Review on WESTERN DIGITAL WD3200BPVT Scorpio Blue 320GB 5400 RPM 8MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 2.5 Internal Notebook Hard Drive - Reliable Storage for Laptops by Andrey Zagorov ᠌

I'm glad I was able to save important information, it could have been worse. Do not take this hard drive. Save your nerves and money. Some pros: Already took a laptop with such a hard drive, for a small price. The low price can be considered an advantage. With its cons: For a year of operation, I did not notice (it was just enough for the warranty to end on the laptop). A year later, the laptop began to blunt cruelly (all sorts of optimization programs, defragmentation, driver ates, etc. did not help), I thought it was time to reinstall Windows. I didn’t have time, at the most necessary moment, the system crashed, the loss of information (the laptop was taken for work). Then "dancing with a tambourine" near the laptop, somehow restored the information, copied it to the home PC. I launched a program to scan the quality of the screw and was stunned. There are more than 4 thousand "broken" sectors, there are almost no reserve sectors left, more than 6 thousand sectors will soon need to be rewritten to the reserve, which is no longer there, etc. In short, the hard drive has little left until it is completely unusable.