Western Digital WD6400BPVT 640GB 2.5" Hard Drive SATAII 5400rpm 8MB Cache - OEM Scorpio Blue
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Manufacturer ID: WD6400BPVT
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Western Digital WD6400BPVT 640GB 2.5" Hard Drive SATAII 5400rpm 8MB…
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Same speed as my 320Gbyte
operating system:Windows VistaA 9.5mm regular laptop drive able to store 640Gbytes. Excellent capacity, good speed, no noise, no vibration, no heat. 5 star product.
This drive is advance format, if you clone your old hard drive you need to run WD align program. If you clone your old 512K sector drive without aligning it this drive will be very slow at writing data, probably less than 10Mbps, if you follow the instructions provided by Western Digital, you will get normal performance of read 60-80Mpbs and Write 50 - 70Mbps.
This is good as a second Hard Drive in a 2.5 Inch Caddy for Backup or Additional Space.
operating system:Windows 7Ok first things first. This offers a lot of capacity in small form factor so dont knock it, buttt do not even attemtp to buy this hard drive assuming thta it will be a substitute for your laptops current hard drive if you are expecting performance and loads of hard drive space.
This is where this hard drive struggles BADLY !
At 5400 RPM and 8MB Cash it hates Windows 7, and disk defrragmentation can take almost an hour.
My Machine is Quad Core Laptop with 8 GIGS of RAM so trust me when I Say that the Hard Drive is slowwwww.
However if lugging around more space is your thing (this is what I did with mine after it failed as a Laptop Hard Drive), pop this baby in a caddy and load it up with all your stuff for extra MEGA SPACE.
Reliable WD Quality... But slow.
operating system:Windows 7I purchased this latest incarnation of the Western Digital Blue, hoping that it would provide a useful upgrade from my existing 500gb of storage space. Currently running a WD5000BEVT - the well-established 500 gigabyte drive that so many folk seem to install to their PlayStations.
Anyway, despite perfoming a clean install (and therefore checking that their were no 'partition alignment' issues) I have to say that I found this drive to run very slowly indeed. Don't get me wrong - it seems to do OK in the benchmarks (well, in the built-in 'Aero' Windows 7 Performance test, at least) - with a score of 5.8.
But in terms of actual real-life useability, it seems MUCH slower than the WD5000BEVT that it replaced. It took several HOURS to do a clean Win7 install. Maybe it's to do with the Advanced Format structure, or perhaps there's another reason. Whatever that reason may be, I've found myself sticking with the cheaper, faster 500GB drive.
Incidentally, I did check the alignment of this new drive, using the suggested WD utility (see. www.wdc.com/advformat). All partitions showed as properly aligned, and yet the performance was still very poor.
im not so surw
i know all the reviews say this drive is very slow, but when i built my current computer, the first windows install took along time, so it may just need some time
Technical Specification
Manufacturer ID: WD6400BPVT
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 | 640 GB |
| Interface Type | Serial ATA-300 |
| Buffer Size | 8 MB |
| Features | Shock Guard, WhisperDrive, SecurePark, Advanced Format technology |
Performance | |
| Drive Transfer Rate | 300 MBps (external) |
| Internal Data Rate | 106 MBps |
| 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 - 95% |
| Shock Tolerance | 350 g @ 2ms (operating) / 1000 g @ 2ms (non-operating) |
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