Nowadays, it’s hard to shake the urge to pop an outstanding state drive into your next laptop, but in spite of the fact that you’re down with dropping the requisite coin, the restrictive capacity choices may make it darn near impossible for pack rats to bite. For those fitting squarely into that category, there’s Western Digital’s newest laptop drive: the 9.5mm 1TB Scorpio Blue . It’s one of the crucial first on this form factor (read: the person who slips into most everything smaller than a Clevo) to hit the 1TB milestone, and at just $99, it is a veritable bargain. The benchmarking gurus over at Hot Hardware threw it in the course of the usual gauntlet of tests, pitting it against a 500GB Scorpio Black and a 640GB Seagate Momentus. As you’d likely expect, the 1TB spinner bested the contest in SiSoftware, ATTO and CrystalDiskMark tests, though not by an important margin. Still, taking performance up a notch while also boasting an entire terabyte of space makes it somewhat of a no-brainer for capacity freaks, and you’ll hit the source for a barrage of charts proving as much.
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