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Western Digital’s drive has been on the market for a few months, which you can tell, given its maximum transfer rates. This slightly older design cannot keep pace with the Samsung and Seagate drives, although the difference is small enough to not have...
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Product Code: WD5000BEKT While the Western Digital Scorpio Black 500GB laptop drive may not reach the dizzying heights scaled by desktop HDDs, it still is a satisfying product for those who’d like more speed but don't want to buy SSDs which offer low...
While the Western Digital Scorpio Black 500GB laptop drive may not reach the dizzying heights scaled by desktop HDDs, it still is a satisfying product for those who'd like more speed but don't want to buy SSDs which offer low storage capacity currentl...
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The Western Digital Scorpio Black (WD5000BEKT) is a high-performance 2.5in notebook drive boasting a 7200rpm spin speed, 16MB of cache memory, a SATA 3 GB/s interface and 500GB of storage space. It will suit IT professionals, multimedia enthusiasts an...
Excellent value for money, 7200rpm spin speed, quiet during operation...
Slightly slow at transferring smaller files...
The Western Digital Scorpio Black (WD5000BEKT) is a high-performance hard drive for data-hoarders on the go. It strikes a great balance between affordability, capacity and speedy read/write speeds...
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At first I would like to thank Western Digital for offering me a sample of their Scorpio Black 2.5'' 500GB HDD for review. About Western Digital: "Western Digital is one of the world’s largest makers of data storage products – a data storage pio...
In the performed tests, the Scorpio Black 500GB 2.5'' HDD from Western Digital performed faster than the 320GB version; in most benchmarks it was very close to the Hitachi 7K500-500, but there were also situations when it outperformed it with ease. Th...
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Expert Review When we think about high performance (mechanical) hard drives, we invariably tend to think about hard drives such as the WD VelociRaptor or at least some desktop hard drive, but never a laptop hard drive. Laptop hard drives have tradit...
Fast, Silent, Runs cool...
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The Western Digital Scorpio Black WD5000BEKT boasts of a huge 500 GB capacity, along with a superb 16 MB of cache and an RPM of 7,200. The drive runs really cool even at the peak of its activity, making it very suitable for just about any purpose. It...
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Western Digital’s drive has been on the market for a few months, which you can tell, given its maximum transfer rates. This slightly older design cannot keep pace with the Samsung and Seagate drives, although the difference is small enough to not have a serious impact on benchmark results. In fact, it’s WD’s WD5000BEKT that offe...
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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...
If you want a traditional 7200RPM Notebook hard drive the WD Scorpio Black 500GB drive offers a large storage space and the performance that users today demand at a great price point!...
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Technically, the 500 GB Western Digital Scorpio Black is very similar to the 320 GB Western Digital Scorpio Black. Both Scorpio Black drives use two platters spinning at 7,200 RPM and come with a 16 MB SDRAM buffer to speed things up. The only major c...
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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 o...
The drive delivers desktop class performance for laptops at a decent price. Shikhar Mohan GuptaPage(s) 1 I am interested in more information about this productI am interested in buying this productPrintCommentEmailDiggDel.icio.usRedditTwitter eBe...
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Although more than two years have elapsed since its public unveiling, the 320GB Western Digital Scorpio Black continues to hold the distinction of the fastest platter-only notebook drive we’ve tested at StorageReview.com. Sure, some SSDs have turned in...
In reviewing the 500GB Scorpio Black, one question really matters: Is it faster than the 320GB version? The answer depends on what you’re asking the device to do. While the 500GB WD traded punches with its 320GB sibling in most of our tests, our propr...
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3dGameMan.com Updated: 2011-10-04 14:35:28
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Video Review: Western Digital Scorpio Black 500GB 2.5" Hard Drive is a SATA II 2.5" HDD, but it has some impressive specs. It's 7,200 RPM, 16MB buffer size, very quiet, 500GB and very affordable. Also, when this drive is setup in a RAID 0 arrary it's b...
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Western Digital’s Scorpio Black 500 GB hard disk drive is a 2.5-inch form-factor internal SATA-2 model (model code WD5000BEKT). This series of WD is targeted at performance, and speedy it sure is considering it is a laptop drive! It spins at 7200rpm wh...
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Filetransfer speeds could have been better...
While this laptop drive may not reach the dizzying heights scaled by desktop HDDs, it still is a satisfying product for those who’d like more speed but don’t want to buy SSDs which offer low storage capacity currently. Its performance is comparable to...
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