Manufacturer's Description
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.
Massive capacity - whether they are in an external drive or a notebook computer 500 GB WD Scorpio Blue 2.5-inch drives offer the most available capacity for space-hungry operating systems like Windows Vista plus plenty of room left over for photos music and video.
Quiet - in a notebook drive silence is golden. WDs 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
Box Contains
- Western Digital Scorpio Blue 500GB Sata 8MB Cache 2.5 Inch Internal Hard Drive
Customer Reviews
PS3 upgrade
Works like a dream, I just cant Sony are making such an issue of selling the different versions of the ps3, especially the limited edition 160gb version.
Buy the cheapest and get this upgrade is my advice!!
Words of warning though!! get the correct screwdriver before you start(I have the draper expert number 1), the screws are insanely tight and are made of some of the softest materials man can buy!
Have a read up on Sonys site they have a forum and dozens of people have wrecked the screws! http://uk.playstation.com/ps3/
Use an external drive and backup everything in system settings, makes the whole process easier, saves you having to install every game again.
You may also need the newest update on a memorystick, currently version 2.53, needs to be in "PS3/UPDATE" (in caps) on the stick otherwise it wont see it, full instructions are on the sony site also!
I also checked out some upgrade videos on youtube, search "ps3 upgrade" easy.
Hope this helped. I'm over the moon with my system now, runs cooler than before and have started copying over all of media!
brilliant upgrade for PS3
Great upgrade, i now have all my (very large) music collection on my PS3, as well as all my photo collection and i don't have to worry about deleting trailers and demos to free up space. fantastic.
just be careful with those screws if you're removing/refitting into the PS3. don't even THINK about starting til you have the correct size screwdriver, as you'll just chew the heads up!!!
Easy harddrive upgrade
I purchased this HardDrive after searching for one for ages, i had previously looked at other Western Digital Scorpio`s but settled on this one after reading the other two reviews.
Installing into my 60 gig PS3 was a breeze, i ordered the drive from Amazon on Monday it came Thursday (fast and free delivery)
I backed up my old harddrive in about an hour, it took less then 5 mins to unscrew my old drive out and put my new Scorpio Blue in and reformat
the drive, and about 1 and a half hours to restore my backed up data.
Nice and quiet and fast, id recomend this drive
also Amazon dropped the price abit after i purchased, still £85 cant go wrong, Thanks Amazon
