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Scorpio

The 160GB "Scorpio" 2.5-inch hard disk drive is Western Digital's most recent release to the mobile market. This year, for the first time in the company's history, less than 50 percent of its shipments are desktop drives, thanks to the large demand for consumer notebooks with smaller, mobile hard drives.

Western Digital, the world's No. 2 supplier of hard drives, invited CNET News.com to its Fremont, Calif., plant to hack a hard drive to death with our fingers and a screwdriver. Here are the results.

Caption text by CNET News.com's Erica Ogg

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I use mostly DW hard drives its nice to see the inner workings without haveing to rip one apart. gives you a better understandig of the workings of it. thanx... (Read the rest)
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