Western Digital WD2500BEVS 250GB SATA Laptop drive Reviews

My wife and I are avid digital photographers and take pictures at a phenomenal rate, easily shooting a couple hundred pictures in an afternoon. My wife processes all her pictures in a laptop computer and constantly complained that there wasn't enough storage in her computer to do the complex image processing she likes to do. Small wonder that the 80 GB hard drive in her computer was always banging against its upper limit.

We started looking around and found the Western Digital Scorpio WD2500 250 GB hard drive at a local store (Micro Center) for $173.

What it is

At 250 GB of storage, the Western...

Traditionally, desktop drives (3.5-inch) have always been the ones to have larger capacities over notebook drives (2.5-inch) due to the physical size. That changed just a few months ago with the introduction of the Western Digital WD2500BEVS 250GB SATA Laptop drive .

Running at 5400RPM, it isn't the fastest (compared to a 7200RPM), but certainly the largest we've seen to date. The 250GB Scorpio is a SATA 1.5Gbps interface drive and has an 8MB cache. Western Digital offers a 3-year warranty on this drive (and on all Scorpio drives).