Review on High-performance Western Digital 160 GB Scorpio PATA Mobile Internal Hard Drive for Superior Data Storage: WD1600VERTL (Blue) by Yuri Rochelin

I did not purchase this drive to replace the drive installed in my computer. I bought it to replace my backup drive. Since the laptop can't hold two drives, I can't use RAID for redundancy. However, Apricorn has a program that comes with their hard drive upgrade kit called "EZGig II” that bitwise drive cloning, so you can upgrade to a larger drive without data loss. I use this software to backup my drive. Recently my hard drive broke so I installed a spare drive from an external drive that I cloned every Friday. It booted into the computer and within 5 minutes I was ready to go. This new drive now becomes a spare drive in the external enclosure. He works like a champ.