Traditionally, desktop drives (3.5-inch) have always been the ones to have larger capacities over notebook drives (2.5-inch) due to the physical size. That changed just a few months ago with the introduction of the Western Digital 250GB Scorpio.

Running at 5400RPM, it isn’t the fastest (compared to a 7200RPM), but certainly the largest we’ve seen to date. The 250GB Scorpio is a SATA 1.5Gbps interface drive and has an 8MB cache. Western Digital offers a 3-year warranty on this drive (and on all Scorpio drives).

We tested the Scorpio inside of a MacBook notebook computer from Apple with a 2.0GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, and used XBench for testing. We compared it with the stock Toshiba MK1234GSX 120GB running at 5400RPM with a 8MB cache.

Overall, the Western Digital Scorpio was much faster than the stock Toshiba drive, and we can highly recommend the Western Digital Scorpio 250GB drive to those looking for capacity and speed. The 250GB model is available at Amazon for a little over $180.

Pros

• One of the largest notebook drives available today.
• Fast performance.
• Quiet and cool.
• 3-year warranty.

Cons

• None

Final Verdict
5 out of 5 stars

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