Western Digital Scorpio Blue WD1600BEVE User manual

WD Scorpio®Blue™
2.5-inch Hard Drives
Massive Capacity
Low Power Consumption
Ultra-cool and Quiet
Ideal for portable digital devices
of all kinds including notebook
computers, external storage,
and digital media players.
Big Capacity for
Portable Computing.
WD Scorpio Blue 5400 RPM 2.5-inch SATA and EIDE hard
drives from Western Digital deliver lightning-fast and ultra-
quiet performance hand-in-hand with low power consumption.
In addition, these hard drives are designed with ruggedness,
reliability, and data-protection features that actively watch over
valuable data. Capacities range from 80 to 500 GB.
Massive capacity — Whether they are in an external drive or a
notebook computer, 500 GB WD Scorpio Blue 2.5-inch drives
offer the most available capacity for space-hungry operating
systems like Windows 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.
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WD Scorpio Blue

WD Scorpio Blue 2.5-inch Hard Drives
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© 2008 Western Digital Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved.
As used for storage capacity, one megabyte (MB) = one million bytes, one gigabyte (GB) = one billion bytes, and one terabyte (TB) = one trillion bytes. Total
accessible capacity varies depending on operating environment. As used for buffer or cache, one megabyte (MB) = 1,048,576 bytes. As used for transfer rate or
interface, megabyte per second (MB/s) = one million bytes per second, and gigabit per second (Gb/s) = one billion bites for second.
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WD Scorpio Blue
Key Specifications
Interface: SATA or EIDE
Form Factor: 2.5-inch
Spin Speed: 5400 RPM
Cache: 8 MB
Limited Warranty: 3-year
Capacities
80 GB —500 GB
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 WD
drives will work in their systems.
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Key Features
Capacities and Models
SATA 3 Gb/s SATA 1.5 Gb/s EIDE 100 MB/s
500 GB
400 GB
320 GB
250 GB
160 GB
120 GB
80 GB
WD5000BEVT
WD4000BEVT
WD3200BEVT
WD2500BEVT
WD1600BEVT
WD1200BEVT
WD800BEVT
WD2500BEVS
WD1600BEVS
WD1200BEVS
WD800BEVS
WD2500BEVE
WD1600BEVE
WD1200BEVE
WD800BEVE
WD Scorpio Blue is part of WD’s complete lineup of mobile hard drives.
WD Scorpio®Black™
Desktop-class performance for
notebook computers.
WD Scorpio®Blue™
Big capacity for
portable computing.