news 28 Posted March 25, 2009 WD Scorpio Blue 500GB Notebook Hard Drive The Western Digital Scorpio Blue series of hard drives was designed to offer high-performance, low power consumption, and cool operation. The Western Digital Scorpio Blue 500GB hard drive is one of the largest on the market, which makes it perfect for your storage needs. Read on to see how this 5400 RPM drive performs when LR puts it to the test. Quote: "The Seagate Momentus 7200.2 200GB hard drive was able to reach 48MBps on both the read and write tests, but the Western Digital Scorpio Blue 500GB hard drive was able to reach 84MBps on the same test. With a 75% faster transfer rate the Western Digital Scorpio Blue 500GB hard drive is very impressive.." or "The performance benchmarks on the WD5000BEVT blew me away as I never expected this 5400RPM drive to perform better than a 7200RPM notebook hard drive when it comes to read and write performance. The twin platter design that Western Digital is using on this drive is obviously very quick. The only performance hit that was observed when using the drive was the access times, which were lower as this is a 5400RPM drive..." Article Title: WD Scorpio Blue 500GB Notebook Hard Drive ( -at -) Legit Reviews Article URL: http://legitreviews.com/article/937/1/ -- Share this post Link to post