27 August 2011

Scorpio Blue 1TB hard drives

Reached your limit in your storage drive? No problem. Just dig a little deeper into your pocket, whip out a wallet-sized thingy, and off you go to your usual tech work.

Call it a space-saver with a lot of punch, the Western Digital Scorpio Blue 1TB 2.5” notebook hard drive is the choice you could easily make.

The WD Scorpio Blue WD10JPVT 1TB 5400 RPM 2.5” SATA II notebook hard drive, with a 5400 RPM drive speed, 8MB cache and 3 GB/s SATA interface speed is the largest capacity drive offered by Western Digital in the 2.5” SATA notebook standard.

Get this and be rewarded with massive amounts of storage space in your laptop.The WD10JPVT is 9.5mm and easily fits inside most notebooks.  The drive is fast, consumes less power and makes less noise.

The WD Scorpio Blue 1TB SATA hard drive is part of the Blue series -- or the WD mainstream products. Power-efficient drives are color-coded “Green” while high-performance drives are “Black.” Now the Scorpio Blue series feature 5,400 RPM drive speeds (5,200 RPM on some), 8 MB of cache memory and priced lower than “Green” and “Black.”.

WD Scorpio Blue WD10JPVT

Hard Drive Features:
* Form Factor: 2.5” x 1/8H (100.2mm x 69.85 x 9.5mm)
* Capacity: 1.0 TB
* Interface Type: Serial ATA-300
* Buffer Size: 8 MB
* Native Command Queuing (NCQ)
* Seek Time: 12.0 ms (average)
* Average Latency: 5.50 ms (nominal)
* Spindle Speed: 5400 RPM
* Noise Level: 22dBA at idle and 25dBA in seek mode 0
* Power Use: 1.40 Watts Read/Write, 0.59 Watts at idle and 0.18 Watts Sleep/Standby

The Scorpio Blue 1TB 2.5-inch hard drive uses WD ‘Advanced Format’ technology. The WD Scorpio Blue 1TB Notebook hard drive has a free capacity of 931GB -- ideal for those looking to get the most storage capacity possible from a notebook hard drive. This drive is also ideal for compact NAS servers that use 2.5-inch laptop drives as you could get a 1TB RAID1 array in 2-bay devices.

Our take on this mighty mite of a hard drive: The Western Digital Scorpio Blue 1TB SATA 2.5” laptop hard drive is truly impressive when it came to storage capacity and performance. 

Source: Manila Bulletin

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