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    WD7500BPKT - 750GB 7200rpm Western Digital

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by campbell, Jan 18, 2011.

  1. campbell

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    Hello, I've been looking to upgrade to 7200rpm in recent time but, haven't gotten around to it.

    Tomorrow I'm going to be buying the WD7500BPKT for $149 Australian which is on parity with the American dollar these days. It is going to be replacing my 5400rpm WD3200BEVT.

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    I want to brush aside a couple of large downloads that I'm partly through on the current operating system before I change over harddrives. It should take a couple of days but, after that I'm going to charge over the hardrive. ( So, probably on Friday evening )

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    I can't find any performance statistics released for the WD7500BPKT yet. So, after I've installed it, what testing would anyone here like me to do? Would anyone like me to do compare with the Scorpion Blue that I currently have?

    I don't know what programmes that I should use. I only have HD tune 2.55 at the moment. Thanks
     
    campbell, Jan 18, 2011
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    should be 30% faster than the scorpio blue
    run crystaldiskmark and hd tune on it.
     
    Bearclaw, Jan 18, 2011
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    I havent seen this model for sale in the us its very new.

    Send a test to this forum to help out north americans who might want to get one
     
    stamar, Jan 18, 2011
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  4. Bearclaw

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    I would wait for the price to go down.

    the 500gb black is regularly at $59.99. Unless you just want the maximum capacity possible it's hard to justify almost 3 times the cost for 250gb more.
     
    Bearclaw, Jan 18, 2011
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  5. stamar

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    ya it would have to compete with a seagate model that is now 110 so i would expect it to go for that.
     
    stamar, Jan 19, 2011
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    If available in Australia, the Seagate Momentus ST9750420AS 750GB 7200 RPM drive is only $110 here. I have one and it runs great. Use it in an external USB enclosure.
     
    HTWingNut, Jan 19, 2011
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  7. stamar

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  8. campbell

    campbell Notebook Enthusiast

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    I have bought it now for $149.

    Manufactured 30 December 2010
    Made in Thailand.

    I will install in on Saturday and then run those tests.
     
    campbell, Jan 19, 2011
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  9. Phil

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    Looking forward to the benchmarks
     
    Phil, Jan 19, 2011
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    Congrats. Definitely would be good to see some benches.
     
    HTWingNut, Jan 19, 2011
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    I was thinking of grabbing myself a Momentus XT 500GB from PCCaseGear, but I don't do anything special enough to be bothered spending the $120 or so.
     
    roastedpork, Jan 21, 2011
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  13. stamar

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    Any data on this thing? Im thinking of getting one.
     
    stamar, Jan 21, 2011
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    From the review it seems slow, but i don't know if its slower then Scorpio Blue 640GB which i own and is VERY slow in my experience.

    But from i see, almost all 500GB series from all brands are fast, must be the platters causing.
     
    NEX_SASIN, Jan 21, 2011
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    the 500GB Momentus XT owns from what i've seem in my time owning it.. this drive has no chance of beating it.

    Panther214
     
    Panther214, Jan 21, 2011
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  16. stamar

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    The review is of the seagate.

    Theres no review showing any speed of this one.
     
    stamar, Jan 21, 2011
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    Did not you see the post by Phil? Let me give you page-by-page links if you don't know how to navigate through it:

    http://techreport.com/articles.x/20255/1
    http://techreport.com/articles.x/20255/2
    http://techreport.com/articles.x/20255/3
    http://techreport.com/articles.x/20255/4
    http://techreport.com/articles.x/20255/5
    http://techreport.com/articles.x/20255/6
    http://techreport.com/articles.x/20255/7
    http://techreport.com/articles.x/20255/8
    http://techreport.com/articles.x/20255/9
    http://techreport.com/articles.x/20255/10
    http://techreport.com/articles.x/20255/11



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    ramgen, Jan 21, 2011
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  18. stamar

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    Oh I had only read the opening page.

    It does show its faster than a wd black.
     
    stamar, Jan 21, 2011
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    Wow looks pretty fast! Good competitor for the newish Samsung 640GB drive!
     
    King of Interns, Jan 22, 2011
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  21. Charles P. Jefferies

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    Very nice results, that's one fast drive. Thanks a bunch for posting your results.

    And yes the WD7500BPKT sure is expensive right now, $120 when you can get the WD5000BEKT for less than $70.

    Now the only mystery is the upcoming Hitachi Travelstar 7K750, which is supposed to be available this quarter. :)
     
    Charles P. Jefferies, Jan 22, 2011
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    Well that's what you get for being an early adopter! Maybe looking to replace my MomentusXT drive now..
     
    Tsunade_Hime, Jan 23, 2011
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  23. campbell

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    Yes, I think that it is worth the upgrade. The laptop is feeling certainly 30% + faster than it was a couple of days ago.

    The noise level is a notch higher than the WD3200BEVT when it is starting up but, it is worth it as it is starting possibly 50% faster as it was with the old 5400rpm harddrive.

    I have always have the minimum of programmes running on the start-up with only the network, sound, volume and time on the bottom right of the operating screen. I never use virus scanners so, I can be very sure that that this was well worth the money as I feel like I have a new notebook once again.

    At idle, I would say that it is quieter than the WD3200BEVT - I can't prove this though.

    I have just retested Crystal Disk Mark with filesizes of 100mb which seems to be the standard in many tests that others have done.
    http://img718.imageshack.us/img718/4043/wd7500bpktcdm5100mb.png

    - If there are any simple benchmarks that anyone would like me to do, then feel free to ask.
     
    campbell, Jan 23, 2011
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    Hmmm... that is still a good 18% slower than my 500GB XT on that copy score.

