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    Western Digital 640 GB Scorpio Blue WD6400BEVT 9.5mm

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Phil, Sep 9, 2009.

  1. diesel1313

    diesel1313 Notebook Consultant

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    Agreed I have this drive ony my laptop and its slow as molassis hopefully getting my seagate 7200 RPM 16 mb cache on today
     
    diesel1313, Feb 25, 2010
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  2. Phil

    Phil Retired

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    You'll notice more improvement if you get the Hitachi 7K500.

    The Seagate 7200.4 is about as fast as the 5400rpm WD5000bevt. (as shown in the review by Techreport)
     
    Phil, Feb 25, 2010
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  3. sean473

    sean473 Notebook Prophet

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    Agreed... 7K500 should be a great upgrade.... i saw benchmarks for the WD drive and its quite slow... about as slow as my drive...
     
    sean473, Feb 25, 2010
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  4. Texanman

    Texanman Master of all things Cake

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    Texanman, Jul 1, 2010
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    cookinwitdiesel Retired Bencher

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    These are great drives, finally got one myself and as a storage drive it is just a fast as the WD3200BEKT it replaced. Not advisable as an OS drive though as the 4k speeds were halved
     
    cookinwitdiesel, Jul 1, 2010
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  6. Texanman

    Texanman Master of all things Cake

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    Its better then my Hitachi 7200rpm drive that came in my envy according to the webs.. I can't wait for it to get here...then I gotta spend the next few hrs taking apart my envy, joy.
     
    Texanman, Jul 1, 2010
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  7. ssjflame

    ssjflame Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi
    I have a problem to ask, is this normal that this things click like hell when idle?

    Thank you
     
    ssjflame, Jan 30, 2011
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  8. Tsunade_Hime

    Tsunade_Hime such bacon. wow

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    No it is not normal, the Scorpio Blue is my Latitude D620 is very quiet. I don't think I even hear it during heavy load...

    You can also look at this Hard disk drive automatic acoustic management (AAM)
     
    Tsunade_Hime, Jan 30, 2011
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