http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/wd-ships-2-5-inch-640gb-standard-9-5mm-height-laptop-drive/ Engadget Comments for WD ships 2.5-inch 640GB standard 9.5mm-height laptop drive http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/wd-ships-2-5-inch-640gb-standard-9-5mm-height-laptop-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/wd-ships-2-5-inch-640gb-standard-9-5mm-height-laptop-drive/Sep 9th 2009 8:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/wd-ships-2-5-inch-640gb-standard-9-5mm-height-laptop-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/wd-ships-2-5-inch-640gb-standard-9-5mm-height-laptop-drive/Sep 9th 2009 8:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/wd-ships-2-5-inch-640gb-standard-9-5mm-height-laptop-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/wd-ships-2-5-inch-640gb-standard-9-5mm-height-laptop-drive/Sep 9th 2009 10:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/wd-ships-2-5-inch-640gb-standard-9-5mm-height-laptop-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/wd-ships-2-5-inch-640gb-standard-9-5mm-height-laptop-drive/Sep 9th 2009 11:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/wd-ships-2-5-inch-640gb-standard-9-5mm-height-laptop-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/wd-ships-2-5-inch-640gb-standard-9-5mm-height-laptop-drive/
Unless you install every single game available for the 360 or something... O.o]]>Sep 10th 2009 1:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/wd-ships-2-5-inch-640gb-standard-9-5mm-height-laptop-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/wd-ships-2-5-inch-640gb-standard-9-5mm-height-laptop-drive/
music/movies/pictures for starters (Don't get me wrong streaming is nice, but a on disk copy is nicer.), then add the usual fair like game demos, and of course download a few xbox originals, maybe some drive installs. ]]>Sep 10th 2009 3:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/wd-ships-2-5-inch-640gb-standard-9-5mm-height-laptop-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/wd-ships-2-5-inch-640gb-standard-9-5mm-height-laptop-drive/120GB drive would be nice. I assume the problem is that microsoft would see it easily and ban people for some reason or another.

If using an external drive, use a HFS+ file system, it gets around file size limitation of FAT32 which can come up with HD quality video.]]>Sep 10th 2009 4:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/wd-ships-2-5-inch-640gb-standard-9-5mm-height-laptop-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/wd-ships-2-5-inch-640gb-standard-9-5mm-height-laptop-drive/http://exophase.com/psp/transfer-blu-ray-movies-from-ps3-to-psp-2973.htm
http://exophase.com/ps3/future-ps3-firmware-to-support-managed-copy-4083.htm]]>Sep 11th 2009 6:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/wd-ships-2-5-inch-640gb-standard-9-5mm-height-laptop-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/wd-ships-2-5-inch-640gb-standard-9-5mm-height-laptop-drive/Sep 9th 2009 8:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/wd-ships-2-5-inch-640gb-standard-9-5mm-height-laptop-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/wd-ships-2-5-inch-640gb-standard-9-5mm-height-laptop-drive/
I hope it doesnt because those things suck even in an Ipod...]]>Sep 10th 2009 3:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/wd-ships-2-5-inch-640gb-standard-9-5mm-height-laptop-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/wd-ships-2-5-inch-640gb-standard-9-5mm-height-laptop-drive/Sep 9th 2009 8:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/wd-ships-2-5-inch-640gb-standard-9-5mm-height-laptop-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/wd-ships-2-5-inch-640gb-standard-9-5mm-height-laptop-drive/Sep 9th 2009 8:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/wd-ships-2-5-inch-640gb-standard-9-5mm-height-laptop-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/wd-ships-2-5-inch-640gb-standard-9-5mm-height-laptop-drive/Sep 9th 2009 8:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/wd-ships-2-5-inch-640gb-standard-9-5mm-height-laptop-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/wd-ships-2-5-inch-640gb-standard-9-5mm-height-laptop-drive/
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=9419596&type=product&id=1218102199901

It connects to your computer through USB 2.0 or eSATA (both cables included, thankfully) and accepts both 3.5" and 2.5" HDD's. I think I paid 30-40 bucks in-store 6 months ago, and I use the heck out of it, to clone or format drives, run diagnostics etc. It is so much easier then opening my case and plugging a drive into my PSU and motherboard. ]]>Sep 9th 2009 9:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/wd-ships-2-5-inch-640gb-standard-9-5mm-height-laptop-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/wd-ships-2-5-inch-640gb-standard-9-5mm-height-laptop-drive/
1) Go online,
2) Download and burn a Linux LiveCD,
3) take out your system hard drive,
4) put in the blank hard drive,
5) put in the Linux LiveCD,
6) boot to Linux off the CD,
7) have Linux format the drive
8) shut down your computer and take out the LiveCD
9) take out the blank hard drive and put in your PS3
10) screw your system drive back into your laptop

