Western Digital ships 500GB 2.5-inch hard drives
WD Scorpio Blue coming to a notebook near you
15 September 2008 8:59 GMT / By Amy-Mae Elliott
Western Digital has announced that it has started shipments of its WD Scorpio Blue 2.5-inch notebook hard drives with capacities up to 500GB.
With "industry-leading" 250 GB-per-platter technology, the new WD Scorpio Blue 500GB and 400GB SATA hard drives are designed for notebook computers and portable storage devices.
The WD Scorpio Blue offers a 3Gbps transfer rate and gets proprietary tech from WD that claims to make the drive extraordinarily quiet, while running at cool operating temperatures.
The WD Scorpio Blue 500GB is the highest capacity 2.5-inch hard drive shipping-to-date, retailing at $219.99.
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