It should go without saying that Solid State Drives grab most of the headlines but when push comes to shove, most people turn to the good old fashioned hard disk for the vast majority of their storage needs.

This is the second 750GB Notebook drive review I am going put up, this one is from Western Digital. Black series from Western Digital, as always pitched as a High Performance drives. Would you like to have one-or do you even need one? Here's what's up!

Western Digital's Scorpio Black 750GB notebook drive is another in the recent spurt of high-capacity laptop HDDs such as the Toshiba MK7559GSXP and Toshiba MK1059GSM . But if you want to get a faster hard drive for your notebook, which route do you go down?

Last week, we tested Western Digital's Scorpio Blue 750 GB (WD7500BPVT) . This Blue Edition is WD's answer to those looking for a reasonably fast, well priced 750 GB notebook hard drive. This week, we're taking a look at its newer Black Edition counterpart - the Western Digital WD7500BPKT.

Very fast; at par with; and better than some of the desktop drives; 750 GB of storage; Very well priced and great value for money

Runs rather hot; at 60 degrees during heavy use

I used Acronis to clone my factory (500GB)drive in just 45 minutes to my new 750GB! Powered up and right away I noticed a big improvement in programs loading and powering up more quickly! I am very pleased with everything so far and the 5 year warranty was a real pleasure also, thank you Dell!

Laptops can be notoriously difficult to upgrade, so adding a faster hard disk is one of the few things you can do easily increase performance. Western Digital's Scorpio Black range of 2.5in hard disks all have 7,200RPM spindle speeds, so should be faster than the typical 5,400RPM disks found in most...

Anyone who has a laptop can attest to the fact that no matter how much space your harddrive has, it will always become full just as you need to download a video for work or rip one of your favorite CDs.

I ordered my hard drive at 2.30 pm Monday and it was here by 4pm Tuesday, and that was the free delivery!

It's now possible to squeeze as much as a terabyte into any regular laptop, thanks to the latest 1TB notebook drives from Western Digital that use only two platters inside. This means the drive's thickness can be kept at the magic 9.5mm.

With my Reward-Zone points, I got this for >$60 delivered to my door, FAST! Installation was quick and painless. Everything fired right up and was recognized first try, after initialization I ran a few free tests on the drive and everything came back aces.

Great price; easy installation; trusted name.

nothing yet......knock on wood