WD Scorpio Black 750GB 7200RPM 2.5" notebook drive $69.99

Quote from spydersdeals69 : Not everyone wants an external or portable drive. Some need an internal laptop drive. Two totally seperate things altogether.

And it's quite clear you still don't understand that inside every external drive is an internal drive.

Quote from F23Coupe : Which is better for a laptop: this or the Seagate XT 500GB hybrid SSD/HDD?

I own this Hard Drive and I am very happy with the performance. Altough I don't have any experience w/ the XT Hard Drive, looking at the comparisons and feedback, I've got the impression that the performance of both drives is about the same. For $10 less you get $250GB and 2 more years of warranty.

Great drive I use to run one in my XPS laptop (came stock with it 500gb version). If hadn't been for ssd prices, I would have kept running it for years to come. Already ran it for 2+ years without any issues.

The best drive I've used in a laptop, definitely recommended. Hopefully there will be a similar deal on the Momentus XT 750

Amazon has price matched this: http://www.amazon.com/Western-Dig...rpio+black

In for 1 on a great drive!

Quote from Prideless : can you please explain? i thought the 2.5 external hard drives had a larger form factor in which you could put it into a laptop 15mm opposed to 12.5 or 9mm? any clarification would be greatly appreciated.

Generally, that would only be the really big drives 1TB+
Some machines will require 7mm drives, possibly ultrabooks.

You get one of these drives instead of an external because this is the highest performing short of an SSD or HDD/SSD hybrid (other issues for those) with the best warranty which is still valid when you use it internally (unlike the external). This is a pretty sweet price.

will there be a better deal than this on Black Friday or Cyber Mnday?

I am getting one to upgrade the ps3


Thanks! and repped

crap! already bought a 500 for same price from amazon.

Quote from krusty : will there be a better deal than this on Black Friday or Cyber Mnday?

I would say possible but pretty unlikely? This is flat out the cheapest it has ever been on Amazon.

And yeah, this is pretty much the gold standard of SATA II laptop hard drives. 7200 RPM makes a huge, huge difference vs 5400, and WD's quality (specially on the Black drives) is unmatched.

someone could buy a new porche, or a used civic and spend thousands suping it up...both will serve their purpose, but the porsche will be faster and the civic will be cheaper but more DIY

i don't know why people are arguing about this so much...honestly i think seagate hasn't gained it's rep back from the catastrophe that was their HDDs a few years ago, and even if you like Seagate the drive will be some basic 5XXX rpm drive while WD Black is about the best mechanical drive there is

Quote from F23Coupe : Which is better for a laptop: this or the Seagate XT 500GB hybrid SSD/HDD?

That depends on how much space you need/want. The XT 500 is still on sale for $50, cheaper might be better.

I have the XT 500 in a MBP and love it, but if you need the extra space a 750 GB 7200rpm for $70 sounds like a good deal to me. The little 4GB SSD that I have is not bad but won't make your machine fly. The best in terms of speed might be to consider a 256GB SSD deal over the upcoming weekend, if you can drill down your space requirements...

I think 1TB 7200 Seagate 3.5" was $49 bucks the other day as well. Crazy how prices have come down.

Quote from sechd : Is that the Seagate Expansion external drive? I believe it has a 5400 RPM drive and all the Target stores in my area are OOS. I think it is a great deal for an external storage and I would get it if I can find one at that price.

I drove to the Dublin store trying to look for some when the system said they had some in stock. Worker there said they were sold out and inventory only updates every 24 hours which I think is BS.

Called the San Ramon store and had worker physically check. She had six. 10 mins later as I got to the specific aisle they had TWO. I grabbed both of them and checked out.

In 4 2. These will be the backup drives of my new "fusion" system.