Western Digital Scorpio Blue 320GB 2.5" SATA Hard Drive Review

Bottom-Line: With the WD Scorpio Blue 320GB 2.5" SATA Internal Hard Drive my laptop now has a new lease on life.          

My first choice for a new 2.5" SATA hard drive was Seagate, but I wanted at least a 320GB HHD, but the company didn't offer up anything at the price point I wanted to pay. So reluctantly I started looking at Western Digital (WD) drives.  (I say reluctantly because my track record with WD drives has not been the best, in fact every one I've ever owned has crashed!  But, WD offered up the drive I wanted for a really affordable price, so I went for it and purchased the Scorpio Blue 320GB 2.5" SATA Internal Hard Drive. 

The Drive

The WD Scorpio Blue 320GB 2.5" SATA Internal Hard Drive is an Ultra-fast 3 Gb/s SATA interface drive designed for notebook computers.  I purchased the drive bare bones from Buy.com for a neat little price of $64.99. 

Installation          

I bought the WD Scorpio Blue 320GB 2.5" SATA Internal Hard Drive intending to place it in the second drive bay of my HP Pavilion dv9000, but it didn't quite work out that way.  The incumbent 120GB Fujitsu drive is 1.5 GB/s while the WD drive is 3.0 GB/s.  

The two are not compatible with the Fujitsu as the primary boot drive, so after a few hours trying to get the WD to play with the Fujitsu I decided to switch the drives around using the WD as the primary boot drive and the Fujitsu as the secondary drive.  That worked, so I installed Windows 7 and now my HP Pavilion dv9000 has two operational drives!  Sweet!         

My Viewpoint

With the WD Scorpio Blue 320GB 2.5" SATA Internal Hard Drive my laptop now has a new lease on life.  The drive is quiet, fast, and I hope reliable.  And now I have plenty of space to run Windows 7 and applications, as well as store music and video files.