WD1600BEKT WD Scorpio, Excellent Notebook Upgrade
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Excellent Notebook Upgrade
I’ve had my Toshiba Satellite for two years. When the stock internal 80gb drive started having errors, I was in search for a new drive.
This drive replaced the Fujitsu made Toshiba 7200RPM 80GB drive. The biggest comparisons are the 4mb cache on the stock and the 16mb on the 160GB. Western Digital makes some high quality drives, and in a 24 hour stress test, this drive didn’t falter once. I was able to install Ubuntu 9.04 in about 15 minutes next to the 25-30 it took the old drive. Excellent price for a double in disk space and probably nearly a doubling in read/write speeds.
One last note, my laptop hase a 3-cell Li-Ion battery. With the original hard drive the batter would last about an hour in normal usage. I’m already getting over an hour and a half. I’m guessing the stock hard drive ate a LOT more power.
One con, but it’s normal.. This drive is just a little louder (if you put your ear to the drive bay) then the original. However, if it’s on your table or lap, you’ll never hear it. 
Update (5/17/2012): This item is currently on sale here for the lowest price I’ve seen. I also found some auctions for this item here.
The featured review for this product, WD Scorpio Black WD1600BEKT - Hard drive - 160 GB - internal - 2.5″ - SATA-300 - 7200 rpm - buffer: 16 MB pack of 50 Electronics, was written by Steve E. Patton.
The average rating for this item is out of 5 stars, according to 3 reviews.
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Tags: 7200 rpm, hard drive, hard drives, internal hard drive 160gb, laptop, sata, western digital
Posted on: April 2, 2010
Filed under: Reviews
Reviews (3)
Brian Oliver Bondurant
February 22nd, 2010 at 1:08 pm
Great drive at a great price
This drive was easy to install and format and has worked well since I got it about two months ago. Shipping via Amazon was dreadfully slow…took over 3 weeks to get to me. However it did snow a lot during February so I guess it can’t be all their fault.
Not quite as fast as an improvement as I was expecting but still very solid drive. Had 148gb of usable space after formatting which seems pretty reasonable.
If you are looking to upgrade from 5400rpm or just increase space this is an excellent hd for the price.
Steve E. Patton
March 11th, 2010 at 10:31 pm
Excellent Notebook Upgrade
Rated 5 stars.
Wayne Miller
March 20th, 2010 at 4:49 pm
Disappointed!!
I bought this drive for a Colorspace O casing (that’s a whole ‘nother set of disappointments) and have not been able to get it to work. I have formatted and reformated and whenever I try to use it in the Hyperdrive gives me is “HDD Access Error”. I’ve had a technician online for the last hour and we have not been able to get the drive to work.
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