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post #1 of 31
9/4/07 at 1:40am
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Western Digital Scorpio WD2500BEVE 250GB 5400 RPM 8MB Cache ATA-6 Notebook Hard Drive - OEM

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822136159

There are no reviews on newegg and
it does not exist on the Western Digital website.

Is this thing for real?


An SATA150 version has been out for a while with excelent reviews.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822136123
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post #2 of 31
9/4/07 at 12:10pm
YMMV more storage for my 700m
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post #3 of 31
9/4/07 at 12:56pm
I hope it is real

one link
http://cgi.ebay.es/NEW-Western-Digit...QQcmdZViewItem
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post #4 of 31
9/4/07 at 1:23pm
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Originally Posted by atwood7fan View Post
YMMV more storage for my 700m

Exactly.

Well, i went ahead and ordered it.
Worst thing that happends is I have to return it.
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post #5 of 31
9/7/07 at 11:40am
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Originally Posted by DaddyOf2Girls View Post
Western Digital Scorpio WD2500BEVE 250GB 5400 RPM 8MB Cache ATA-6 Notebook Hard Drive - OEM

Is this thing for real?
Update:

They are real. They are spectacular!


I ordered one Tuesday, it arrived last night, its installed, and I am using it on my XPS2 right now.
I thought my 80Gb Toshiba drive was quite, but this thing is even quieter.

Took about 10 minutes to setup the drive transfer.
9 hours 7 minutes to transfer my 49Gb of data. (I deleted alot of stuff before transfering)
and about 30 minutes of work to swap the drives.
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post #6 of 31
9/7/07 at 1:03pm
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Originally Posted by DaddyOf2Girls View Post
...and about 30 minutes of work to swap the drives.
Getting slow in your old age eh? J/K Nice upgrade! I really enjoy the extra space I have on mine now too. Though the more space I have, the more stuff I seem to find to fill it with
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post #7 of 31
9/7/07 at 1:09pm
I am thinking on buying one to make a dual boot xp-vista on my 9300.
which one will performe better the 100 gb seagate momentus 7200 rpm or this one?
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post #8 of 31
9/7/07 at 1:22pm
The data density of the platters in the 250GB drive more than makes up for its lack of rotational speed. You would be hard pressed to determine a noticeable difference between this one and a smaller 7200RPM drive. It's definately faster than the 80GB 7200RPM drive in my old 9300.
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post #9 of 31
9/7/07 at 3:19pm
Now this is what I am talking about. I think I might order this.
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post #10 of 31
9/7/07 at 3:26pm
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Since my wife is pregnant with twins,
I don't have alot of time to mess my own toys.
But if someone had a link to some HD performance tools, i would be more than happy to run them and report the findings.
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post #11 of 31
9/7/07 at 3:30pm
http://www.simplisoftware.com/Public...request=HdTach

hdtach
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post #12 of 31
9/7/07 at 5:33pm
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Originally Posted by Cas View Post

Quick bench (8mb zones)


Long bench (32Mb zones)


XPS2 Specs: (copied from sig)
XPS Gen 2|2GHz|17in WUXGA(LG)|2GB ram|802.11abg|250GB 5400 Upgrade|Go7800 GTX upgrade|8x(DVDrw)
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post #13 of 31
9/7/07 at 5:37pm
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Originally Posted by Cas View Post
I am thinking on buying one to make a dual boot xp-vista on my 9300.
which one will performe better the 100 gb seagate momentus 7200 rpm or this one?

http://www.ncix.com/products/index.p...acture=Seagate


I just got this momentus in canada, and ran it through hard drive tune 2.54. Here are the results:

Min: 17.7MB/sec
Max: 46.8
Avg: 34.9
Access Time: 15.6ms
Burst Rate: 72.1

Maybe dof2g or kazie can run it on the 250gb western for you?

Its noticably faster than the older 80gb 5400rpm momentus it replaced. I looked for the western in canada, couldnt find it.

Cheers
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post #14 of 31
9/7/07 at 5:38pm
fookin ell that was spooky didnt see your post
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post #15 of 31
9/7/07 at 5:40pm
arggh tried hd tach but wont work in vista, sorry
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post #16 of 31
9/7/07 at 5:41pm
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Average Read speed is 49.7Mb/s

Thats better than most other ATA drives in HD Tach library and they are almost all 7200 RPM drives.
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post #17 of 31
9/7/07 at 6:06pm
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Originally Posted by ZX81 View Post
http://www.ncix.com/products/index.p...acture=Seagate


I just got this momentus in canada, and ran it through hard drive tune 2.54. Here are the results:

Min: 17.7MB/sec
Max: 46.8
Avg: 34.9
Access Time: 15.6ms
Burst Rate: 72.1
To compare apples to apples I ran the test again Using HD Tune 2.54
Western Digital WD2055BEVE 250Gb 5400 RPM
Min: 25.6 Mb/sec
Max: 61.0 Mb/sec
Ave: 47.1 Mb/sec
Access Tike: 17.3 ms
Burst Rate: 57.8 Mb/sec - alot lower than HD Tech burst rate of 91.9 Mb/sec hmmm
CPU Usage: 3.5%

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post #18 of 31
9/7/07 at 6:11pm
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Originally Posted by Krayziepop View Post
Getting slow in your old age eh?

Oh i had helprs.
Daughter #1 (5 years old) knows that 250GB is 170GB larger than 80Gb.
And now Daugher #2 (2.7 years old) will try to put the old hard drive back in if I leave a screw driver lying on the coffee table.
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post #19 of 31
9/7/07 at 7:04pm
Well, it certainly appears that HDTach is not a Vista friendly app



You can run it under Vista, but you have to use compatibility mode. It's pretty obvious based on the above chart that it doesn't work properly though.
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post #20 of 31
9/7/07 at 10:49pm

Just Ordered

Had to get one - I currently have a 7200 RPM 60 GB (that came from Dell), but from what I'm hearing this drive is quite a bit faster (is that accurate)?

Does the platter arrangement make the speed comparable to the 7200 RPM notebook harddrives?

Thanks!
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