WD Scorpio Blue 2.5-inch SATA and PATA hard drives offer solid-performance, ultra-quiet operation and low-power use for portable digital devices of all kinds. Pick the drive that suits your needs with the confidence in knowing that all WD Scorpio Blue drives are built to the highest standards of quality and reliability.

Low power consumption.

State-of-the-art seeking algorithms optimize the way the drive seeks for data, which significantly improves power consumption.

Ultra cool and quiet

In a notebook drive, silence is golden. WD’s exclusive WhisperDrive™ technology delivers one of the quietest 2.5-inch hard drives on the market.

Additional Features

• Rugged: WD's ShockGuard™ technology protects the drive mechanics and platter surfaces from shocks.
• Advanced Format (AF): Technology adopted by WD and other drive manufacturers to increase media format efficiencies, thus enabling larger drive capacities.

Technical Specifications:

Specifications

• Interface: SATA 3 Gb/s
• Form factor: 2.5-inch
• Advanced Format (AF): Yes

Performance

• Data transfer rate (max): Buffer to host: 3 Gb/s, Host to/from drive (sustained): 144 MB/s
• Cache (MB): 8
• Rotational speed (RPM): 5400 RPM Class

Reliability/Data Integrity

• Load/unload cycles: 600,000

Power Management

• Average power requirements (W): Read/Write: 0.75, Idle: 9.6, Standby/Sleep: 0.2

Physical Dimensions

• Height: 12.50 mm
• Length: 100.20 mm
• Width: 69.85 mm
• Weight: 0.15 kg