Western Digital

Western Digital WD1600BEVE 160GB 2.5" Hard Drive ATA100 5400rpm 8MB Cache - OEM Scorpio Blue

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  • manufacturer #: WD1600BEVE

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  • £51.99inc. vat

Overview

Product Description

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.
  • 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.

Specification

Product Specifications

General

Device TypeHard drive - internal
Width7 cm
Depth10 cm
Height9.5 mm
Weight117 g

Hard Drive

Form Factor2.5" x 1/8H
Capacity160 GB
Interface TypeATA-100
Buffer Size8 MB
FeaturesShock Guard, WhisperDrive, DuraStep Ramp
Compliant StandardsS.M.A.R.T.

Performance

Drive Transfer Rate100 MBps (external)
Seek Time12 ms (average)
Track-to-Track Seek Time2 ms
Average Latency5.5 ms
Spindle Speed5400 rpm

Reliability

Non-Recoverable Errors1 per 10^14

Expansion / Connectivity

Interfaces1 x ATA-100 - 44 PIN IDC
Compatible Bays1 x internal - 2.5" x 1/8H

Miscellaneous

Works with Windows VistaSoftware and devices that carry the Works with Windows Vista logo have been tested for baseline compatibility with PC's running.
Compliant StandardsRoHS

Manufacturer Warranty

Service & Support3 years warranty
Service & Support DetailsLimited warranty - 3 years

Environmental Parameters

Min Operating Temperature5 °C
Max Operating Temperature60 °C
Humidity Range Operating8 - 90%
Shock Tolerance250 g @ 2ms (operating) / 900 g @ 1ms (non-operating)
Vibration Tolerance1 g @ 5-300 Hz (operating)
Sound Emission20 dBA

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04/11/2009 Review:
Acer Travelmate Upgrade
review by: Anonymous rating:
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operating system: Windows 2000

Just installed one of these into an old (2004) travelmate. It replaced a 40Gb Hitachi drive. Its a much faster drive, needed to be seperately formatted in NTFS rather than the bundled system disks that wanted to use FAT32.

The disk is far quieter. Well worth the investment - just extended the life of the Acer by a couple of years at least.

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