Western Digital Scorpio Blue 640GB review

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Verdict:

The 640GB Scorpio Blue is ideal if you want lots of storage in your laptop, but 500GB drives are better value.

Review Date: 17 Nov 2009

Price when reviewed: £95

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Reviewed By: Alan Lu

Our Rating 5 stars out of 5

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Western Digital's latest 2.5in internal SATA hard disk has a huge capacity of 640GB. Although 750GB and 1TB models are available, these are too thick to fit in many laptops, unlike the 640GB Scorpio Blue.

The Scorpio wrote large files at 58.8MB/s and read them at 79.3MB/s, making it one of the fastest laptop hard disks we've seen. It was also quick reading small files at 73.8MB/s but a little sluggish writing them, managing only 38.7MB/s. The Scorpio didn't improve the battery life of our test laptop, but at least it didn't reduce it either.

At 15p per gigabyte, the Scorpio is a good pick if you need lots of storage for your laptop. If you don't need that much storage, the 500GB version of the Scorpio Blue is a good alternative. It costs just £60, or around 12p per gigabyte, and performed similarly; it was even 10MB/s faster when writing small files.

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