Review

  1. Introduction
  2. Packaging and Specifications
  3. Closer Look
  4. Benchmarks
  5. Conclusion

Test Setup for: Western Digital Scorpio Blue 1TB Drive
Motherboard+ Processor Gigabyte 890GPAUD3H Rev 1.0+ AMD 550BE (Cooled with Thermaltake Big Typhoon)
Memory Kingston KHX1600C9D3P1K28G HyperX Genesis 8GB 1600MHz DDRIII
Primary drive Western Digital 3000HLFS Drive
Power Supply Corsair TX750
Chassis Lian Li A-70f Full Tower

This drive is tested with fresh installed Windows 7 64bit Home Premium with AHCI enabled.

 

Boot Load Test

Okay, this is pretty decent, considering 9.5mm Blue drive. Its too bad I haven’t test 12.5mm counterpart, that would have showed where this new drive really stands.

 

AS SSD Benchmarks

 

CrystalDisk Benchmark


4k runs with 32bit Que depth have always been much lower on mechanical drives than on SSDs. Keeping the HyperX aside, Western Digital Scorpio Blue pretty much follows WD Black 750GB.

 

HD Tune Benchmark

Western Digital also manages to stay ahead of the first generation Momentus XT drive. This is impressive. Now I am curious how the second-gen Momentus XT will stand against this.

 

8MB ATTO Benchmark

Yeah, its not fair for the HyperX SSD to stick its nose in the middle, but you can see all the drives are pretty much on the same level between 0.5MB-to-5MB read and Writes. Lets also not forget this 5400RPM drive is exchanging blows with 7200RPM drive.

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