Competition between hard drive vendors increasingly heats up after Samsung and Toshiba introduced a 640GB hard drive of his mobile. Western Digital (WD) did not want to lose offering similar products.

Then announced the presence of disks 2.5 “with a capacity of 640GB by Western Digital. Scorpio Blue 640 is expected to be installed in the notebook. Of interest here is the height of 9.5 mm, which is the industry standard. For info, the majority of notebook hard disks larger, so not really be installed on the laptop without a few modifications.

WD Scorpio Blue 640GB is mentioned more efficient power consumption 30% compared to previous generations of Scorpio Blue. Other features include silence at work thanks WhisperDrive technology, and tolerance to shocks through ShockGuard technology

Harddisk Western Digital Scorpio Blue 640GB is expected to be released at a price of U.S. $ 149.