Own a Alu MBP 17"? Want Bigger HD?

[UltraNEO*]

Still running your machine on a tiny 160Gb~500Gb drive?
Well here's some good news...

In case you didn't know, WD has recently announced it has started shipping it's new Scorpio Blue 1TB 2.5" HD's (model WD10TEVT), suitable for your MBP 17" Aluminium system only, doesn't fit the 15" or the 13"

Western Digital informed us this morning that it had begun shipping 2.5" mobile hard drives with capacities of 1TB and 750GB, which is an industry first. The Scorpio Blue 1TB hard drive sports an impressive three 333GB platters spinning at 5,200 RPM. Each drive comes with 8MB of cache and a 3Gb/s Serial ATA interface. WD claims acoustic levels of 24-26 dB(A) depending on idle and load conditions. Power consumption numbers are at SSD levels with quoted figures of 0.10W at idle and 2.5W during normal read/write operation.

incase there are any unibody reader are here.. There's a very good reason as to why it doesn't work on the newer Unibodiy machines...

The one drawback for either drive is that both utilize the 12.5mm form factor instead of the de facto standard 9.5mm. This means the drives are ideally suited for external storage solutions, larger DTR notebook designs, or small form factor desktop systems. However, your mileage will vary depending on the design of your notebook.

Get your's now!! Only $243.05
Still cheaper than a SSD at 1TB!

 

[thegoldenmackid]

That 5400 RPM thing is still aggravating.

 

[UltraNEO*]

That 5400 RPM thing is still aggravating.

Yeah.. I wonder will they release a black version soon. They've got the platters sorted.. guess it's just firmware programming now aye?

 

[Thunder82]

That website you linked is for a 3.5" drive, not a 2.5" notebook drive. You can expect this drive to run you about $250 once it's actually on the market. The 750GB version just made it on Newegg's site yesterday. ($180)

 

[MacModMachine]

old news....


been posted several times.

please read before posting.

dont submit fake links....ones to the wrong drive through clickserve...its against form rules.

 

[UltraNEO*]

That website you linked is for a 3.5" drive, not a 2.5" notebook drive. You can expect this drive to run you about $250 once it's actually on the market. The 750GB version just made it on Newegg's site yesterday. ($180)

Sorry, I blame anandtech for the bad link...

Non of those sites are any good for me, I'm in Japan... Leader in Technology but when it comes to large HD's we're the last to get them!

 

[UltraNEO*]

old news....


been posted several times.

please read before posting.

dont submit fake links....ones to the wrong drive through clickserve...its against form rules.

Actually I searched "WD10TEVT" on this site.. and it's not mentioned anywhere... Now you'd think it'll be there!

 

[MacModMachine]

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/754161/
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/759717/

i can dig up more if you want....