Western Digital Scorpio Blue WD1200BEVE User manual

WD Scorpio Blue
Interface
Width/Height
Rotational Speed
Capacities
Model Numbers
EIDE Drives
WD2500BEVE
WD1600BEVE
WD1200BEVE
WD800BEVE
WD600BEVE
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.
Product Features
Massive capacity — Whether they are in an external drive or a notebook computer,
320 GB WD Scorpio Blue 2.5-inch drives offer the most available capacity for
space-hungry operating systems like Windows Vista™, plus 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, 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.
WD Scorpio Blue is part of WD's complete lineup of mobile hard drives.
WD Scorpio® Blue
Mobile Hard Drives
Big capacity for
performance computing
SATA or EIDE
2.75 in./0.37 in.
69.85 mm/9.5 mm
Note: Not all products may
be available in all regions of
the world.
40 to 320 GB
5400 RPM
SATA Drives
WD3200BEVT
WD2500BEVS
WD1600BEVS
WD1200BEVS
WD800BEVS
WD600BEVS
WD400BEVS
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WD Scorpio Blue
Drive Specifications
Performance Specifications
Limited Warranty6
40 GB 60 GB 80 GB 120 GB 160 GB 250 GB 320 GB
Formatted capacity140,020 MB 60,022 MB 80,026 MB 120,034 MB 160,041 MB 250,059 MB 320,072 MB
User sectors per drive 78,140,160 117,210,240 156,301,488 234,441,648 312,581,808 488,397,168 625,142,448
WD model number
SATA WD400BEVS WD600BEVS WD800BEVS WD1200BEVS WD1600BEVS WD2500BEVS WD3200BEVT
EIDE WD600BEVE WD800BEVE WD1200BEVE WD1600BEVE WD2500BEVE
SATA Hard Drives
Bytes per sector (STD) 512
Form factor 2.5-inch
Interface SATA 1.5 Gb/s
Interface (320 GB only) SATA 3 Gb/s
RoHS compliant2Yes
SATA Hard Drives
Average latency 5.5 ms
Cache
Read Adaptive
Write Yes
Data transfer rate
Buffer to disk 933 Mbits/s(maximum)3
Buffer to host 1.5 Gb/s (maximum)
Buffer to host (320 GB only) 3 Gb/s (maximum)
Drive ready time 4.0 sec (average)
Error rate (non-recoverable) <1 in 1014 bits read
Rotational speed 5400 RPM
Load/unload cycles5600,000
Limited warranty 3 years
EIDE Hard Drives
Bytes per sector (STD) 512
Form factor 2.5-inch
Interface 44-pin EIDE
RoHS compliant2Yes
EIDE Hard Drives
Average latency 5.5 ms
Cache
Read Adaptive
Write Yes
Data transfer rate (buffer to host)
Mode 5 Ultra ATA4100 MB/s
Mode 4 Ultra ATA466.6 MB/s
Mode 2 Ultra ATA433.3 MB/s
Mode 2 Ultra DMA416.6 MB/s
Mode 4 Ultra PIO416.6 MB/s
Buffer to disk 600 Mbits/s (maximum)
Drive ready time 4.0 sec (average)
Error rate (non-recoverable) <1 in 1014 bits read
Rotational speed 5400 RPM
Load/unload cycles5600,000
For service and literature:
support.wdc.com
www.westerndigital.com
Western Digital, WD, the WD logo, and
WD Scorpio are registered trademarks; in
the U.S. and other countries; and
WD Scorpio Blue, SecurePark, FIT Lab,
ShockGuard, and WhisperDrive are
trademarks of Western Digital
Technologies, Inc. Other marks may be
mentioned herein that belong to other
companies. Product specifications subject
to change without notice.
© 2008 Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
All rights reserved.
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WD Scorpio Blue
Mobile Hard Drives
1One gigabyte (GB) = 1,000,000,000 bytes. Total accessible capacity varies depending on operating environment.
2WD complies with the Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) Directive 2002/95/EC of the European Parliament, which is
effective in the EU beginning July 1, 2006. RoHS aims to protect human health and the environment by restricting the use of certain
hazardous substances in new equipment, and consists of restrictions on lead, mercury, cadmium, and other substances.
3Buffer to disk transfer rate for ML160 WDxxxxBEVS drives. WDxxxxBEVS ML125 drives have a buffer to disk transfer rate of 850 Mbits/
s max. ML80 WDxxxxBEVS/BEVE drives have a buffer to disk transfer rate of 600 Mbits/s max.
4Maximum burst rate running the specified PIO, DMA, or Ultra ATA transfer mode.
5Controlled unload at ambient condition.
6The term of the limited warranty may vary by region. Visit support.wdc.com/warranty for details.