Review on 💾 Western Digital WD6400BEVT 640GB Scorpio Blue - 2.5" SATA2 5400rpm Notebook Hard Drive by Ricky Mayo

Let's start by saying that I am an IT professional and have a lot of experience with IT equipment (over 30 years). Since 1995 I have also been doing PC repairs part-time. I know what I am doing. I've been a fan of Western Digital (WD) drives for a number of years. I only use WD products when I need to replace the HDD (hard drive). I recently bought a Dell Vostro laptop with a 320GB hard drive. I use it to record videos and dub DVDs, to host an I-Tunes server and as a repository for our digital photo collection. Almost immediately ran out of memory (Win7-pro). So I replaced it with a WD 640GB and was very happy with its performance and storage capacity. The drive is quiet and loading and retrieving data is significantly faster than the original model (Hitachi Travelstar 320GB). I've noticed in previous product reviews that others have had issues with their devices. My experience is consistently positive. My other laptop uses a Western Digital 500GB unit and my experience with it has also been very positive. I've had bad experiences with crashes and bad sector growth with Samsung and Fujitsu laptop drives.