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Western Digital Scorpio Blue 1TB 2.5-in. HDD, $249

Western Digital on Monday announced two new high-capacity portable hard drives, a 750GB model and a 1TB model that's "the industry's highest-capacity 2.5-inch drive available." How 1TB, you ask? WD manages 333 GB per platter in its WD Scorpio...

Tags: Hard Drive, Western Digital Corp., WD, WD Scorpio Blue SATA, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-07-27

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Runcore Pro IV SSD benchmarks

As a follow-up to yesterday's post I've completed some quick real-world benchmarks of the Pro IV 2.5-inch SATA SSD in my MacBook Pro 2.4GHz with 2GB RAM running Mac OS 10.5.6 with all updates applied. The SSD was set up from the HDD using Apple's Migration Assistant. ...

Tags: Hard Drive, Apple Macintosh, Serial ATA, Storage, Hardware, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-05-04

The mother of all notebook hard drives: Scorpio Blue

I'm totally psyched that someone has finally released a 500GB hard drive that fits in my MacBook Pro. That someone is Western Digital. WD just announced its WD5000BEVT mobile hard drive, a.k.a. the Scorpio Blue with a huge 500GB capacity. The 500GB barrier was broken earlier this...

Tags: Hard Drive, Apple MacBook, Apple MacBook Pro, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2008-09-25

MacBook Air Diary-Day 12: Tackling the storage issue

Being somewhat of a data packrat, the MacBook Air's tiny 80GB hard drive was probably its biggest problem for me. I got accustomed to having a fairly heavy Aperture (20GB) and iTunes library (30GB) at my fingertips on my MacBook Pro's spacious 320GB HDD. The teensy MBA hard drive makes...

Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Apple MacBook, MBA, Hard Drive, Notebooks, Storage, Passport, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets

Blog posts 2008-02-11