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The Scorpio Black Hard Disk Drive
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The 320 GB Western Digital Scorpio Black hard drive looks just like any other 2.5" notebook hard drive, with a label on the top plate and an uncovered PCB on the underside.
The label has a lot of important information, like the hard drive model and capacity. There are also interesting details like its date and place of manufacture. This particular drive was manufactured in Thailand on 7 June 2008.
Also, the label is where you look for the drive's serial number in case you need to RMA it. Of course, we hope that never happens! 
Let's take a look at its specifications.
Specifications
Model |
• WD3200BEKT (No Free-Fall Sensor) |
Formatted Capacity |
• 320,072 MB |
Guaranteed Sectors |
• 625,142,448 |
Bytes Per Sector |
• 512 bytes |
Sectors Per Track |
• NA |
Cylinders |
• NA |
Platters |
• NA |
Read/Write Heads |
• NA |
Recording Method |
• NA |
Interleave |
• 1 : 1 |
Spindle Speed |
• 7,200 RPM |
Cache Buffer |
• 16 MB SDRAM |
Maximum Internal Data Transfer Rate |
• NA |
Maximum I/O Transfer Rate |
• 3 Gbits/s |
Average Seek |
• 12.0 ms (read) |
Average Latency |
• 4.20 ms (nominal) |
Drive Ready Time |
• 4.0 seconds (average) |
Interface |
• Serial ATA 3Gb/s |
Supported SATA Data Transfer Mode |
• 3 Gbits/s |
SATA II Hotplug Capability |
• Yes |
Maximum Height |
• 9.5 mm |
Maximum Width |
• 69.85 mm |
Maximum Length |
• 100.2 mm |
Maximum Weight |
• 99 g |
Power Requirements |
• +5V DC ± 5 % |
Power Consumption |
• 5.0 W (Spin Up) |
Ambient Temperature |
• 0 °C to 60 °C
(Operating) |
Operating Altitude |
• -305 meters to 3,050 meters |
Non-Operating Altitude |
• -305 meters to 12,200 meters |
Maximum Operating Shock |
• 275 G @ 2 ms (read) |
Maximum Non-Operating Shock |
• 900 G @ 1 ms |
Drive Acoustics |
• 22 dBA average (Idle Mode) |
Maximum Operating Vibration |
• 0.00459 g²/Hz (10 to 500 Hz) |
Maximum Non-Operating Vibration |
• 0.05102 g²/Hz (10 to 500 Hz) |
Non-Recoverable Read Errors |
• < 1 error per 1014 bits read |
Load/Unload Cycles |
• 600,000 |
Warranty |
• 5 Years Limited Warranty |
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