WD Scorpio Blue WD5000BEVT Review

QuietOC · Post by **QuietOC** » Tue Jan 06, 2009 12:42 pm

I nearly bought this 2 platter 5400rpm drive, but instead got a deal on an open box 7200rpm WD Scorpio Black WD3200BEKT. The big Blue doesn't seem too far from the smaller Black's performance. Too bad they didn't include the 500GB Seagate 5400.6 in the test.

josephclemente · Post by **josephclemente** » Tue Jan 06, 2009 5:48 pm

I picked up one of these drives for my laptop, it does perform nicely and is very quiet.

line · Post by **line** » Tue Jan 06, 2009 6:57 pm

Here are the absolute numbers. The new Scorpio leads the way in power efficiency.

The low-power idle number doesn't make sense though. I wouldn't expect it to be higher than active idle. At most it should be equal, indicating the feature is not implemented, or for some reason hasn't kicked in. Maybe there was an error with this particular reading.

QuietOC · Post by **QuietOC** » Wed Jan 07, 2009 7:00 am

line wrote:Here are the absolute numbers. The new Scorpio leads the way in power efficiency.

I am pretty certain the Seagate 5400.6 uses even less power, but it also seems to have much slower latency--so it probably has lower performance/Watt. However, the old 320GB 5400.5 isn't too far from the new Scorpio Blue either.

line · Post by **line** » Wed Jan 07, 2009 12:04 pm

I'm curious to see how the Hitachi 5K500.B compares too.