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Western Digital
Western Digital WD5000BEVT 500GB 2.5" Hard Drive SATAII 5400rpm 8MB Cache - OEM Scorpio Blue
- quickfind code: 150515
- manufacturer #: WD5000BEVT
Buying Information
40 in stock for next day delivery
Wednesday, 10th February
22 reviewsOverview
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.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.
Specification
Product Specifications
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% |
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
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.
Upgrade
operating system:
Windows VistaBought this for my HP DV2000 laptop to replace the original 250GB drive. So far so good and lots more room to record junk from the TV! Very pleased with it.
Excellent
operating system:
Mac OSXOrdered this little HDD as an upgrade for my MacBook Pro 15" Late 2008 Unibody model. Really easy to install, formatted and up and running in a few minutes. I used Time Machine to restore my old system from a backup and was up and running after a few hours of copying data. Performance is a little better than the stock drive from Apple, and it is nice and quiet. Now I have lots more free space! Don't buy a big drive from Apple when you get a machine from them - do it yourself and save a fortune. Simples!
PS3 Drive
operating system:
OtherDecided to swap out my PS3 40gb for this one and it works a dream.
I then went out and traded in my 40gb machine for a new "Slim" PS3 and it works in that as well.
Is a truly simple upgrade and a great drive for the price.
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.
Replacement HD for my Laptop
operating system:
Windows VistaPurchased to upgrade my HP Pavillion 9000dv Laptop delivered in 2 days even though I chose free supersaver delivery. Quiet unit, a good buy, would certainly purchase again.
Excellent in a MacBook
operating system:
Mac OSXThis was my second hard drive upgrade for a white Macbook and the process is very simple. This is an excellent replacement drive - job was complete in 10-15 mins.
Unfortunately the drive is making clicking noises but only after I dropped my Macbook 3 feet onto a solid wood floor. It still works but I suspect for not much longer. I'm going to buy another one of these drives to replace it
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