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Long ago, in the reign of the Roman Empire and the grandeur of its golden appearance of Carthage, «scorpions» called combat vehicles designed to send poison arrows through the high walls of the besieged town Riga today named a dangerous animal company called Western Digital hard drive of its series, in among which there are 2.5-inch HDD.

Came to us on the test is hard for «extreme» laptops and compact desktops, as two of his «pancakes» rotate at a speed, not the traditional «Scratch Pad» drives – 7200 rpm. The producers claim that the hard disk consumes the same amount of energy, like his counterparts over the brakes. Plus, we promise to silence and heightened «persistence». In the test device proved to be excellent: the search for the data required an average of 4.2 ms, the transition from track to track was carried out for 2 ms, and the average waiting time was only 4 ms. Yes, and it really heats less than the normal hard disk. Due to the small weight «Scorpion» (total 99 g) I had the idea to turn it into an external drive, hiding in a box with a universal interface. What? Good speed, large capacity – wear it with him to the breast pocket of movies and music, so rejoice.

«Scorpion» fully justified its name: it is as ancient military weapon, which results in good «rate of» and may well make competitors were poisoned – not poison, as his own envy.

* Device: WD Scorpio Black 320 Gb SATA (WD3200BJKT)
* Type: Hard Drive
* Capacity: 320 GB
* Cache: 16 MB
* Form Factor: 2.5 “

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