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With Ultrabooks gaining popularity, Western Digital’s new 5400RPM Blue Slim aims to offer a solution that is both compact (it’s only 7mm thick) while still retaining a massive 1TB of capacity...
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Western Digital’s Blue Slim is certainly a unique drive, one which will invariably appeal to system builders who want to maximize the capacity of lower priced thin and light notebooks without significantly increasing overall cost. On the other hand, it...
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Earlier this year Western Digital released a new version of its Scorpio Blue notebooks drives measuring only 7mm in height, ideal for the latest generation ultra-thin laptops and Ultrabooks. We tested the 1TB model, the WD10SPCX. The new 7mm notebook d...
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The new Scorpio Blue 1TB is a little faster on average than the 9.5mm model, but not by much. More significant is how silent the new 7mm disks is, in numbers at least. In practice most other 2.5-inch notebook disks are also very quiet, and you won't hea...
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WD strikes back with the Slim, becoming the first to offer a full terabyte of storage in the Slim 7mm Z-Height...
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While Seagate is still working on thinning down its drive lineup, we do know that they too have reached the 500GB per platter density, with options like the Laptop Ultrathin at 500GB capacity. The problem here is that while Seagate has yet to offer anyth...
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Now that the prices of SSDs have dropped to well below 50 cents per GB, we expect that only few Hardware.Info readers will still want to use a conventional hard drive as their primary storage device. We still can't quite live without them, however, beca...
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With the emergence of slim form factor mobile devices like the Ultrabook, even hard disks have shrunk in size, one as the WD Blue Slim.I think there's nothing much to describe about drives. To me, it's just a matter of size, performance and price.Speaking...
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According to the official product page , the selling point is the size and the power consumption. The Slim 1TB drive comes at RM399 and has a two-years warranty from WD. It's a good product, though there's a price to pay for something slim. #spli...
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WD strikes back with the Slim, becoming the first to offer a full terabyte of storage in the Slim 7mm Z-Height...
![Bottom line](/static/images/reviews-bottomline.png)
While Seagate is still working on thinning down its drive lineup, we do know that they too have reached the 500GB per platter density, with options like the Laptop Ultrathin at 500GB capacity. The problem here is that while Seagate has yet to offer anyth...
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The WD Blue Slim is a 7mm, 2.5" hard drive that fits many form-factor limiting applications such as implementation in ultra-thin notebook computers, and it does so while being one of the first 7mm drives offered at the robust 1TB capacity-point. The 5,400...
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At 7mm, thinnest 1TB HDD on the market, Top of class performance for thin hard drive category, Doesn't trade capacity for z-height...
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Lagged slightly behind same capacity 9.5mm Scorpio Blue...
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The WD Blue Slim continues WD's move toward innovative designs that push the envelope in maximizing capacity while minimizing the HDD footprint. Beyond that, the Blue Slim was a serious contender that outperformed most of the drives in its class...
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It looks like Slim is in as far as the hard drive segment goes. But when you see the rate at which ultrabooks are being adopted, hard drive makers have reduce the flab on their internal laptop drives. It makes sense for original equipment manufacturers (O...
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The WD Blue Slim 1TB comes at an MRP of Rs 9200 which works out to Rs 9.87 per GB. In terms of performance, it outclasses both the Seagate SSHD as well as the UltraThin 500GB drives and it also offers a comparatively economical cost per GB. But this agai...
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Keeping the devices as slim as possible is something manufacturers are obsessed about when it comes to ultrabooks and other portable device types, but at the same time, its almost not possible unless other hardware components compliment such drives and ma...
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There's either little or no difference (the little difference is probably because this drive uses...
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With the emergence of slim form factor mobile devices like the Ultrabook, even hard disks have shrunk in size, one as the WD Blue Slim.I think there's nothing much to describe about drives. To me, it's just a matter of size, performance and price.Speaking...
![Bottom line](/static/images/reviews-bottomline.png)
According to the official product page , the selling point is the size and the power consumption. The Slim 1TB drive comes at RM399 and has a two-years warranty from WD. It's a good product, though there's a price to pay for something slim. #spli...
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