WD Blue 250 GB Mobile Hard Drive: 2.5 Inch, 5400 RPM, SATA II, 8 MB Cache - WD2500BPVT

Product Description Western Digital Scorpio Blue 250GB (WD2500BPVT) 5400rpm SATA2 8MB Notebook Hard Drive (2.5 inch) Compatible with: laptop From the Manufacturer WD Blue Mobile Hard Drives – Solid performance and reliability for everyday computing. The original. WD Blue drives are designed and manufactured with the proven technology found in WD's original award-winning desktop hard drives. WD quality. Built to the highest standards of quality and reliability, these drives offer the features and capacity ideal for your everyday computing needs. More options. These drives are available in a broad range of capacities, cache sizes and interfaces so you can be sure there's a drive that's the perfect fit for your system, in more ways than one. Product FeaturesLow power consumption - State-of-the-art seeking algorithms and advanced power management features ensure low power consumption and long battery life.NoTouch Ramp Load technology - The recording head never touches the disk media ensuring significantly less wear to the recording head and media as well as better drive protection in transit.SATA or PATA interface - While SATA has become the industry standard interface, WD continues to manufacture mobile drives with a PATA interface for unique or legacy systems.Tested for compatibility - We perform tests on hundreds of systems and a multitude of platforms in our FIT Lab to give our customers confidence that our drives will work in their systems.The WD advantage - WD puts our products through extensive Functional Integrity Testing (F.I.T.) prior to any product launch. On average, each new product goes through 600,000 hours of testing. WD also has a detailed Knowledge Base with more than 1,000 helpful articles. You can also call toll-free support 7 days per week in the U.S. and Canada. See the WD Support site for full details.Upgrading your drive is easy - WD Acronis TrueImage, available as a free download on the WD Support site, enables you to copy all your data to a new drive so you don't have to reinstall your operating system to get all the benefits of a new drive. WD-certified packaging - All WD drives purchased from Amazon.com are shipped in WD-certified hard drive packaging. It is designed and fully tested to provide WD products with the highest of safety while in transit. With WD-certified packaging, you can rest assured that your WD hard drive will arrive safely, fully protected, in a non-descript, easy-open package.Compatibility Works with Windows 7/Vista/XP/2000, Mac and Linux operating systems.Recommended use - WD Blue hard drives are tested and recommended for use in PCs, industrial applications, notebooks, netbooks and external enclosures.Ideal for:Notebook computingSmall form factor external enclosures Netbooks Features at a glance80 GB - 1 TB capacity SATA 3 Gb/s or PATA 100 MB/s5400 RPM You might also consider:

• Capacity: 250 GB Rotational Speed: 5400 rpm
• Cache: 8 MB Interface: SATA 3 Gb/s
• Data transfer rate(Max)Buffer to host: 3 Gb/s Host to/from drive(sustained): 116 MB/s
• Average latency: 5.5 ms Electrical Specifications:5VDC ?¡À10% (A, peak): 1.0 Power Dissipation: Read/Write - 2.5 W; Idle - 0.85 W; Standby - 0.2 W; Sleep - 0.2 W
• Shock: Operating: 350G @ 2ms(read) Non-operating: 1000G @ 2ms ROHS Compliant