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    An Ideas about WD 500GB 7200RPM drives

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by ramgen, Jul 21, 2009.

  1. ramgen

    ramgen -- Morgan Stanley --

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    Hey Guys,

    I am wondering if anyone has any info about the Western Digital's 500GB Scorpio Black series? Seagate has been around for almost half a year and still no news from WD as far as I know.

    Sorry if this has been mentioned before but I could not see any thread about that.

    Thanks...


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  2. nklive

    nklive Notebook Evangelist

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    There aren't any news about 500GB WD Scorpio Black yet. So we don't know yet. But why do you care :confused:, you have the Seagate!!!! I am pretty sure it won't be much different to yours. Don't tell me that you just want to see how it compares to yours. After all the blue scorpio 500GB has a very good performance.
     
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  3. ramgen

    ramgen -- Morgan Stanley --

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    Yeah, I was wondering how that would perform compared to Seagate 7200.4 series.

    Since the 500GB scorpio blue has very good performance, I think the 500GB scorpio blacks will be a lot better than 7200.4. (I may be wrong but that is my guess.)


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  4. Nixus

    Nixus Notebook Geek

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    WD released a 7200RPM version then it went away. My friend has it and it works great... just wish i had jumped in and bought one
     
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  5. ramgen

    ramgen -- Morgan Stanley --

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    Interesting... I have never come across anything about that drive on the web.

    Could you please ask him to run a HDTune test and post the screenshots here? That would be very interesting to see...


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    v_c Notebook Evangelist

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    Im not aware of any concrete details, but if you look at their (WD) product release history, you have to assume that a 500GB 7200 rpm drive will be released soon. I guess it will be announced in Sep/Oct. As well as a larger drive in their Scorpio Blue range.
     
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    sgogeta4 Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    While most likely better than the Seagate, I doubt the difference will be big.
     
    sgogeta4, Jul 21, 2009
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    I have hdtune up of the 7200rpm seagate, over in the xps forum. check the 1640 + 4670 thread page 1
     
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  9. ramgen

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    Thanks for pointing that out. I have been using 7200RPM Seagate too. I am interested in the WD version of them. (7200RPM, 250GB/platter)


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