Western Digital Announces New Portable HDDs [750GB, 1TB Take-Along Storage Pushes Capacity Limits for Notebooks]

When it comes to digital storage it seems that we always want more. With people storing entire music libraries and scores of high-definition videos the importance of having the capacity to get the job done is paramount. Today, Western Digital (WD) announced the releaes of two new portable hard drives under the Scorpio Blue moniker, the WD7500KEVT 750GB and the WD10TEVT one-terrabyte model.

It can certainly be said that the Western Digital new mobile hard drives have reached new capacity extremes. The highlight is the WD10TEVT one-terabyte model – the industry’s highest-capacity 2.5-inch drive available. Sporting industry-leading 333 GB-per-platter technology the new WD Scorpio Blue SATA 2.5-inch hard drives offer mobile storage device and notebook users an enormous 1 TB capacity.

The WD Scorpio Blue 750 GB and 1 TB hard drives have a 12.5 mm form factor and are ideally suited for use in portable storage solutions, such as the newly released My Passport Essential SE Portable USB Drives. Other applications include select notebooks and small form factor desktop PCs, where quiet and cool operation is important. Both WD Scorpio Blue drives deliver 3 gigabits per second (Gb/s) transfer rates.

WD Scorpio Blue 750 GB WD7500KEVT model is available now through select distributors and resellers; the 1 TB capacity WD10TEVT is available now configured into My Passport Essential SE USB drives. The MSRP for the WD Scorpio Blue 1 TB drive is $249.99 and for the 750 GB version it’s $189.99.