Western Digital Scorpio Blue WD6400BEVT

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Item 3030: Western Digital WD6400BEVT
Newegg.com
$ 89.99
Amazon.com
$ 99.99
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$ 102.99 + $ 11.47 shipping
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PC Connection
$ 109.95
Size640 GB
Cache (MB)8
RPM5400
Form Factor2.5"
InterfaceSATA
Speed3 Gb/s
Disk Cache (MB) Size (GB) Best Price Vendor Value (GB/$)
Western Digital Scorpio Blue WD6400BEVT 8 640 89.99 Newegg.com 7.11
Samsung Spinpoint M7E HM641JI 8 640 99.99 Newegg.com 6.40
Seagate Momentus 5400 ST9640320AS 8 640 99.99 Newegg.com 6.40
Western Digital Scorpio Blue WD6400BPVT 8 640 112.57 Amazon.com 5.69

Price History

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Recent Price Changes

2010-03-19 Newegg.com $89.99 -10.00
2010-03-16 Buy.com $104.24 -6.59
2010-03-09 Amazon.com $99.99 -10.00
2010-03-08 Newegg.com $99.99 -10.00
2010-03-07 PC Connection $109.95 -40.51
2010-03-06 Amazon.com $109.99 +10.00
2010-03-06 Newegg.com $109.99 +10.00
2010-03-04 ZipZoomfly.com $104.99 -5.00
2010-02-28 Amazon.com $99.99 +2.22
2010-02-25 Newegg.com $99.99 -20.00

Manufacturer's Specs

General
InterfaceSATA 3 Gb/s
Formatted Capacity640,135 MB
User Sectors Per Drive1,250,263,728
Capacity640 GB
Performance
Read Seek Time12.0 ms
Rotational Speed5,400 RPM (nominal)
Average Latency5.50 ms (nominal)
Track-To-Track Seek Time2.0 ms (average)
Buffer To Host (Serial ATA)3 Gb/s (Max)
Buffer Size8 MB
Power
Standby0.25 Watts
Read/Write2.50 Watts
Sleep0.10 Watts
Idle0.85 Watts
Acoustics
Seek Mode 026 dBA (average)
Idle Mode24 dBA (average)

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External links

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Reviews & Benchmarks

Tom's Hardware - Laptop Storage: 640GB And 500GB Drives From WD And Fujitsu - 2009-11-02
  • Western Digital WD6400BEVT
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