WD Scorpio WD2500BEVE 250GB Hard Drive

Good buy

Posted Feb 20, 2008 - After reviewing various websites for a 260GB EIDE 2.5" laptop drive, I found the Scorpio WD2500BEVE was touted as a industry recommended drive for those seeking more storage. My only concern is if the drive really stops functioning after 30 days like some of the customer reviews I've read. However, it was undisputed that of the large capacity drives out there, the Scorpio from Western Digital was a good overall purchase and so far hasn't failed me in its performance. If you're looking for large storage, performance and a good deal, this drive is well worth it.

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Great drive! Challenge to install.

Posted Dec 15, 2007 - I thought installing this drive would go smoothly since Vista does not have the 137 GB limit that plagued the early versions of XP. Wrong! Unfortunately, the restore disk that came with my Fujitsu laptops booted Windows XP and had the 137 GB limit! Attempting to restore the system to these large disks resulted in an error. Also, my IDE clamshells had some sort of limit, as well, causing an error when attempting to clone the main disk to these while expanding. Finally, the solution was to clone the existing drive at the same size and then use Vista to expand the partition to fill the drive. Easy to do, but not obvious at first. A two-hour job ended up taking all day. (Sounds like the typical PC upgrade, doesn't it?)

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I would Buy it Again!!

Posted Apr 2, 2008 - Let's go over the good points. This has got to be one of the largest hard drives you can get for a laptop on the market. With a drive this large it will be a long time before you fill this bad boy up. I have also noticed that this drive does access the data faster than the 4200RPM that this drive replaced. It was noticeable to me. I read some of the other reviews and I remember reading someone mention that the drive was loud. I haven't noticed that, in fact, I think this unit is even more quite than the one I had before. I'm not sure why he said this unit was noisy but I don't agree. The weaknesses of this drive and I really don't think you can blame them on the drive, but I have to agree with what someone else mentioned was that Windows XP would only recognize the drive as being 132GB when in fact it was 250GB. I ended up just installing Vista because I wanted the newer operating system anyway. Vista didn't have any problems seeing it as a 250GB hard drive.

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Desktop storage capacity for a desktop replacement notebook

Posted Mar 28, 2008 - WD's Scorpio WD2500BEVE notebook drive provides a great upgrade path for users who thought they had maxed out their EIDE internal laptop storage users. I installed it in the HP ZD8000 laptop that goes everywhere with me, and so far it does exactly what a commodity hard disk should do: it runs quietly and coolly (disk idle on this drive is 0.3 W vs 0.99 W on my old 100GB drive). If you're replacing the drive in a notebook that is 2 or 3 years old, it's probably ATA/100 and this is the right interface, but save yourself a potential headache making sure before ordering. The best deal I could find was at buy.com, as they were also knocking off $50 for first-time Revolution card users. Hard to beat a disk like this for $67+tax. The three-year warranty is reasonable by industry standards.

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