Packaging and The Scorpio Black

Our sample Scorpio Black came to us in OEM packaging, just like the drives currently for sale on Newegg. Notebook drives really don't need accessories like cables and instructions for notebook removal as they are generally found on your notebook manufacturers website.

Here we see the drive from the top; not much special about it since all of the goodies are on the inside.

The back side has an exposed circuit board like many 2.5 inch drives.

Most notebook drives are thinner than their 2.5 inch enterprise SAS counterparts. One of the drives we will be comparing the performance to is the new Hitachi 7K500, a full size 2.5 inch drive designed for the notebook but with little support from current notebook models.