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WD Scorpio Black 500GB Notebook Hard Drive Review

Manufacturer: Western Digital
Product: WD Scorpio Black WD5000BEKT 500GB
Date: Mon, Sep 27, 2010 - 12:00 AM
Written By: Nathan Kirsch -
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ATTO Disk Benchmark v2.46

ATTO is one of the oldest hard drive benchmarks that is still used today. ATTO measures transfers across a specific volume length. It measures raw transfer rates for both reads and writes and places the data into graphs that you can easily interpret. The test was run with the default runs of 0.5kb through 8192kb transfer sizes with the total length being 256mb.

Western Digital Scorpio Black 500GB:

ATTO Disk Benchmark v2.41 Results

Segate Momentus 7200.4 500GB:

ATTO Disk Benchmark v2.41 Results

Segate Momentus XT 500GB:

ATTO Disk Benchmark v2.41 Results

Benchmark Results:  The Seagate Momentus XT was able to reach 112MBps on the read test and 101MBps on the write test in the Overlapped I/O benchmark.   

ATTO Benchmark Results

4MB Files Test Comparison Chart - Overlapped I/O: The Seagate Momentus XT was just slightly faster than the Momentus 7200.4 and WD Scorpio Black in the read test, but the WD Scorpio Black 500GB drive was significantly faster in the write test for ATTO.  

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Review Index
Page 1 - WD Scorpio Black 500GB Laptop HDD
Page 2 - The Test System
Page 3 - HD Tach v3.0.4.0
Page 4 - HD Tune v4.60
Page 5 - HD Tune v4.60 - Random Access
Page 6 - SiSoftware Sandra 2010
Page 7 - CrystalDiskMark v3.0
Page 8 - ATTO Disk Benchmark v2.46
Page 9 - PCMark Vantage
Page 10 - Free Capacity and Final Thoughts