Product ReviewsWestern Digital Scorpio Black 500GB Internal 7200RPM 2.5" (WD5000BPKT) HDD

For older machines much bang for the buck with the Scorpio Black.

I have an older mac with the slower hd transfer rate of 1.5 Gbs and was debating about putting in a newer 3 or 6 Gbs solid state OWC drive or this 7200 rpm drive. I bought and tried both and found the difference in write speed negligible 95 mbs vs. 60 gas for my purposes, and the read speed likewise, 155 mbs vs. 98 using blackmagic speed disk software to measure. This boiled down to no noticeable difference for light users like me, not photoshopping, not movie editing, not doing 5 things at once. For my occasional heavier use I like having the Black Scorpio with the larger capacity. Comparison was with OWC Mercury 3g 60gb and this WD Scorpio Black 7200 rpm 320gb, the cost was identical. Running Samsung 830's in my newer macs and without question that is the way to go with them, this review was done using an older plastic macbook model a1181.Read full review...

A great Hard Drive

This is a really good hard drive. It's super fast, super reliable so far. I put this drive in my macbook to replace the 250 gb 5400 rpm drive. I noticed a big performance jump. The only negative thing i have to say is that the new drive is a little louder than the factory drive and I notice a slight decrease in battery life of my laptop. All in all I love this drive.Read full review...

Great little drive. Great external, storage drive.

Great little hard drive. And, I got mine real cheap too! It was used, but has held up well. I use it in an external case. FOR LESS THAN FORTY DOLLARS, I HAVE NOT HAD A BETTER DEAL! If you run across one, dont hesitate to snatch it up, well worth the price for a new one. Performs magnifigantly.Read full review...

The best, most reliable spinning laptop drive you can get.

Western Digital spinning drives are my favorite. This 500 gb laptop drive, running at 7200 rpm is about as good you are going to experience without going to an SSD type hard drive. In fact my laptop is running a 500 gb SSD as a primary drive and this western Digital as the second or data drive so I get both speed and reliability. I would buy another one when needed.
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Western digital is the best hard drive out there.

I used to use maxtor hard drives for a long time and tried hitachi seagate and fugitzu drives for a short time, none would stand up to their warrantys, maxtor was the worst on warrantys had some that were not even six months old and they would not stand behind them,,, soooo i tried western digital and have been using them for over ten years with absoulutly no problems and only had one drive out of over a few hundred that had a problem with and they replaced the drive with no waiting or any excuses. go with western digital and keep your computers and your files safe.Read full review...

great features

it work very good

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Western Digital Black 500GB 7200 HDD

Not bad for the price and the size,it works very well

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Fast with a good size cache.. great value

Great hard drive.. has a good size cache.. very good speed.. great value for a 500gb size. It was the perfect upgrade for an older laptop.

Good 7200rpm hard drive.

Speed up my old hp computer for a good price

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WD Black Scorpio

I had purchased a Western Digital black Scorpio Hard drive from a seller and so far it has done great not one problem as of yet and i don't expect any i am very happy so far.

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