Western Digital Scorpio Black 500GB 2.5'' HDD Review

Storage/HDD by stefan @ 2011-01-31

The 500GB Scorpio Black 2.5'' HDD from Western Digital maintains the performance lead ahead of many similar drives on the market with the same capacity. Being available on the market for about 55 Euros, it goes head to head with the Hitachi 7K500-500 model, outperforming it in some cases.

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Test Setup and Test Results

Test Bench:

CPU : Intel I7 920 Retail @ 3.2GHz

Motherboard : Asrock X58 Extreme

RAM : G.Skill F3-12800CL8T-6GBPI PI Series

Video : Sparkle Calibre X460G 1GB GDDR5

Power Supply : Antec True Power New 750W

HDD : Seagate Barracuda 320GB 7200.10

 

With the help of AIDA64, we can extract more information regarding the drive:

 

 

 

The drive comes unformatted and after we format it with NTFS, we can see the total remaining disk space:

 

 

 

 

The Tests

 

AIDA64 Disk Benchmark

 

 

CrystalMark

 

 

 

HDTach

 

 

 

 

HDTune

 

 

 

 

PCMark05 HDD Test Suite

 

 

 

PCMark Vantage HDD Test Suite

 

 

 

Extra Tests:

 

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