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WD Scorpio Black vs Hitachi Travelstar 7k500

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Compman55

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Looking at 500GB models in the scorpio black, and the travelstar. I know the hitachi is more experianced in laptop drives, but performance & reliabilty which is better?
 
Compman55 said:
Looking at 500GB models in the scorpio black, and the travelstar. I know the hitachi is more experianced in laptop drives, but performance & reliabilty which is better?
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I trust Hitachi more than WD with the drives that I purchased from both companies over the years. It is true that the Scorpio Black drives are faster though. 🙂
 
WDC Scorpio Blacks are very reliable, and definitely better performers.
 
Performance-wise, it is necessary to confirm the specific model number (example in bold WD5000BEKT-XXXXXXX) in user benchmarks otherwise you can end up with a Black that is only equivalent to a Blue if that is higher density (thus overcoming lower RPM) and yet effectively pay a premium per GB for it. The depletion of older inventory and the transition to higher density across all/i] production lines of even the same model name can take a long time. Unfortunately, this makes mail-order a crap shoot as the specific model is not specified (akin to a CPU stepping). I don't know if there is such variance in current 500GB models.
 
Fair enough. I have pair of WD320BEKT-22F320. These are my laptop data drives - not OS drives. They used to be the OS drives. 🙂
 
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