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WD Scorpio Black 500 GB HDD

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Western Digital has finally upped the total disk capacity of its Scorpio

Black Series from 320 GB spec to 500 GB keeping the traditional Scorpio Black

performance intact. The Scorpio series drives make use of the 'WhisperDrive'

technology for quieter operation and 'ShockGuard' and 'SecurePark' to protect

the drive mechanics and data platter surfaces. These technologies make these

drives apt for usage in laptops. The 7200 RPM HDD in the 2.5 inch form factor is

designed to deliver desktop class performance for laptops. Operating through the

SATA 3Gbps interface and with a drive cache of 16 MB, this drive consumes power

equivalent to a 5400 RPM drive which is a major plus for this drive. This is

achieved by the methodology utilized for seeking data by the drive. We tested

the drive using the HDTune benchmark. The drive was able to garner an average

transfer speed of about 80 MB/sec with an access time of 15.1 ms. These scores

compare well to the Seagate momentus XT hybrid Drive (reviewed in this issue) in

terms of average transfer speeds although the access times are not comparable.

The disk compares well with any other standard pure HDD available today . With a

cost per GB of Rs 9, this disk delivers competitive HDD performance at a good

price.

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Price: Rs 4,500 ( 5-year warranty)



Meant for: Laptops


Key Specs: 7200 RPM, 2.5 inches, 500 GB


Contact: Sushil Bandi, Western Digital








Website: www.wdc.com


SMS Buy 130981 to 56677





Test Bed: Gigabyte P55A-UD7 motherboard , Intel Core i5 661 (3.33 GHz)

Processor, 2GB (1800MHz) Patriot DDR3 RAM, NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT

graphic card, Windows 7 Ultimate .

Bottomline: The drive delivers desktop class performance for laptops at

a decent price.

Shikhar Mohan Gupta

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