Western Digital Scorpio™ WD800BEVS 80 GB SATA Hard Drive

I bought this item in order to have a portable hard drive. so far it has worked great, and it even had more memory than my computers hard drive. No problems have happen so i believe it will be durable. It's small size is grate to just carry on a pocket, although it be best not to unless it would be in a case.

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In general these are good drives. What you should know is that they come in different flavors. Just like a Chevy Camero could have a six cylinder or 2 different sizes of a V8, so the same is true with these Scorpio Drives. It does not matter for general purpose use which you buy but if you are into better performance you should check out the specifications on WD's website. This model is rated at 150 mbs and has an 8 meg buffer. There are also drives with just a 2 meg buffer. The Scorpio BLUE is the faster SATA (II) drive at 300 mbs. So if your working on large files and moving a lot of data, this is the way to go. For the average user, it would be a waste to go with the faster transfer speed.
Web browsing, email and spreadsheets have no need for performance but real-time gaming is another story.

I have 2 drives, One [the slow one] is running Vista Ultimate on a Dell Latitude with 4 Gigs of ram. The other drive has XP Pro. Lots of ram makes the difference. 2 Gigs is the minimum to make things work well. With only 1 gig, there is a lot of swap file activity and that is ok for spreadsheets and word processing but heavy Web applications get jittery. Small drives are fine unless you want to load up lots of videos. For video a high speed drive is recommended.