xbitlabs.com Updated: 2011-10-04 14:30:07
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These three hard drives, namely 500 GB Western Digital Scorpio Blue and Seagate Momentus 5400.6, as well as 640 GB Samsung SpinPoint M7E receive our Recommended Buy title...
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500GB laptop hard drives have become common since the past few months, but the new WD5000BEVT from Western Digital is unique, as it crams all that space on just two platters. Featuring just two platters of 250GB each, this drive boasts of a lower power...
Fast, silent, large capacity, runs cool...
Expensive...
500GB laptop hard drives have become common since the past few months, but the new WD5000BEVT from Western Digital is unique, as it crams all that space on just two platters. Featuring just two platters of 250GB each, this drive boasts of a lower power...
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Western Digital differentiates its 5400rpm drives with the name Scorpio Blue, while Scorpio Black refers to the higher performance 7200rpm models.We tried a WD50000BEVT Western Digital Scorpio Blue 500GB unit, a 500GB 2.5in notebook drive. This is wel...
The Western Digital Scorpio Blue 500GB is a worthy replacement to a standard, smaller drive already in place in your laptop. While not quite as quick as a 7200rpm drive such as the Hitachi 7K320, it should be quick enough for most users, especially fo...
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With the notebook market growing faster than the desktop market, many consumers are finding that they don't have enough available storage space as they have filled up the drive rather quickly. If you fall into that category and are looking for a mas...
The WD Scorpio Blue 500GB notebook hard drive has smoking fast performance numbers that will make most 7200RPM hard drives run and hide!...
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maximumpc.com Updated: 2011-10-04 14:30:39
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Sometimes it’s OK not to take the medal stand in the race to get a product out first. Take the case of Western Digital’s new 5,400rpm Scorpio Blue 500GB notebook drive. It’s the fourth 500GB mobile drive to hit the market, after Hitachi’s Travelstar 5...
Never run out of space on your notebook again!...
SSDs and 7,200rpm drives outrun it.
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While two other 500 GB mobile hard drives have been available for a while, WD is the first to release this capacity in a model using the standard...
Efficiency at Video Playback Finally, we also looked at the Scorpio Blue’s power consumption when it has to deliver a defined data stream. In the case of this benchmark, this is a MPEG-2 stream for video playback. The 1.2 W result is good, but it c...
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Its been an interesting month so far now that I am spending a lot of time with notebook storage devices. Some made a good impression as an OEM drive, and couple of them was something you will consider as an aftermarket upgrade.5400RPM Drives- do they stil...
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Computerpoweruser.com Updated: 2014-01-31 01:25:23
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Discriminating mobile enthusiasts seeking a high-capacity hard drive upgrade for their notebooks would be well served by the WD Scorpio Blue. And it won’t break the bank...
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Western Digital 320GB Scorpio Notebook Hard DriveMany of us have probably wondered why Western Digital never came out with a 7200 RPM notebook hard drive. Well, they didnt need to. Their Scorpio family of 2.5" hard drives may run at "only" 5400 RPM bu...
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Performance numbers for WDs latest mobile drive, the 320 GB Scorpio WD3200BEVT, have been placed in the Performance Database.
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We chanced upon the largest 2.5-inch hard drive available in the market -- Western Digitals Scorpio WD3200BEVT, with a huge capacity of 320 GB. Now laptops are slowly but surely becoming a mainstream product, tentatively poised to replace desktops, so...
Fast, silent, huge capacity...
Quite expensive...
Here are the results of the real-world file copy test. 4 GB assorted write: 83.4s (49.11 MB/s) 4 GB sequential write: 66.7s (61.41 MB/s) 4 GB assorted read: 85.6s (47.85 MB/s) 4 GB sequential read: 65.6s (62.44 MB/s) 4 GB assorted intra-drive: 192.3s (...
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Western Digitals newest 2.5" drive made a splash when it was announced because it marked a new high in this form factors capacity. While all of that disk space in such a small package is great, it was all of the other things revealed during the revie...
320GB is presently the highest capacity for 2.5" hard drive, Strong performance, Very cool, Very quiet...
A 7200RPM model would be interesting, Three year warranty is OK, but five years would obviously be better...
Western Digitals newest 2.5" drive made a splash when it was announced because it marked a new high in this form factors capacity. While all of that disk space in such a small package is great, it was all of the other things revealed during the revie...
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