    Is this a single partition of 698.5GB's?
     
    tilleroftheearth, Jan 23, 2011
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    It is definitely worth the wait for Hitachi 7K750 before deciding for an upgrade. Below are the noise levels (both taken from their product spec sheets):

    WD 7500BPKT-
    Idle: 28dB
    Seek: 28dB

    Hitachi 7K750-
    Idle: 25dB
    Seek: 27dB

    I am currently using a 500GB Hitachi (7K500) and it is inaudible.


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    ramgen, Jan 23, 2011
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  28. campbell

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    Yeah, single partition.
     
    campbell, Jan 23, 2011
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    Is there any way you can load ... write like 200Gb or 300Gb of data on this drive and the then run the benchmark utility? I'm interested if it's still this fast. What's the lowest temperature of the drive after like 15 minutes since you powered on the laptop?
     
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    what do you want to measure ? all HDD is slower towards the end of the addressable LBA, a physical characteristic that cannot be changed.
     
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  31. stamar

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    I only looked at the hdtune.

    But that shows it is faster than my xt. A bit faster in every measurement.
     
    stamar, Jan 23, 2011
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  32. Bearclaw

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    By comparison my WD5000BEKT scores 105mb/s in CDM
     
    Bearclaw, Jan 23, 2011
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    I couldn't get any of my WD5000BEKTs get past 99.7Mb/s... and I have three partitions per drive. And I ran the test on the fastest partition. The 750Gb is listed as a faster drive than the 500Gb ScorpioBlack on the WD website and they really mean it.
     
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  34. Phil

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    It seems that WD Blacks have always been relatively slow with file copies. They perform well in other areas though.
     
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    Sounds like a design choice gearing towards multitasking over absolute throughput.
     
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  36. stamar

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    Im going to wait for the first sale
    I knew there was something weird about that seagate being slower than a 500 gb drive
     
    stamar, Jan 24, 2011
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    I really wanted to get one of these but i ended up getting a hitachi 7k500 for 60$

    I figure its actually twice as much for 50% more. If it was twice as much for 100% more itd be a no brainer.

    It seems to be priced a little more than its worth at the moment.

    My next laptop hd is actually going to be a 12.5 mm the biggest one on the market. Whether thats going to be a 1.25 or a 1.5 tb one Im not sure.
     
    stamar, Jan 24, 2011
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    Even i'm waiting for the 7K750... !!! It's gonna be the New Superstar & King of 750 GB at 7200 RPM.... well at least i hope so.... :)
     
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    Is that a big difference? Seems like you wouldn't be able to hear a difference of 3 dB when idle and 1 dB when seeking. At least on my laptop, the fan usually runs at a slow speed all the time (and this seems common on a lot of modern laptops). The noise from that is quiet, but slightly louder than my current HD, so I really can't hear the HD at all when idle. I would be more concerned with seeking noise, as I know some drives are a lot louder than others in this respect. From this though, I think 1 dB isn't enough to make much of a difference.
     
    OmegaM41, Jan 26, 2011
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    For the person that asked about temperatures - the highest I've observed it was at 45 degrees C, which isn't bad for the Australian summer. I hate to sound like I have some type of bias but, it certainly runs cooler than the 5400rpm that I had previously.

    If you listen you can note that the will be a slight decibel difference between idle and seek with idle being slightly audible but not unreasonable with the level of noise.

    Sure, I could have waited to try what Hitachi released but I wanted this now.
     
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    Can someone tell me what is the windows 7 experience index score of the hard drive?
     
    Layne, Jan 28, 2011
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    I can't imagine that it'd be anything other than 5.9, which is where pretty much all 7200 RPM hard drives are placed at (because WEI caps platter hard drives at 5.9).
     
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    I was hoping it would break the 5.9 barrier...
     
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    Unless WEI has changed, _no_ platter based hard drive breaks the 5.9 barrier. Not even 10K desktop Velociraptors do, let alone any mobile 2.5" hard drive.
     
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    Judicator, thanks for clearing that up for me.
     
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    It is indeed 5.9. For comparison purposes, my old HD (which was a 160 GB 5400 rpm WD Scorpio) received a 5.0.
     
    OmegaM41, Jan 31, 2011
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    Yeah, but capped at 5.9 doesn't tell us much. :(

    My Momentus XT with a lowly P8400 + 8GB RAM can give my desktop vRaptors a run for their money and even beat them in isolated examples too (desktop has a 9450Q with 4x vRaptors and 4 2TB data drives and 8GB RAM).

    Yet, they still get the same 5.9 WEI 'score'!

    I hope SP1 of Windows 7 comes with more granularity in the WEI scores for mechanical and solid state HD's.

    How inadequate is the granularity now?

    My Scorpio Blue (in the same notebook system) also scored a 5.9 and it is embarassing slow today.
     
    tilleroftheearth, Feb 1, 2011
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    Hrm my MomentusXT also gave my E6410 a 5.9 but the system is held back by Intel HD graphics lol.

    What's wrong with Scorpio Blue? My Scorpio Blue 640 GB in my D620 is plenty fast enough, and very quiet and cool.

    If the initial reviews of the 750GB Scorpio Black keep up, might look to get one. :D
     
    Tsunade_Hime, Feb 1, 2011
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    Nothing wrong with the Scorpio Blue - just that ever since the 7K500, XT and the 500GB Black were introduced, the Blue seems like molasses to me.

    What is an eye opener is that the Scorpio Blue replaced (4) Seagate 7200.4's and it was faster than any of them - but also, because it cost me 3 times the price of the Black I just picked up! All in the space of a few short (12/14?) months... sigh!
     
    tilleroftheearth, Feb 1, 2011
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