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Western Digital Scorpio 2.5” HDD: Better Late Than Never (page 9)

Category: Storage

by Andrey Kuznetcov

[ 04/06/2005 | 04:22 PM ]

Conclusion

The testing of a new 2.5-inch Scorpio hard disk drive from Western Digital revealed a very competitive product. In fact, we didn’t expect anything else. Because if you are entering the market with a new type of device, you’d better know what you are doing. The hard disk drive should be at least as good as the competitor’s solutions, otherwise it will not get a warm welcome from the users.

And this is exactly what happened. If we do not take into account the drive from Seagate (ST9100823A), which actually belongs to a little bit different weight category, then WD Scorpio will look great against the competitors’ background, and will even boast a few advantages over them.

I would like to stress specifically two things. First, high write speed. And second a slight performance difference depending on the type of the file system we use: FAT32 or NTFS.

As it always happens in situations like that, the success of the Western Digital Scorpio family will depends on the attractive pricing, since it is as good as the competitors’ solutions in terms of features.