Western Digital's Scorpio is the first 250-GB notebook hard drive. We compare it to eight competing devices and rank it in our Interactive Notebook HDD Charts.

Hello,
nice review! By the way, i can confirm Samsung has been shipping the HM250JI some time. I am using it in my Dell D620 since one week.
Yours,
Nighty

nightyy, how does the Scorpio WD2500BEVS compare to the Samsung HM250JI  ?

Well,
 
i can only compare it to my former Seagate Momentus 5400.3 SATA 160GB (ST9160821AS). I feel the HM250JI to be slightly more silent and less hot but could not note a difference in performance.
 
Nighty

The samsung is more energy efficient than the WD model:
 
samsung  
 
Read/Write On-Track (typ.)  2.0 W  
 
Low power Idle (typ.)  0.6 W  
 
Standby (typ.)  0.25 W  
 
Sleep (typ.)  0.20 W  
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 WD
 Power Dissipation  
 Read/Write 2.50 Watts  
 Idle 2.00 Watts  
 Standby 0.25 Watts  
 Sleep 0.10 Watts