WD Ships 750 GB 7200RPM HDD for Notebooks
The 750 GB WD Scorpio Black for notebooks is now available for $149.00.
Wednesday Western Digital said that it is now shipping the new WD Scorpio Black HDDs for high-performance notebooks and portable storage devices.
Arriving in a 2.5-inch form factor, the new Scorpio Black drives combine 7200 RPM spin speed and 16 MB of cache to deliver maximum notebook performance. They also use the SATA 3 Gb/s interface and feature WD's Advanced Format (AF) technology that optimizes hard drives to take advantage of the capabilities of newer operating systems.
"Our most demanding customers have come to expect 'no compromises' from all of our Black series products," said Matt Rutledge, vice president of product marketing for WD. "The new WD Scorpio Black drive does not disappoint, providing users of portable devices the necessary speed, significant storage and efficient power management needed to enjoy their favorite HD content, high resolution images, powerful office applications or gaming at home, in the office or on the road."
Although WD focuses on the 750 GB model in its latest announcement, the Scorpio Black series comes in five flavors: 160 GB, 250 GB, 320 GB, 500 GB and the recent 750 GB. The 750 GB drive is now available in the U.S. at select resellers and distributors for $149 USD.
"The entire family of WD Scorpio Black hard drives is designed for use in OEM notebook systems and has been tested across multiple platforms to allow anyone a successful upgrade of speed and performance to their current notebook system," WD said in the release.

Quick search on WDC.com says no. its 9.5mm high.
This is a 9.5mm Z-Height Drive at least according to this site: http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?id=6278494663
It is chinese but you can easily see the dimension numbers.
Edit: mikem_90 found it on Western Digitals Site.
It's mainly a matter of whether or not the laptop has two hard drive ports internally at that point imho although many come with eSATA these days. Still, that wouldn't be internal.
Get the Seagate if you want to lose your data in 6 to 9 months. If your needs are for longer storage, WD may be a good choice...
There is nothing wrong with Seagate in my experience... On average they seem to last about the same as WD....
So much this talk is based on anecdotal evidence, a tiny sliver of how many drives are out in the field and operating. By the time we really know concretely what failure rates are across a run of the drives, its been discontinued for years. Its like MTBF, just a guess based on a small sample.
I've heard the talk from all camps. Some people say WD's suck, some people say Seagates suck. Me, I'll just keep good backups instead.
Oh and let me add my experience with Seagate. Horrible. New 500GB 7200.12 died in 2 months, its replacement died in 2 weeks. Third is the charm but I'm now freaked out and checking SMART every 4-12 hours.
Performance however has been a very different story. With very few exceptions (many years ago), I've always had excellent performance from Seagate and WD drives, while performance from Hitachi and Fujitsu has varied from mediocre to very good, depending upon model. While I haven't used any of the recent Toshiba drives, performance on the older models was always mediocre to poor. The newer Toshiba drives are reported to be much faster, but I haven't tried them.
For power usage/battery life, the Fujitsu and Hitachi drives have generally been excellent, while the Seagate and WD drives have varied more between models.
Except for the reliability experience, all of the above is confirmed by the Tom's HW 2.5" HD charts.
Given that performance and reliability are always important to me, I prefer the Seagate and WD drives. Still, I usually wait until I've read a thorough review of a new model before buying one, just to make sure the performance is as expected and that the power usage is as specified. And since I've had plenty of HD failures over the years, I always maintain recent backups.