Description

Western Digital

500GB Scorpio Blue Hard Disk Drive

2.5-Inch | SATA 3.0Gb/s | 5400RPM | 8MB Cache

Big capacity for portable computing

With available SATA 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.

To make drive selection simple, we've Western Digital has gathered all their popular 5400 RPM WD Scorpio drives under one umbrella called WD Scorpio Blue. Built to Western Digital's awarding winning quality standards, these drives are available in a full range of performance features.

Key Features

Massive capacity - Whether they are in an external drive or a notebook computer, WD Scorpio Blue SATA drives are available in capacities up to 500GB and offer the most available capacity for space-hungry operating systems with plenty of room left over for photos, music, and video.

Quiet - In a notebook drive, silence is golden. WD's exclusive WhisperDrive™ combines state-of-the-art seeking algorithms to yield one of the quietest 2.5-inch hard drives on the market. These algorithms also optimize the way a drive seeks for data, which significantly improves power consumption. So now silence (and longer battery life) is golden.

Reliable and rugged - WD's ShockGuard™ technology protects the drive mechanics and platter surfaces from shocks. WD's SecurePark™ parks the recording heads off the disk surface during spin up, spin down, and when the drive is off. This ensures the recording head never touches the disk surface resulting in improved long-term reliability 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.

Advanced Format Technology - Technology being adopted by WD and other drive manufacturers to increase media format efficiencies, thus enabling larger drive capacities. (PVT models only)

Tested for compatibility - Western Digital performs tests on hundreds of systems and a multitude of platforms in their FIT Lab™ and Mobile Compatibility Lab to give customers confidence that their drives will work in customers' systems.

Specifications:

320GB Western Digital Scorpio Blue Specifications:

Specifications

Form Factor

2.5″ HDD

Interface

SATA 3Gb/s

Capacity¹

320GB

Formatted Capacity²

298GiB

Rotational Speed

5400 RPM

Cache / Data Buffer

8MB

Manufacturer Model Number

WD3200BPVT

Format

Unformatted

Physical

Height (max)

9.5mm (0.374″)

Width (max)

69.85mm (2.75″)

Length (max)

100.2mm (3.94″)

Weight (typical)

0.117kg (0.26 lbs.)

Guaranteed Sectors

1,465,149,168

Reliability³

Warranty

3 Year Western Digital Warranty

Performance

Transfer Rate (Max)

3.0 Gb/s

Track-to-track Seek

2.0ms

Average Seek Time

12.0ms

Average Latency

5.50ms

Power

Read Power

1.60 Watts

Write Power

1.60 Watts

Idle Mode

0.65 Watts

Standby Mode

0.20 Watts

Sleep Mode

0.20 Watts

Environmental (Operating)

Ambient Temperature (°F)

32°F to 140°F

Ambient Temperature (°C)

0°C to 60°C

Vibration

0.00459 g²/Hz (10 to 500 Hz)

Relative Humidity (non-condensing)

8% to 90%

Altitude

-1,000 feet to 10,000 feet

Environmental (Non-Operating)

Ambient Temperature (°F)

-40°F to 140°F

Ambient Temperature (°C)

-40°C to 65°C

Vibration

0.05102 g²/Hz (10 to 500 Hz)

Relative Humidity (non-condensing)

5% to 95%

Altitude

-1,000 feet to 40,000 feet

Acoustics

Idle (Typical)

2.2 bels

Seek (Typical)

2.5 bels

1GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes. Total accessible capacity varies depending upon operating environment (typically 5-10% less). The actual total capacity will depend on your own defined file settings/preferences.
In terms of standard gigabytes, 1GiB ≈ 1.074GB and refers to the actual formatted capacity of shown under Mac OS 10.5 or earlier and Microsoft Windows OS.
Specific application environments such as temperature and duty cycle will affect the overall reliability rates.

Manufacturer provided specifications for Western Digital p/n WD7500BPVT