and done... easy cakes]]>Sep 9th 2009 11:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/wd-ships-2-5-inch-640gb-standard-9-5mm-height-laptop-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/wd-ships-2-5-inch-640gb-standard-9-5mm-height-laptop-drive/
Put in an XP cd or something and run the setup, format it to FAT32, and then cancel it.]]>Sep 10th 2009 9:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/wd-ships-2-5-inch-640gb-standard-9-5mm-height-laptop-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/wd-ships-2-5-inch-640gb-standard-9-5mm-height-laptop-drive/Sep 9th 2009 8:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/wd-ships-2-5-inch-640gb-standard-9-5mm-height-laptop-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/wd-ships-2-5-inch-640gb-standard-9-5mm-height-laptop-drive/Sep 9th 2009 9:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/wd-ships-2-5-inch-640gb-standard-9-5mm-height-laptop-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/wd-ships-2-5-inch-640gb-standard-9-5mm-height-laptop-drive/Sep 9th 2009 11:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/wd-ships-2-5-inch-640gb-standard-9-5mm-height-laptop-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/wd-ships-2-5-inch-640gb-standard-9-5mm-height-laptop-drive/
You have to pay for two plane tickets and you get diddled on the exchange rate.]]>Sep 10th 2009 3:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/wd-ships-2-5-inch-640gb-standard-9-5mm-height-laptop-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/wd-ships-2-5-inch-640gb-standard-9-5mm-height-laptop-drive/
640GB... I mean, if your entire collection of everything was that size and you were upgrading around your laptop, sure. But who wants to carry all of their media around with them? Too dangerous. I am always much much more interested with the 3.5" guys climb higher and get cheaper. That has more of an impact.]]>Sep 9th 2009 8:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/wd-ships-2-5-inch-640gb-standard-9-5mm-height-laptop-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/wd-ships-2-5-inch-640gb-standard-9-5mm-height-laptop-drive/Sep 9th 2009 8:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/wd-ships-2-5-inch-640gb-standard-9-5mm-height-laptop-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/wd-ships-2-5-inch-640gb-standard-9-5mm-height-laptop-drive/Sep 9th 2009 8:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/wd-ships-2-5-inch-640gb-standard-9-5mm-height-laptop-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/wd-ships-2-5-inch-640gb-standard-9-5mm-height-laptop-drive/
A lot of 17" laptops can hold two of these, and if you're going on a long trip or just want to have all of your content with you to go wherever you go with your laptop, its really convenient.]]>Sep 9th 2009 9:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/wd-ships-2-5-inch-640gb-standard-9-5mm-height-laptop-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/wd-ships-2-5-inch-640gb-standard-9-5mm-height-laptop-drive/Sep 9th 2009 11:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/wd-ships-2-5-inch-640gb-standard-9-5mm-height-laptop-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/wd-ships-2-5-inch-640gb-standard-9-5mm-height-laptop-drive/
What happens if i remember a song from 1999 and want to listen to it when im riding a horse?

(Fictional situation)]]>Sep 10th 2009 3:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/wd-ships-2-5-inch-640gb-standard-9-5mm-height-laptop-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/wd-ships-2-5-inch-640gb-standard-9-5mm-height-laptop-drive/I'm guessing this 500GB will be the last HDD I will have and the next upgrade will be a cheap SSD.]]>Sep 9th 2009 8:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/wd-ships-2-5-inch-640gb-standard-9-5mm-height-laptop-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/wd-ships-2-5-inch-640gb-standard-9-5mm-height-laptop-drive/Sep 9th 2009 9:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/wd-ships-2-5-inch-640gb-standard-9-5mm-height-laptop-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/wd-ships-2-5-inch-640gb-standard-9-5mm-height-laptop-drive/Sep 9th 2009 8:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/wd-ships-2-5-inch-640gb-standard-9-5mm-height-laptop-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/wd-ships-2-5-inch-640gb-standard-9-5mm-height-laptop-drive/Sep 9th 2009 9:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/wd-ships-2-5-inch-640gb-standard-9-5mm-height-laptop-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/wd-ships-2-5-inch-640gb-standard-9-5mm-height-laptop-drive/
You might actually see a perfomance increase, but the tradeoff is a little more heat coming out of your PS3.

Might I direct you to: http://playstation.joystiq.com/2007/10/02/7200-rpm-hdd-may-increase-your-ps3s-performance/]]>Sep 9th 2009 9:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/wd-ships-2-5-inch-640gb-standard-9-5mm-height-laptop-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/wd-ships-2-5-inch-640gb-standard-9-5mm-height-laptop-drive/Sep 9th 2009 9:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/wd-ships-2-5-inch-640gb-standard-9-5mm-height-laptop-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/wd-ships-2-5-inch-640gb-standard-9-5mm-height-laptop-drive/Sep 9th 2009 10:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/wd-ships-2-5-inch-640gb-standard-9-5mm-height-laptop-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/wd-ships-2-5-inch-640gb-standard-9-5mm-height-laptop-drive/Sep 9th 2009 10:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/wd-ships-2-5-inch-640gb-standard-9-5mm-height-laptop-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/wd-ships-2-5-inch-640gb-standard-9-5mm-height-laptop-drive/Sep 9th 2009 10:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/wd-ships-2-5-inch-640gb-standard-9-5mm-height-laptop-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/wd-ships-2-5-inch-640gb-standard-9-5mm-height-laptop-drive/Sep 9th 2009 11:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/wd-ships-2-5-inch-640gb-standard-9-5mm-height-laptop-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/wd-ships-2-5-inch-640gb-standard-9-5mm-height-laptop-drive/
Its not considerably bigger than the proper ipod, but its pocketability that counts.

Next is 3.5" Giant ipod.

(And then one with a 5.25" tape drive....)]]>Sep 10th 2009 3:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/wd-ships-2-5-inch-640gb-standard-9-5mm-height-laptop-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/wd-ships-2-5-inch-640gb-standard-9-5mm-height-laptop-drive/Sep 10th 2009 2:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/wd-ships-2-5-inch-640gb-standard-9-5mm-height-laptop-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/wd-ships-2-5-inch-640gb-standard-9-5mm-height-laptop-drive/Sep 10th 2009 3:26AM