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Home > Storage & Floppy > Laptop Hard Drives > SATA > 400GB-800GB > Western Digital Scorpio Blue WD5000BEVT 500GB 5400 RPM 8MB Cache 2.5" SATA 3.0Gb/s Internal Notebook Hard Drive

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Western Digital Scorpio Blue WD5000BEVT 500GB 5400 RPM 8MB Cache 2.5" SATA 3.0Gb/s Internal Notebook Hard Drive

With available SATA or EIDE interfaces, WD Scorpio Blue drives offer high-performance, low power consumption, and cool operation, perfect for notebooks and other portable devices. Pick the drive that suits your needs with the confidence in knowing that all WD Scorpio Blue drives are built to the highest standards of quality and reliability.

General Specifications
  • Interface: SATA 3 Gb/s
  • Capacity: 500 GB

    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: 976,773,168

    English Dimensions
  • 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 Dimensions
  • 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)

    Current Requirements - 5 VDC
  • Read/Write: 500 mA
  • Idle: 400 mA
  • Standby: 50 mA
  • Sleep: 20 mA

    Current Requirements - Power Dissipation
  • Read/Write: 2.50 Watts
  • Idle: 0.85 Watts
  • Standby: 0.25 Watts
  • Sleep: 0.10 Watts



    Availability: Usually in stock.

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    Item # LT-HD-WD-SA-500-5400Regular price: $119.99Sale price: $109.99
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