Drive has been wiped in compliance with the US DoD 5220.22-M(ECE) sanitation standard.
Drive has been thoroughly tested using the HD Sentinel program and has passed the following tests: (1) Short Self-Test, (2) Extended Self-Test, and (3) Conveyance Self-Test. Test results will be included with the drive as certification and are also available at the following links:
Hard Drive failure rates are highest in the first 3 months of use and considering drive has passed extensive testing and is visually indistinguishable from a brand new drive, buying this drive is better than buying a new drive as you can be assured that it won't immediately fail (infant mortality).
SATA 3.0 Gb/s Interface: The 2.5” SATA internal notebook hard drive features the next-generation SATA II interface supporting up to 3.0 Gb/s data transfer rates, Native Command Queuing (NCQ) and hot-pluggable point-to-point connections for optimum performance, efficiency, convenience and flexibility.
High Performance Hard Drive: The bare drive features a high performance 5400 RPM hard drive with a total capacity of 320GB so you can store your movies, music, applications and documents for easy sharing with your friends and even back up your system.
Hard Disk Model | WDC WD3200BEVT |
Disk Family | Scorpio Blue |
Form Factor | 2.5" |
Capacity | 320 GB (320 x 1 000 000 000 bytes) |
Number Of Disks | 2 |
Number Of Heads | 4 |
Rotational Speed | 5400 RPM |
Rotation Time | 11.11 ms |
Average Rotational Latency | 5.56 ms |
Disk Interface | Serial-ATA/300 |
Buffer-Host Max. Rate | 300 MB/seconds |
Buffer Size | 8192 KB |
Drive Ready Time (typical) | 4 seconds |
Average Seek Time | 12 ms |
Track To Track Seek Time | 2 ms |
Width | 69.85 mm (2.75 inch) |
Depth | 100.2 mm (3.94 inch) |
Height | 9.5 mm (0.37 inch) |
Weight | 100 grams (0.22 pounds) |
Acoustic (Idle) | 2.4 Bel |
Acoustic (Min performance and volume) | 2.6 Bel |
Acoustic (Max performance and volume) | 2.6 Bel |
Required Power For Spinup | 500 mA |
Power Required (Seek) | 2.5 W |
Power Required (Idle) | 2.0 W |
Power Required (Standby) | 0.25 W |
Manufacturer | Western Digital Corporation |