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80GB 2.5" Western DIgital Scorpio 5400RPM SATA Notebook Drive with 8MB Cache - New, 3 Year Warranty. (WDGWD800BEVS) Same Day $49.99
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Western Digital

WD Scorpio® Blue
Mobile Hard Drive
80 GB, 1.5 Gb/s, 8 MB Cache, 5400 RPM

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 gathered all our popular 5400 RPM WD Scorpio drives under one umbrella we call 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, 320 GB WD Scorpio Blue 2.5-inch drives offer the most available capacity for space-hungry operating systems like Windows Vista™, plus 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.
  • 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.


Specifications

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) 1.5 Gb/s (Max)
Buffer To Disk 600 Mbits/s (Max)
   
   
Physical Specifications
Formatted Capacity 80,026 MB
Capacity 80 GB
Interface SATA 1.5 Gb/s
   
   
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
Linear 20-300 Hz, 0.75 G (0 to peak)
Random 0.004 g²/Hz (10 to 300 Hz)
   
   
Electrical Specifications
Current Requirements
5 VDC
Read/Write 500 mA
Idle 420 mA
Standby 160 mA
Sleep 160 mA
   
Power Dissipation
Read/Write 8.40 Watts
Idle 7.8 Watts
Standby 1.00 Watts
Sleep 1.00 Watts
 
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