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    WD Scorpio Blue Drive Is First One Terabyte Mobile Drive Ever—Yes, 1TB

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    Image of MePerson MePerson
    07/27/09

    In reply to WD Scorpio Blue Drive Is First One Terabyte Mobile Drive Ever—Yes, 1TB
    Coming soon: the new iPod Classic 1TB! Up to 175 continuous days of your favorite music!
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    Image of VenomIreland VenomIreland
    07/27/09

    In reply to WD Scorpio Blue Drive Is First One Terabyte Mobile Drive Ever—Yes, 1TB
    12.5mm is 2.5" right?
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    Image of MacBandit MacBandit
    07/27/09

    @VenomIreland:

    Wrong. 25.4mm in an inch. They are referring to the thickness of the HDD. Most 2.5" drives are 9.5mm thick and fit in any computer that uses 2.5" drives. These drives are 12.5mm thick and only fit in some laptops (mostly the thicker/bigger laptops that have the room to fit the larger size).
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    Image of VenomIreland VenomIreland
    07/27/09

    @MacBandit: Ah thanks. Very Strange size for a HD.
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    Image of FuturePastNow FuturePastNow
    07/27/09

    @VenomIreland: 12.5mm is the thickness. Most mobile drives are 9.5mm thick.

    This won't fit in very many notebooks.
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    07/27/09

    In reply to WD Scorpio Blue Drive Is First One Terabyte Mobile Drive Ever—Yes, 1TB
    Wow.... This might be reason enough to start carrying around a small notebook and ditching my photobank...

    DECISIONS....
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    Image of ValfridBuccaneer ValfridBuccaneer
    07/27/09

    In reply to WD Scorpio Blue Drive Is First One Terabyte Mobile Drive Ever—Yes, 1TB
    @dark42 He's referring to height. Yes, it's a standard 2.5" HDD (whereas the MBA uses a 1.8") however there is 12mm height, and 9.5mm height (same situation with ODDs: Most MacBook/Pros takes 9.5mm whereas i/PowerBooks take 12mm). Only the 17" non-unibody MacBook Pros will accept 12mm ODDs, and quite possibly this 12mm HDD.
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    07/27/09

    In reply to WD Scorpio Blue Drive Is First One Terabyte Mobile Drive Ever—Yes, 1TB
    Jesus,

    You don't have 1TB of desktop data. You have 300GB of music and 700GB of pr0n.
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    Image of Nikkoli Nikkoli
    07/27/09

    In reply to WD Scorpio Blue Drive Is First One Terabyte Mobile Drive Ever—Yes, 1TB
    I find it a bit interesting that they leave out the RPM of the hard drives....
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_OverSleptThisMorn GitEmSteveDave_OverSleptThisMorn
    07/27/09

    @Nikkoli: From what I can gather/guess, it's 5400, like all their others, and also may be variable, to keep it "green".
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    Image of Pablomancan Pablomancan
    07/27/09

    @Nikkoli: You do realize that the density of the drive, being 5400 respectively, makes it as fast, if not faster than a similar hard drive running at 7200 RPM with about 600~750GB.

    Just sayin'
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    Image of TheSonOfKrypton TheSonOfKrypton
    07/27/09

    In reply to WD Scorpio Blue Drive Is First One Terabyte Mobile Drive Ever—Yes, 1TB
    Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh SNAP! Unfortunately, I don't think this can be used in Macbook Pro's.....I'm strictly going off of memory here (so I may be wrong) but don't Macbook Pro's require the 9.5 mm form factor as they are thinner than many other notebooks?
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    Edited by TheSonOfKrypton at 07/27/09 8:30 AM TheSonOfKrypton was starred TheSonOfKrypton was unstarred
    Image of dark42 dark42
    07/27/09

    @TheSonOfKrypton: Nope, I have the newest-generation 13" MBP, I have taken it apart and I will tell you that it uses a standard 2.5 inch laptop HDD.
    You might be thinking of the Macbook Air. But who has one of those anyway? :D
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    Image of Andrew Pilipczuk Andrew Pilipczuk
    07/27/09

    @TheSonOfKrypton: The Unibody MacBook Pro's can fit a 12.5mm drive, I have one in mine.
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    Image of Modano Modano
    07/27/09

    @Andrew Pilipczuk: So if I get one of the 1TB ones, I can install OS X on it, pull it out of the case and install it in my unibody MBP, no problem?
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    Image of TheSonOfKrypton TheSonOfKrypton
    07/27/09

    @Andrew Pilipczuk: Seriously? How come when i google it, I get a whole bunch of links about how MBP's only fit the 9" form factor HDD's....
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    Image of orthorim orthorim
    07/27/09

