Advantages: Fast read/write, 7200rpm spindle speed
Disadvantages: Only 2mb data buffer, Only supports upto ATA100

...Having already owned several western digital hard drives before, i knew these would be pretty reliable. Installation was fairly easy - four screws, one data cable, and one power cable connection. The bios on the motherboard recognised the drive perfectly. Once installed and setup, i noticed the difference over my old hard drive straight away. The boot up speed was a lot quicker and i once again had space for all my bits and pieces(after i had sorted windows out). (just for reference my old drive was a 20gb 2mb Cache 5400rpm). For any one not into the techie side of things, the faster the spindle speed and the bigger the cache size, the Faster the drive. Although 40gb doesnt sound very big compared to the other sizes available, you can still hold a lot of information on a drive of this size.... Read review

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Advantages: 250GB Lots of memory, Low power consumption, Cheap
Disadvantages: 2.5-inch limits it to USUALLY Laptops but can be used in desktop computers

...Fairly decent hard-drive. Western Digital are a well trusted company, especially for computer equipment. 250GB is a massive storage device, you could store ALOT and with low power consumption makes it even better. Looking at the prices too this is a real bargin! I really recommend this hard-drive, the real-time data protection will help if your computer ever shuts off. It is also a 2.5-inch hard-drive which usually associates with laptops, however there are some desktop computers which could use this. If you did want to buy this for a desktop computer but your computer could only use 3.5-inch then you could buy an external hard-drive shell which could plug straight into your computer OR laptop through USB or Firewire. Overall I think this is a very nice hard-drive and a good bargin at the price it's avaliable for.... Read review

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Advantages: 250GB of internal memory!! At a reasonable price, too!
Disadvantages: No major disadvantages. Not as quiet as I believed it would be.

...I purchased this drive as an upgrade of my Acer Aspire laptop's 60GB 2.5" internal hard drive, and so far I have been delighted with it! The reason I chose this drive in particular, was due to the fact that it is an ATA drive (not SATA). ATA is the older drive technology, and as my Acer laptop is a few years old, it unfortunately does not support the more recent (and higher capacity) SATA internal drives. SATA drives are far more widespread now and are a bit easier and cheaper to find than the older ATA drives, but if you have an older laptop model, you will probably have to buy an ATA drive such as this one. After searching high and low, this 250GB drive from Western Digital was the highest capacity ATA internal drive I could find at a reasonable price, and so far it has not let me down! It took a bit of effort to clone my original... Read review

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Advantages: Light and Reliable
Disadvantages: keyboard

...I have been using DELL laptop since I start working 5 years back. My first Laptop was inpiron 2500, No Problem at all. After all, I have decided to change to Dell D600 with high end spec.40GB hitachi HD, 1024 Sdramm, DVD/CD-RW. Been using this laptop for a year untill now. The onle problem I have is the Hard Drive. I have change 2 replacement for Hitachi Hard drive. I got fed up, I dicided not to get hitachi anymore. I have move my decision to Western Digital- scorpio 80GB, which I think more reliable, than hitachi. Beside than the Hard disk Issue. Everything incluede the system board and software Issue were all Satisfied. Due to my heavy work load and program, DELL D600 still giving me a best performance than rest. More stable and reliable. The Only best of this laptop is Build-up everything which you need or dont need it. Etc... Read review

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Advantages: tense,exciting well acted cop thriller
Disadvantages: might be too violent for some viewers

....However Scorpio is one step ahead and will leave Harry battered,bruised and pushed to the absolute limit. The part of Harry was originally offered to western legend John Wayne.He however Turned the role down distrubed by the story and violence.Frank Sinatra was next in line but had to drop out due to a hand injury.Siegel whose most successful film at the time had been [invasion of the body snatchers] then passed the role over to Clint eastwood.He had become an international star with Sergio leones "Spaghetti" westerns and also worked before with siegel on the excellent Coogans bluff{1968}.In that film he played a arizona sherrif tracking a prisoner who has escaped to new york.Eastwoods cool laconic performance worked well with siegels efficent crisp direction.The style was maintained for dirty harry but with a rougher harder edge.The film has a cat... Read review

