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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 Goro Honda ᠌

Revainrating 1 out of 5

Terrible quality, a waste of money.

MDL: WD3200BPVT-22JJ5T0 Looked at the SMART settings. Item Load / Unload cycle count (The number of cycles of moving the block of magnetic heads to the parking zone / to the working position.) 115 708 for 1.5 years. Many or few I don't know. If the manufacturer promises that the HDD will withstand 300,000 - 600,000, then it seems to be normal, but it was even far from 300,000. Power On time count( the amount of time spent in the on state) (1162 hours perhaps?). For comparison, during the operation of my stationary HDD WD10EZEX Power On time count 504, Load / Unload cycle count 321 (The number of parking lots is much less).

Pros
  • Worked quietly, failures and overheating were not noticed during operation
Cons
  • Worked for 1.5 years on an Acer Aspire One 722 c68bb netbook. During operation, clicks suddenly appeared. After rebooting the netbook, Windows no longer booted! But the netbook was not used as a stationary PC and did not work daily.