Western Digital WD5000BEVT 500GB 2.5" Hard Drive SATAII 5400rpm 8MB Cache - OEM Scorpio Blue
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Manufacturer ID: WD5000BEVT
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Western Digital WD5000BEVT 500GB 2.5" Hard Product Description
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 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.
Western Digital WD5000BEVT 500GB 2.5" Hard Product Reviews
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Excellent For PS3
operating system:Not ApplicableOrdered on free delivery, 2 days in my hand (excellent Ebuyer).
Fitted straight in, ps3 formatted the drive no problem.
Restored backup that I had done before changing my 40gb for this one again no problem.
All in all really impressed.
Thanks Ebuyer for great service once again.
500GB PS3
operating system:Not ApplicableUsual excellent delivery from Ebuyer
took 3 mins to install into my ps3 and over 30 hours to do full format :(
works perfect in a ps3
operating system:Windows XPbought this just put straight in the ps3 it formatted it and works fine some 465 gb free no probs
Capacity of 500Gb hard drive
operating system:Windows XPI bought this drive for my sons PS3 going from a 60Gb drive up to 500Gb.
With his 60Gb drive he had used around 40Gb so after I had backed it up and restored it on to the 500Gb drive, I was expecting around 420Gb free however the PS3 reported 373 / 465Gb.
I know all about the way drives are worked out with the capacity so was expecting from the 500Gb drive:
465Gb available space
40Gb from the previous back up
425Gb free.
However the PS3 was saying I now had:
465Gb after formatting
373Gb left after restoring from previous back up.
So in effect it was now using 92Gb from my previous back up yet my previous drive was only 60Gb!!!
I couldn't get my head around it at all and formatted it again and reloaded but it was exactly the same.
So I searched the net and have found that out of a 500Gb drive, 465Gb is available (which is correct and would be the same on windows) but the PS3 also makes a % available for its operating system and other things which on a 500Gb drive is around 52Gb.
I found this reply from a user who contacted Sony direct asking about the issue:
"The percentage of space that is allocated for system administration varies from model to model and is between 16% and 20% of the hard drive space. This space is reserved for system administration functions and for future updates or developments. This space is not reserved for "Other OS" functions."
Most folk are reporting 413Gb/465Gb from their PS3 after doing a clean install with a 500Gb drive.
I hope this helps others who were wondering where the extra Gb was going.
Technical Specification
Manufacturer ID: WD5000BEVT
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 | 500 GB |
| Interface Type | Serial ATA-300 |
| Buffer Size | 8 MB |
| Features | Shock Guard, WhisperDrive, SecurePark |
| Compliant Standards | S.M.A.R.T. |
Performance | |
| Drive Transfer Rate | 300 MBps (external) / 97 MBps (internal) |
| 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 Serial ATA-300 - 7 pin Serial ATA |
| Compatible Bays | 1 x internal - 2.5" x 1/8H |
Miscellaneous | |
| Compliant Standards | RoHS |
Manufacturer Warranty | |
| Service & Support | 3 years warranty |
| Service & Support Details | Limited warranty - 3 years |
Environmental Parameters | |
| Min Operating Temperature | 0 °C |
| Max Operating Temperature | 60 °C |
| Humidity Range Operating | 8 - 90% |
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