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    Western Digital Scorpio Black 160GB SPEED

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by mobytoby, Jul 28, 2008.

  1. mobytoby

    mobytoby Notebook Evangelist

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    Hi,

    I've seen different bench marks of the Western Digital Scorpio Black 320GB 7200RPM SATA-II 16MB , but I'm curious:
    is the 160 GB version just as fast? Does it have the same transfer rates?

    Big thanks!
     
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  2. Phil

    Phil Retired

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    According to the specs it's a one platter disk so it should be the same as a 3200BEKT.

    Here's a benchmark of the WD1600BEKT:
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    CrystalDiskMark 2.1 (C) 2007-2008 hiyohiyo
    Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/
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    Sequential Read : 86.331 MB/s
    Sequential Write : 91.702 MB/s
    Random Read 512KB : 42.521 MB/s
    Random Write 512KB : 75.573 MB/s
    Random Read 4KB : 0.647 MB/s
    Random Write 4KB : 2.006 MB/s

    Test Size : 50 MB
    Date : 2008/07/26 8:32:37

    Here's the HDTune result for 3200BEKT
     

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  3. K-TRON

    K-TRON Hi, I'm Jimmy Diesel ^_^

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    the transfer rate should be about 95% of the speed of the 320gb drive. reason being the harddrive has only two heads instead of four. the 160gb drive uses only on platter as phil mentioned, and the 320gb drive uses two 160gb platters.
    Usually the performance of a single platter drive is less because their are half the number of heads, but since their is only one disk, the data doesnt have to be divided as much, so the performance is pretty much the same as the two platter version.

    K-TRON
     
    K-TRON, Jul 28, 2008
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