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WD is aggressively exploring higher capacities. The 640GB Scorpio Blue provides ample capacity and sweet performance for upper-mainstream notebooks and portable storage devices. The two announced 750GB and 1,000GB 2.5” drives won’t fit into most notebook designs due to their 12.5mm height, but they should still raise the bar for compact, high-capacity storage...
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expertreviews.co.uk Updated: 2017-12-03 09:55:43
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Verdict: The 640GB Scorpio Blue is ideal if you want lots of storage in your laptop, but 500GB drives are better value. Western Digital's latest 2.5in internal SATA hard disk has a huge capacity of 640GB. Although 750GB and 1TB models are available...
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Product Code: WD50000BEVT The Western Digital Scorpio Blue 500GB is a 500GB 2.5in laptop hard drive. Western Digital differentiates its 5400rpm drives with the name Scorpio Blue, while Scorpio Black refers to the higher performance 7200rpm models. W...
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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The hard drive market seems to be spinning faster than the drives themselves, with news arriving on an almost daily basis. Seagate just announced that it will release flash SSD drives next year. Traditional hard drive maker Fujitsu first said that it i...
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of SATA we have seen hard disk speeds increase, and Native Command Queuing has also reduced the time it takes for hard disks to recover data on a drive when it’s located at different points across the physical disk. Additionally, the adoption of per...
Western Digital’s latest installment of the Scorpio series drives is a great addition, especially for those looking for larger capacities for single drive situations like Notebooks. If you want to set up larger capacity RAID arrays in small form ser...
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When you pull the Western Digital Scorpio from its packaging, its hard to believe that such a small - and inexpensive - hard drive can hold up to 298GB of data. The Western Digital Scorpio is less than 1cm thick and its 2.5in form factor allows it...
The Western Digital Scorpio isnt the fastest drive on the market by any means, but itll complement a high-end, or even mid-range notebook nicely. £149 is a pretty competitive price for such a small device, and makes it an enticing option for noteboo...
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When you pull the Scorpio from its packaging, its hard to believe that such a small component can hold up to 298GB of data. Its less than 1cm thick and its 2.5in form factor allows it to slot into any notebook that has a Serial ATA hard drive connect...
High capacity, good overall performance, practically silent operation...
Could take a while to fill up The Final Word As a replacement drive for a Serial ATA-based notebook, the Scorpio is ideal. It runs cool and silently, and its performance was surprisingly good in our tests.
As a replacement drive for a Serial ATA-based notebook, the Scorpio is ideal. It runs cool and silently, and its performance was surprisingly good in our tests.
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ozhardware.com.au Updated: 2017-12-03 09:55:44
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The Western Digital 320GB Scorpio sells online for around AU$285, which is not quite as good value in the dollar per Gigabyte stakes as the 250GB version (AU$205) it’s certainly not far off (89c per GB vs. 82c per GB) so there’s very little of...
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hardwarebbq.com Updated: 2017-12-03 09:55:43
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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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xbitlabs.com Updated: 2017-12-03 09:55:43
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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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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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Computerpoweruser.com Updated: 2017-12-03 09:55:43
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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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maximumpc.com Updated: 2017-12-03 09:55:43
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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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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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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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