2.5" Form FactorThe Western Digital Scorpio Blue internal hard drive is specifically designed for notebook computers equipped with 2.5" SATA drive bays.
SATA 3.0 Gb/s InterfaceThe 2.5” SATA internal notebook hard drive features the high performance SATA II interface supporting up to 3.0 Gb/s data transfer rates, Native Command Queuing (NCQ) and hot-pluggable point-to-point connections for optimum performance, efficiency, convenience and flexibility.
High Performance Hard DriveThis drive features a high performance 5400 RPM hard drive with a total capacity of 500GB so you can store your movies, music, applications and documents for easy sharing with your friends and even back up your system.
Advanced Format Technology (AF)Adopted by WD and other manufactures as one of multiple ways to continue growing hard drive capacity, the Advanced Format Technology (AF) is a more efficient media format that enables increased areal densities. (PVT models only)
Learn more about the Western Digital WD5000BPVT
Model
Brand
Western Digital
Series
Scorpio Blue
Model
WD5000BPVT
Packaging
Bare Drive
Performance
Interface
SATA 3.0Gb/s
Capacity
500GB
Cache
8MB
Average Latency
5.5ms
RPM
5400 RPM
Features
Features
Advanced Format Technology - Technology being adopted by WD and other drive manufacturers to increase media format efficiencies, thus enabling larger drive capacities.
Usage
For Daily Computing
Dimensions
Form Factor
2.5"
Height (maximum)
9.5mm
Width (maximum)
69.75mm
Length (maximum)
100.3mm
Additional Information
Date First Available
July 09, 2010
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