X-bit labs

Started by: Jake | Date 04/06/05

Comments: 7 | Last Comment:  07/12/08

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1. Argh!
/me bangs head repeatedly against wall.
You've forgotten *again* to include noise and power consumption (heat) measurements.
I didn't even read the benchmark section. You have *got* to get into your thick skull that there is more to laptop drives than pure performance.

I'm considering the 80 MB WD for a (not exactly tiny but very) portable MP3 player.

I'm ONLY interested in power consumption and heat levels.

DOH, forgot to mention NOISE levels aswell. Want to listen to my MP3's at low volume levels without a hum in the background

2. Thanks for the review. I am grateful you included the 40GB version. Excellent performance for everything except Visual C++!!

3. I got the Scorpio 800VE in my Dell Inspiron 1300 and I'm really happy about it: Quiet, fast and hopefully reliable

4. I have installed the Scorpio 60Gb in my notebook and it reaches 132 degrees Farenheit while doing afull backup to an external drive. This is way too hot for a laptop. The drive will probably fail within a year due to the heat if I do this once a week.

5. the scorpio is the loudest hard drive i've ever dealt with, so western digital is a bunch of filthy, lying cunts.

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