and