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WD starts shipping new 1TB 9.5mm hard drive: WD10JPVT

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Philflow

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Western Digital today announced that the company is now shipping its 1TB capacity SATA III Scorpio Blue internal hard drives with a slimmer form factor. The new form is 9.5 mm, 500GB per platter and it fits 2.5-inch hard drives, which is the size designed for many mainstream notebooks.
According to WD, Scorpio Blue hard drives run both coolly and quietly and are built with data protection features. Model WD10JPVT has a 5400rpm rotational speed, 8MB buffer size, a 5.50 ms nominal latency and a 3Gbps maximum transfer speed.
WD Scorpio Blue Features:
Advanced power management: helps lower power consumption
WD WhisperDrive technology: maintains a cooler and quieter hard drive
WD SecurePark: physical protection for the recording head
Shock protection
Advanced format (AF) technology
The WD Scorpio Blue 1TB internal hard drives are available now through Western Digital and other select resellers for $139 USD. They come with a 3-year limited warranty.
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Western Digital 1TB Scorpio Blue Hard Drive Resized
 
WD Black can be noisy at times (Newegg reviews) and consumes 1.2 watt while idle (Techreport). That's pretty steep.
 
Philflow said:
WD Black can be noisy at times (Newegg reviews) and consumes 1.2 watt while idle (Techreport). That's pretty steep.
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The noise is the factor thats spooking me, I run on power all the time so that's not really an issue. Being in the optibay it needs to be 9.5mm and the WD Black at least fits but speed isn't important as my 240G Vertex 3 will be the primary when I get it in a few days, this'll just be media.
 
I have the black scorpio 750GB and believe me, the noise and vibration it makes is bearable but the drain in power when it is idling....that really kills it for me. My daily usage with it from 100% battery goes to 0% in approximately 4 hours. That is just leaving email and Safari on with tethering enabled via WiFi. I am gonna switch it back to the 1TB Scorpio Blue when i can get my hands on it.
 
revenent said:
I have the black scorpio 750GB and believe me, the noise and vibration it makes is bearable but the drain in power when it is idling....that really kills it for me. My daily usage with it from 100% battery goes to 0% in approximately 4 hours. That is just leaving email and Safari on with tethering enabled via WiFi. I am gonna switch it back to the 1TB Scorpio Blue when i can get my hands on it.
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How much faster is the 7200RPM than the 5400?
 
Battery isn't the biggest deal breaker for me since my laptop will be with the power adapter most of the time except when I'm in class. It's the supposed vibration and noise I am worried about
 
The vibration it produces is noticeable. When you are pounding on your laptop and your palms resting on the palm rest most of the time you can actually feel it. Plus the left hand side feels warmer compared to the right...
 
alphaod said:
That's too bad; just changed my older 12.5mm WD 1TB to a 9mm Samsung 1TB.
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I bought my 12.5mm Western Digital 1TB just under a month ago from a local shop. I haven't taken it out of the wrapping yet, I'm hoping they can give me a store credit and buy the 9.5" instead. Looking at newegg's feedback results, the 12.5mm got quite a bit of 1 star ratings and a lot of failures. This makes me uneasy opening and using the drive to store 1TB of data. I use backups, but 1TB lost at any point will suck.
 
rockyroad55 said:
I don't see these items on Amazon yet, any word on when Amazon usually gets it? I have gift cards with them, that's why.
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Amazon has had these drives in their database for several days. I placed my order yesterday. Today, they received stock but it looks like they sold out quickly. My unit has yet to ship, crossing fingers.

David
 
dwhittington said:
Amazon has had these drives in their database for several days. I placed my order yesterday. Today, they received stock but it looks like they sold out quickly. My unit has yet to ship, crossing fingers.

David
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Got a link? All I see is there 5200RPM ones and those were released last year according to Amazon info.
 
dsio said:
Pretty sure that's not the drive you have, yours is likely the 12.5mm.
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O Yea of little faith, it surely is. It is the new 9.5 mm version.
 

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rgarjr said:
Anyone know where to get the Samsung 1TB 9.5mm? Newegg does not have it anymore.
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I too am curious of this. I also want to see the WD Blue 1Tb 7200RPM compared to the WD Black or Blue 750Gb 7200RPM. I have the 750Gb 7200RPM that ships with all new MBP's, but that extra 250Gb would be great as long as there is little to no performance decrease.
 
xlii said:
O Yea of little faith, it surely is. It is the new 9.5 mm version.
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Kind of strange if it came from Newegg, I was on the phone to them just two days ago and they said they haven't seen any WD 1TB 9.5mm drives yet and don't expect to for a couple of weeks.
 
dsio said:
Kind of strange if it came from Newegg, I was on the phone to them just two days ago and they said they haven't seen any WD 1TB 9.5mm drives yet and don't expect to for a couple of weeks.
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I found my emailed invoice from new egg and it had their internal number as a link on it. I bought this on the 24th of July. Click on this link:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...&cm_mmc=TEMC-RMA-Approvel-_-Content-_-text-_-

If you look at the ratings comments you can see that it was being sold.
 
Anyone questioning reliability of this drive? I've heard numerous complaints about WD drives failing prematurely. Why should this be any different?

The benchmark scores make me want to definitely buy it, but if it is going to fail right away, I'll wait.
 
Nopstnz8 said:
Anyone questioning reliability of this drive? I've heard numerous complaints about WD drives failing prematurely. Why should this be any different?

The benchmark scores make me want to definitely buy it, but if it is going to fail right away, I'll wait.
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Seagate Momentus ones can fail prematurely. All of them can. That's a known issue with different hard drives, not just WD. Our household uses mainly WD and no failures yet for many years.

I would buy it from Amazon. Get an external if you do not already have one for backups. If it does fail, send it back to Amazon. :)

http://www.amazon.com/Western-Digit...JJWQ/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1312395981&sr=8-3
 
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