    @Andrew Pilipczuk: Really? Are you 100% sure?What exact model hard drive do you have? Before this, there were hardly any worth-while 12.5mm drives available, e.g. the biggest and best was the 500GB 7200 RPM drive from Seagate... at 9.5mm...
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    Image of Andrew Pilipczuk Andrew Pilipczuk
    07/27/09

    @TheSonOfKrypton: I dunno, but I bought an external 2.5" 500GB drive that had a 12.5mm drive, and it fit in my Unibody with no problems what so ever. I'll get some pictures later.
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    Image of Tezlan Tezlan
    07/27/09

    @TheSonOfKrypton: I have a MBP and bought a 320gb 2.5 Scorpio drive and had an apple authorized installer install it in my computer then make a mirror of the old hd onto the new hd and everything was seemingly as I had left it, but just with double the drive space. I'm thinking about getting this nice piece of hardware.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_OverSleptThisMorn GitEmSteveDave_OverSleptThisMorn
    07/27/09

    In reply to WD Scorpio Blue Drive Is First One Terabyte Mobile Drive Ever—Yes, 1TB
    Wait Jesus. Are you telling us your desktop has LESS than 1TB of info on/in it? I feel so disillusioned.
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    Image of strider_mt2k strider_mt2k
    07/27/09

    In reply to WD Scorpio Blue Drive Is First One Terabyte Mobile Drive Ever—Yes, 1TB
    Hey that IS pretty nice.
    Someday perhaps I'll run a laptop with SATA internal, but I still wouldn't mind this in a compact external SATA enclosure in the meantime.

    I recently started buying WD drives after swearing off of them for a few years, and I have to say they've all been great!

    I hope this one rocks!
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    Edited by strider_mt2k at 07/27/09 8:19 AM strider_mt2k was starred strider_mt2k was unstarred
    Image of NurseDave NurseDave
    07/17/09

    In reply to USB Chocolate Popsicle Flash Drive
    Giz interview questions:

    Can you surf the web?

    Ummm, wanna beer?
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_OverSleptThisMorn GitEmSteveDave_OverSleptThisMorn
    04/23/09

    In reply to How Can a Hard Drive's Platter Shatter, Without Evidence of Impact?
    This had to have been caused by a psycho weilding some kind of object that had a rubber tip. Hrmmm, I have one suspect:
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    04/24/09

    @Illiterate?EmailMeForHelp_GitEmSteveDave: Can't you just imagine a real live Hank Hill yelling at a bald Lou-Ann to get away from his truck?
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    04/24/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: I dunno, she looks more like Bobby then Lou-Ann...
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    04/24/09

    @Jrsy Devil's Food Cake®: Except Bobby can cook and dance and keep healthy relationships.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_OverSleptThisMorn GitEmSteveDave_OverSleptThisMorn
    04/24/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: Ahhhh, Dang it lu-anne, get away from my truck. She's still under factory warranty!
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    04/23/09

    In reply to How Can a Hard Drive's Platter Shatter, Without Evidence of Impact?
    When problems like these crop up, I generally pass blame to the one thing that I'm certain screws with us every hour of the day, every day of the week: sunspots
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    03/26/09

    In reply to Floppy Skywalker and Darth Disk Fight to the Death or Something
    There are some good part 2s: Spiderman 2, Dark Knight, LOTR 2, Aliens (2), Back to the Future 2, Terminator 2, Wing Commander 2, Team Fortress 2, Apple 2, Fallout 2, Soul Reaver 2, Baldur's Gate 2, etc.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_OverSleptThisMorn GitEmSteveDave_OverSleptThisMorn
    03/26/09

    @Hello Mister Walrus: I'm with you on Superman 2, except for the "Forget Me Kiss". I am still yet to understand that.
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    03/26/09

    @Hello Mister Walrus: Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    03/26/09

    In reply to Floppy Skywalker and Darth Disk Fight to the Death or Something
    Hey, wait a minute. Are you saying that you didn't like The Dark Knight? Blasphemy Diaz, blasphemy.


    Spiderman 2 was also notably better than part 1.

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    Image of Barry99705 Barry99705
    03/26/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: Spiderman 1 had better fake nipples in it though.
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    03/26/09

    @Barry99705: Yeah, I have no clue why DaFoe agreed to that.
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    03/26/09

    In reply to Floppy Skywalker and Darth Disk Fight to the Death or Something
    um.
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    Image of Guy Whitey Corngood Guy Whitey Corngood
    03/26/09

    @JawzX2 hearts Beer: err...
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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    03/26/09

    @Guy_Whitey_Corngood: hmm...
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