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I notice several have recommended the Western Digital Scorpio Blue hard drive for macbooks, but why not the Scorpio Black which has a 5 year warranty instead of 3 years. I see Newegg has the Scorpio Black 320gb for $74.99. It runs at 7200rpm vs 5400 for the blue.... any problem with that?
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i might be mistaken but i believe the black is a 3.5" sata drive for externals and desktops while the blue is a 2.5" drive for laptops.
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nope. the black is 2.5 inch as well.
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1. I'm not sure the Black is available in 500GB.
2. Price.
3. Tests have shown the Blue beating other brand 7200RPM HDs.
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now THAT is funky. I swear i JUST looked up the scorpio black 500 on newegg and it showed up at the top. I searched again and it was a 250. I must be going blind!
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I'm thinking seriously about changing out the 120G in my MacBook.
When y'all decide which is best let me know ;-)