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Advantages: A well directed film, well acted and full of action
Disadvantages: Is it moral or amoral

...Having established himself as a huge box office name in the spaghetti westerns starting with A Fistful Of Dollars Clint Eastwood moved seamlessly into police thrillers as Detective Harry Callaghan. The first film in the series was Dirty Harry which established the character and created a market into which Magnum Force, The Enforcer and Sudden Impact was fed. The film was set around the pursuit and ultimate capture of a crazed Sniper called Scorpio played with suitable wild-eyed madness by Andy Robinson. As we see Callaghan pursue him we see Callaghans personality develop as almost as pathologically criminal as those he pursues. The difference being he is on the side of law and order. Callaghan inevitably incurs the wrath of his superiors but sets for all time the classic but-he-gets-results versus go-by-the-book dilemma. Callaghan... Read review

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Advantages: 5.1 Mix
Disadvantages: Poor DVD extras

...It`s nice to see some of these old 70s classics getting an airing on DVD. Dirty Harry is the first in a series of films featuring the eponymous hero, a cop who takes on roles of judge, jury and executioner with any scumbag who is stupid enough to go ahead and make his day. Tracking down the psychopathic Scorpio, Harry doesn`t let little things like police procedures get in his way: his determination to pursue his own notion of justice regardless made him a kind of folk hero - a disturbingly fascistic kind of hero, but then this is America we are talking about. Eastwood is superb as Harry Callahan, still carrying with him something of his Man with No Name persona from the great Sergio Leone westerns. Don Siegel directs with panache, and we get a nice 5.1 remix here. Picture is as good as you could expect given the film`s age. All we need... Read review

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Advantages: everything
Disadvantages: nothing

...After 4 or 5 years of using Seagate and western digital I got a bit fed up of self corruption from Seagate and slow relay times from Western digital, so I turned to Samsung. The very first Samsung hard-drive I purchased was their 4gb IDE series and how I was amazed. Two years down the line and it still works perfectly, with great speeds. Now that ive bought myself one of their 20gb series I am even more amazed. The amount this hard-drive can hold and without flaw is astonishing to say the least, it’s a serious Seagate and Western digital beater. In my opinion you cannot get better than Samsung they rule the hard-drive industry hands down, ive done countless reformats, repartitions everything on both Samsungs and not once has either died on me like the unforgotten Seagate’s which I previously had and neither has it slowed... Read review

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Advantages: Relatively fast transfer rate, light, portable, reliable, looks good.
Disadvantages: Can be unexpectedly slow at times, can cause problems when unexpectedly disconnected.

...I am glad to see such a reliable brand name as Western Digital finally producing a USB Powered external hard drive - Thats right these drives require no power adapter they are powered directly through the USB cable (imagine them as very large USB memory sticks) As always this drive has an extremely compact design - Weighing in at only a few ounces (exactly 0.34 Pounds), these tiny drives can fit easily into a pocket or laptop case. With a transfer speed of about 480 Mbits/s (Max) these little drives are also quite quick on the uptake of data files. All Western Digital drives are designed to protect data and for this reason all of their products are put through a rigorous battery of tests before they are ready for market. For this reason I have always entrusted my files and documents to a Western Digital drive of some description... Read review

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Advantages: A true classic.
Disadvantages: Clothes and hairstyles are somewhat dated!

...". It would be fair to say that Clint Eastwood in the role of Inspector Harry Callaghan, the ultra-cool, hard-nosed San Francisco cop with a penchant for blowing away the bad guys with his .44 Magnum handgun, was most probably the template that most of these characters were based on! ~ ~ The original Dirty Harry movie that the subsequent series was based on took the movie world by storm back in 1971, and caused a furore in the media worldwide. Back then the star, Clint Eastwood, wasn't the well-known and respected Oscar-winning actor that he is today. In fact, he was best known as a leading actor in Westerns, in particular the "Fistful of Dollars" series, and in the long-playing TV series "Rawhide". (1959 - 1966) So it was a bit of a sea change for Eastwood to take on this role, and also a bit of a gamble. In fact, he WASN'T the first choice... Read review

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