Thread: Western Digital Scorpio Blue WD5000BEVT hard drive

More is not 500 GB Western Digital packed into its 2.5-inch drive Scorpio Blue WD5000BEVT. This irritates the manufacturer currently maximum data density within the 2.5-inch from the class. In addition to the SATA/300-disk economical power to deal with. According to Western Digital is the consumption at idle at 0.85 and 2.5 watts during access - these are ordinary values for a notebook drive.

A total of four read / write heads move across the two data disk of the WD5000BEVT. The rotational speed is 5400 revolutions per minute - the usual pace for 2.5-inch drives. The buffer memory of the Scorpio Blue model is 8 MB. This is typical in the 5400 class. Only the latest models from Samsung and Seagate, which operate at 7,200 revolutions per minute, the producers pay twice as much buffer memory. The impact resistance of SATA/300-drive falls in the off state with 900 G compared to the competition a bit lower. This also applies to the 250 Gs of operating, the competition offers up to 400 G is usually much more robust shock resistance.

The usable space of 500-GB drive is reduced to NTFS formatting to around 466 GB. It price is the Gigabyte at very reasonable 18 cents only offered with the Seagate Momentus 5400.6 ST9500325AS drive an even more favorable for the price of 17 cents per gigabyte. The fourth-fastest in the test drive offered very good sequential transfer rates. The maximum data rate of WD20EADS16 was read 83.2 MB / s and writing 81.9 MB / s. Only one drive in the test, which also operates 5400 revolutions per minute, was a shade faster: the Seagate Momentus 5400.6 ST9500325AS.