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Posted at 7:11 AM on Monday 11/10/08 by
Ben
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NewEgg.com has the Western Digital Scorpio Black WD3200BEKT 320GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Notebook Hard Drive - OEM for $90 + $0 shipping = $90 shipped. Features an average seek time of 12ms and an average latency of 5.5ms.
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    TheBS - Posted 7:25 am PST 11/10/08 (1285 Posts)  Report Spam

    Definitely a much better deal than the 160GB Scorpio being pushed around for $70 just the other day. These are 2 platter x 160GB/platter designs, much are just under the latest technology from WD (250GB/platter). At 7200rpm, these are the way to go if you can.

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    lament - Posted 8:02 am PST 11/10/08 (47 Posts)  Report Spam

    Perfect for the PS3.

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    wonderboy - Posted 8:43 am PST 11/10/08 (155 Posts)  Report Spam

    I have Seagate momentus 7200.2 now. I feel unpleasant vibration in laptop palm rest.

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    Yaya8032 - Posted 9:05 am PST 11/10/08 (30 Posts)  Report Spam

    These are decent drives but also make sure that your laptop doesn't get too hot.

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    dave_c - Posted 9:15 am PST 11/10/08 (16755 Posts)  Report Spam

    So what are you suggesting #4, that if your laptop gets too hot you should either remove all hard drives, or keep using the heat stressed drive which you imply will fail because of heat? 7K2 RPM drive doesn't use enough addt'l power over slower ones to matter.

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    dtsmatt - Posted 1:01 pm PST 11/10/08 (401 Posts)  Report Spam

    #5, there's these things, people call them "fans" or "laptop coolers".

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    wutang - Posted 1:42 pm PST 11/10/08 (49 Posts)  Report Spam

    i heard these drives don't run that hot, so #5 and #6 behave yourselves

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    phred99 - Posted 1:51 pm PST 11/10/08 (232 Posts)  Report Spam

    The WDC WD3200BJKT is better (more resistant to shock).

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    macguy - Posted 2:14 pm PST 11/10/08 (33 Posts)  Report Spam

    Haven't purchased this particular drive but have purchased a few WD drives over the past year. One thing I really like is the warranty. They'll ship you a new one before you even ship your broken one back.

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    onsalenow - Posted 6:27 pm PST 11/10/08 (559 Posts)  Report Spam

    wow, good price!

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    gjk22 - Posted 9:36 pm PST 11/10/08 (21 Posts)  Report Spam

    great price and a 3 year warranty.

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    freebeer - Posted 11:16 pm PST 11/10/08 (75 Posts)  Report Spam

    usually OEM means shorter warranty... but yup, 3 years.

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    lattehiatus - Posted 12:55 am PST 11/11/08 (500 Posts)  Report Spam

    I replaced the 5400RPM HDD of a MacBook Pro with this drive, and it was obviously the bottleneck in the system. Application load time and boot time drastically decreased, with no appreciable increase in operating temp or battery drain.

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