- due to less head wear, and improved non-operational shock tolerance.
- Fast and efficient - With 5400 RPM spin speed and 12 ms access time and up to 3 Gb/s SATA interface speed, even the most demanding customer will appreciate the performance achieved by WD Scorpio Blue drives.
- Tested for compatibility - We perform tests on hundreds of systems and a multitude of platforms in our FIT Lab and mobile compatibility lab to give our customers confidence that our drives will work in their systems.
- Ideal for Portable digital devices of all kinds, including notebook computers, external storage, and digital media players.
- Portable digital devices of all kinds, including notebook computers, external storage, and digital media players.
- In a notebook drive, silence is golden. WD’s exclusive whisper drive combines state-of-the-art seeking algorithms to yield one of the quietest 2.5-inch hard drives on the market.
- WD Scorpio Blue SATA drives are available in capacities up to 500 GB and offer the most available capacity for space-hungry operating systems, like Window Vista, with plenty of room left over for photos, music, and video.
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| Performance Specifications | | | Rotational Speed | 5,400 RPM (nominal) | | Buffer Size | 8 MB | | Average Latency | 5.50 ms (nominal) | | Seek Times | | | Read Seek Time | 12.0 ms | | Track-To-Track Seek Time | 2.0 ms (average) | | Transfer Rates | | | Buffer To Host (Serial ATA) | 3 Gb/s (Max) | | Physical Specifications | | | Formatted Capacity | 500,107 MB | | Capacity | 500 GB | | Interface | SATA 3 Gb/s | | User Sectors Per Drive | 976773168 | | Physical Dimensions | | | English | | | Height | 0.374 Inches ±0.008 inch | | Length | 3.94 Inches ±0.010 inch | | Width | 2.75 ±0.010 inch | | Weight | 0.26 Pounds | | Metric | | | Height | 9.5 mm ±0.20 mm | | Length | 100.2 ±0.25 mm | | Width | 69.85 ±0.25 mm | | Weight | 0.117 kg | | Environmental Specifications | | | Acoustics | | | Idle Mode | 24 dBA (average) | | Seek Mode 0 | 26 dBA (average) | | Temperature (English) | | | Operating | 32° F to 140° F | | Non-operating | -40° F to 149° F | | Temperature (Metric) | | | Operating | -0° C to 60° C | | Non-operating | -40° C to 65° C | | Humidity | | | Operating | 8-90% RH non-condensing | | Non-operating | 5-95% RH non-condensing | | Altitude (English) | | | Operating | -1,000 feet to 10,000 feet | | Non-operating | -1,000 feet to 40,000 feet | | Altitude (Metric) | | | Operating | -305M to 3,050M | | Non-operating | -305M to 12,200M | | Vibration | | | Operating | 0.00459 g²/Hz (10 to 500 Hz) | | Non-operating | 0.05102 g²/Hz (10 to 500 Hz) | | Electrical Specifications | | | Current Requirements | | | 5 VDC | | | Read/Write | 500 mA | | Idle | 400 mA | | Standby | 50 mA | | Sleep | 20 mA | | Power Dissipation | | | Read/Write | 2.50 Watts | | Idle | 0.85 Watts | | Standby | 0.25 Watts | | Sleep | 0.10 Watts | |
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