| Article Index |
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| Western Digital Scorpio 320GB SATA-II 2.5inch Hard Drive Review |
| 2 - The Test Setup |
| 3 - PCMark05 |
| 4 - HDTune |
| 5 - Conclusion |
| All Pages |
Firstly: PCMark05
As with all our tests in the past, the PCMark05 tests we did with these drives were all run twice to ensure accurate results, with the printed result and average of the two. Only the hard drive specific tests were used.
Despite the Scorpio 320GB’s lower spin speed, it actually managed to outperform the faster spinning Seagate drive in 2 out of 3 tests in the first batch of benchmarks, and running well ahead of its older Scorpio stable mates.
The second batch of PCMark tests showed the Western Digital 320GB Scorpio pulling well ahead of the others, ahead of the older Scorpio’s and even edging out the 7200rpm Seagate Momentus by 8% to 15% on the Virus Scan and File Write tests respectively. This shows that if you’re after a hard drive with the best speed, perhaps bigger is better, and small and fast isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.
