http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2011/07/wd-scorpio-blue-1311189033.jpgBe still, our hearts! Could it be? One thousand twenty-four gigabytes of spinning Scorpio Blue fixed disk finally sized for standard height? If you’ll recall, the line of laptop-oriented HDDs was bumped up to 750GB way back in 2010, and now Western Digital’s shipping its 9.5mm-high 1TB Scorpio Blue HDDs (shortened from 12.5mm). Aside from the storage capacity increase, the dual-platter drive is essentially the same as any other Blue sporting a 5,400 RPM spin-speed and 8MB cache with Advanced Format support. This latest go-getter will be available for the rather reasonable price of $140, but hey, if that SSD-esque Scorpio black’s what you’re really lusting after, we understand. Full PR after the break.
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