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Western Digital Western Digital Scorpio Blue 500GB 25 Internal Hard drive SATA 3Gbs SATA 2 8MB Cache WD5000BPVT Components Internal Hard Drives
| 6 of 6 people found the following review helpful By Ian McKee (London) - See all my reviews This review is from: Western Digital Scorpio Blue 500GB 5400 RPM SATA Mobile Internal Hard Drive OEM (8 MB,2.5 inch,Sony Playstation PS3 Compatible) (Personal Computers) I've been upgrading my MacBook Pro recently as it's getting on a bit (bought in Nov 2009). Had been a bit nervous about fiddling around with the hardware in it but upgraded the RAM recently and that was easy, so decided to have a go a the hard drive too. Again, really easy. This hard drive works absolutely perfectly, my MBP was already faster from the RAM upgrade but unexpectedly the hard drive upgrade made it run faster still. Applications like iPhoto now just pop up almost instantly and retrieve photos really quickly.Now have loads of space and a faster laptop! Seems to slightly drain on the battery more than before as another poster mentioned, but similarly I've found that's true for doing stuff like sorting photos and web browsing but actually watching video seems to be the same if not slower. So a small trade up but totally one worth taking in my opinion. 3 of 3 people found the following review helpful This review is from: Western Digital Scorpio Blue 500GB 5400 RPM SATA Mobile Internal Hard Drive OEM (8 MB,2.5 inch,Sony Playstation PS3 Compatible) (Personal Computers) I brought this as a replacement HDD for my PS3. Delivery was prompt and it has worked perfectly since installing. I can now install all my GT5 tracks and lots of music and videos. Its brilliant. Doesn't appear noisy (or at least no noiser than the old one) Very happy. 10 of 12 people found the following review helpful This review is from: Western Digital Scorpio Blue 500GB 5400 RPM SATA Mobile Internal Hard Drive OEM (8 MB,2.5 inch,Sony Playstation PS3 Compatible) (Personal Computers) Ok got this drive last year and it failed last month, I understand that drives failed so wouldn't down rate it for that but I would for Western Digitals RMA service which was comically bad.WD does have a site where you put in your drive number and they will issue you with RMA number. Not a bad idea but here is my first small gripe, you have to pay to return the drive yourself, so basically I have to pay because of their shoddy goods. Not a great start. Ok sent the drive by recorded delivery on the 20th September and it was signed for on the 21st September. One week later and there is nothing on their status page to suggest they have it (you have to wait 7 working days for them to put it in their system - REALLY ? Still waiting and emailing them to ask where it was and finally on the 7th Oct it "arrives" in their inventory. Ok now they find it is faulty - I knew that otherwise I would not have sent it back. Now they... Read more |