Western Digital WD2500BEVE 250GB 2.5" Hard Drive ATA100 5400rpm 8MB Cache - OEM Scorpio Blue
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Manufacturer ID: WD2500BEVE
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Product Description
- Huge capacity - Whether they are in an external drive or a notebook computer, WD Scorpio Blue ATA100 drives are available in capacities up to 320 GB and offer the most available capacity for space-hungry operating systems, like Windows Vista®, with plenty of room left over for photos, music, and video.
- Fast and efficient - With 5400 RPM spin speed and 12 ms access time even the most demanding customer will appreciate the performance achieved by WD Scorpio Blue drives.
- 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.
- 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.
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Perfect for Aluminium PowerBook G4
operating system:Mac OSXBought it for my PB G4 as a replacement for 80GB Toshiba IDE hard drive.
First of all, a word of praise for eBuyer stuff who proved very efficient in processing my order.
A word of warning - if you intend on putting it in yourself - it can be a bit tricky. Luckily, there is a full set of instructions with photographs on iFixIt. Once replaced, I had to partition it with Disk Utility and away I went, installing Tiger. Working absolutely great, much better than Toshiba - faster and quieter at the same time.
Overall am very pleased with my purchase. Price is very competitive too - I paid bp77 in January, still the lowest I could find.
Best Hard drive maker to date!
operating system:Not ApplicableThe amount of time I have used western digital drives going on 8 years now, they have never let me down once I still have the Caviar 40GB the drive is around 8 years old and been in 2 diffrent PC's and still going strong in my old Mesh AMD machine that I have since given to my younger brother, Western Digital drives are the most reliable brand to date, I would recommend 250/500GB models for IDE or otherwise for SATA I would recommend Western Digital Raptor drives.
Brill
Great hard-drive with a great price, hav'nt seen one this big at this price, would recomend, runs alot better than the toshiba 80GB one Used to have. Makes my Intel Celeron M Proscssor run like an intel core duo (when i put in the ebuyers own 1gb ram). Is a little fidily to install but fits in the end, (I put it in an acer Aspire 3669).
What an incredible buy!
Works fine in a 15" Powerbook!
operating system:Mac OSXI bought this drive to install into my 15" 1.5Ghz Powerbook to give it a little bit more life.
I can confirm that it works perfectly, and is very quiet. I found a install guide on ifixit.com
I also bought this caddy -> http://www.ebuyer.com/product/118506 to put my old powerbook hard drive in. Just so everyone knows, this drive draws a little bit too much power to be powered by Firewire/USB Alone in this enclosure. Needs the power also (cable supplied). Tested with the built in hard drive, and this wonderful WD 250gb jobby.
As always prompt delivery service from ebuyer.
Technical Specification
Manufacturer ID: WD2500BEVE
General | |
|---|---|
| Device Type | Hard drive - internal |
| Width | 7 cm |
| Depth | 10 cm |
| Height | 9.5 mm |
| Weight | 117 g |
Hard Drive | |
| Form Factor | 2.5" x 1/8H |
| Capacity | 250 GB |
| Interface Type | ATA-100 |
| Buffer Size | 8 MB |
| Features | Shock Guard, WhisperDrive, DuraStep Ramp |
| Compliant Standards | S.M.A.R.T. |
Performance | |
| Drive Transfer Rate | 100 MBps (external) |
| Seek Time | 12 ms (average) / 21 ms (max) |
| Track-to-Track Seek Time | 2 ms |
| Average Latency | 5.5 ms |
| Spindle Speed | 5400 rpm |
Reliability | |
| Non-Recoverable Errors | 1 per 10^14 |
| Start / Stop Cycles | 600,000 |
Expansion / Connectivity | |
| Interfaces | 1 x ATA-100 - 44 PIN IDC |
| Compatible Bays | 1 x internal - 2.5" x 1/8H |
Miscellaneous | |
| Works with Windows Vista | Software and devices that carry the Works with Windows Vista logo have been tested for baseline compatibility with PC's running. |
| Compliant Standards | RoHS |
Manufacturer Warranty | |
| Service & Support | 3 years warranty |
| Service & Support Details | Limited warranty - 3 years |
Environmental Parameters | |
| Min Operating Temperature | 5 °C |
| Max Operating Temperature | 60 °C |
| Humidity Range Operating | 8 - 90% |
| Shock Tolerance | 250 g @ 2ms (operating) / 900 g @ 1ms (non-operating) |
| Vibration Tolerance | 1 g @ 5-300 Hz (operating) |
| Sound Emission | 22 dBA |
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Tuesday, 7th February
