WD Western Digital Scorpio Blue 500GB 2.5" External HDD

The latest Western Digital WD Scorpio Blue series 500GB 2.5" inch HDD with external Pink Casing! NEW with full warranty. 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. 500 GB, 3 Gb/s, 8 MB Cache, 5400 RPM 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. Massive capacity - Whether they are in an external drive or a notebook computer, 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.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. Up to 142,000 digital photosUp to 125,000 songs (MP3)Up to 12,000 songs (uncompressed CD quality)Up to 38 hours of Digital Video (DV)Up to 220 hours of DVD quality videoUp to 60 hours of HD video Mouse over each item to see how it was calculated. (Examples of the number of photos, songs, videos and any other files that can be stored on a hard drive are provided for illustrative purposes only. Your results will vary based on file size and format, settings, features, software and other factors.)One gigabyte (GB) = one billion bytes. One terabyte (TB) = one trillion bytes. Total accessible capacity varies depending on operating environment. Performance SpecificationsRotational Speed5,400 RPM (nominal)Buffer Size8 MBAverage Latency5.50 ms (nominal)Seek TimesRead Seek Time12.0 msTrack-To-Track Seek Time2.0 ms (average)Transfer RatesBuffer To Host (Serial ATA)3 Gb/s (Max)Physical SpecificationsFormatted Capacity500,107 MBCapacity500 GBInterfaceSATA 3 Gb/sUser Sectors Per Drive976,773,168Physical DimensionsEnglishHeight0.374 Inches ±0.008 inchLength3.94 Inches ±0.010 inchWidth2.75 ±0.010 inchWeight0.26 PoundsMetricHeight9.5 mm ±0.20 mmLength100.2 ±0.25 mmWidth69.85 ±0.25 mmWeight0.117 kgEnvironmental SpecificationsAcousticsIdle Mode24 dBA (average)Seek Mode 026 dBA (average)Temperature (English)Operating32° F to 140° FNon-operating-40° F to 149° FTemperature (Metric)Operating-0° C to 60° CNon-operating-40° C to 65° CHumidityOperating8-90% RH non-condensingNon-operating5-95% RH non-condensingAltitude (English)Operating-1,000 feet to 10,000 feetNon-operating-1,000 feet to 40,000 feetAltitude (Metric)Operating-305M to 3,050MNon-operating-305M to 12,200MVibrationOperating0.00459 g²/Hz (10 to 500 Hz)Non-operating0.05102 g²/Hz (10 to 500 Hz)Electrical SpecificationsCurrent Requirements5 VDCRead/Write500 mAIdle400 mAStandby50 mASleep20 mAPower DissipationRead/Write2.50 WattsIdle0.85 WattsStandby0.25 WattsSleep0.10 WattsAs used for storage capacity, one megabyte (MB) = one million bytes, one gigabyte (GB) = one billion bytes, and one terabyte (TB) = one trillion bytes. Total accessible capacity varies depending on operating environment. As used for buffer or cache, one megabyte (MB) = 1,048,576 bytes. As used for transfer rate or interface, megabyte per second (MB/s) = one million bytes per second, megabit per second (Mb/s) = one million bits per second, and gigabit per second (Gb/s) = one billion bits per second.