WD Scorpio Blue 1TB Notebook Hard Drive Review

SiSoftware Sandra 2011 SP4a

SiSoftware Sandra (the System ANalyser, Diagnostic and Reporting Assistant) is an information & diagnostic utility. Sandra provides most of the information (including undocumented) you need to know about your hardware, software and other devices whether hardware or software. In order to test the hard drive, SiSoftware Sandra 2010c was used as part of the test suite. The graphical results that Sandra gives you after the test is completed nicely shows how drives perform over time and where on the drive the performance is seen.

READ Performance Testing

Western Digital Scorpio Blue 1TB:

WRITE Performance Testing

Western Digital Scorpio Blue 1TB:

Benchmark Results: The Western Digital Scorpio Blue 1TBB HDD has solid performance in Sandra 2011 and was found to have an average read score of 89MB/s with a write score of 90MB/s. The read and write access times also looked good, at 12.51ms read and 8.46ms write.

Benchmark Results: The Western Digital Scorpio Blue 1TB HDD was only about 11MB/s behind the Scorpio Black 750GB, which is impressive for a blue series drive with some major capacity!