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Western Digital 250 GB Scorpio PATA 2 5 Hard Drive
By admin | August 29, 2008
Western Digital 250 GB Scorpio PATA 2 5 Hard Drive
WD Scorpio mobile hard drive delivers best-in-class performance with low power consumption and cool operation. In addition, you’ll get one of the quietest 2.5-inch drives on the market with real-time data protection technology to help keep your data safe.ive, 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. Optimizing the way a drive seeks for data also aids significantly in saving power. So now silence with longer battery life is golden.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.
User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars Works perfectly
Great drive. Simple installation. Note that this is a PATA drive (wide hard-drive connector cables).
5 Stars NOT IN STOCK, expected sometime April 1st-7th 2008
Amazon hasn’t changed their ad to show that this isn’t in stock, so just a heads-up… I ordered this March 14 2008 and on March 20th received an email giving an estimated arrival date of April 1st through April 7th.
As for the 5-star rating, I already have a few of these and they’re nice drives. My only complaint is that they’re not 500G. 
5 Stars WD HD
Excellent product. Never experienced any problems with any WD drives however this one seems to run slightly louder than the 60 Gig WD drive that was stock on my dell notebook.
5 Stars Replaced another drive in an external enclosure.
This works perfectly. Popped out the old drive from the external enclosure, plugged this new one in and it works like a top.
5 Stars Rejuvinate your notebook
Bought this HDD to expand my T43p’s measly 60GB space. Dropped it into a 2nd HDD adapter for IBM thinkpad ultrabay slim. No hassle installation with formating done WinXP’s built in HDD partioting and formating options. Since then copied the bulkiest folder to this freeing up space from the bootup disk. Loving it. Almost noiseless even in a quiet room at night. Must appreciate the concept of keeping of the disk during powerup and power down to minimize damage probability.
Will update as it goes. Must say it extended the life of my notebook which otherwise is perfectly fine.
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