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It's Fast

It's faster than 4200 RPM drives. WD Scorpio spins at 5400 RPM, delivering performance that is 25% faster than traditional 4200 RPM drives. It's faster than 5400 RPM drives. Among competitive 5400 RPM drives WD Scorpio is a clear performance leader.

FAST BOOT UP
Fast hard drive performance means faster boot up and faster application performance.
WD Scorpio delivers best-in-class cold boot times.

FAST DATA DELIVERY
WinBench 99 is a subsystem-level benchmark that measures the performance of a PC's graphics, hard drive, and video subsystems in a Windows environment. Lower values indicate faster boot times.

MobileMark™2002 is a notebook computer benchmark program for mobile computers running Windows XP and Windows 2000. MobileMark2002 measures system performance while the battery is discharging, and benchmark reports both a performance and battery run time score. Higher values indicate better performance.

in this example, run on the Compaq R3000, WD Scorpio
80 GB, 2 MB and 8 MB cache, outperforms the competitors
80 GB 5400 RPM, 8 MB and 16 MB drives.

 




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