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Back up and protect your sensitive data with the Western Digital Scorpio Blue WD2500BPVT 250GB internal hard drive. First released in 2012, this device is designed for laptop and mobile devices that are equipped with a 2.5-inch SATA II interface bay. Featuring a maximum data transfer rate of 3.0 GB/s, the Western Digital Scorpio Blue is a great way to add storage for all of your files, videos, and photos.When you need to store gigabytes worth of games and high-definition content, this hard drive delivers both performance and reliability. The Western Digital Scorpio Blue hard drive achieves a capacity of 250GB by incorporating a more efficient media format called Advanced Format Technology. Older hard drives can only store 512 bytes of data in each sector. With Advanced Format Technology, each sector stores 4,096 bytes of data.The Western Digital Scorpio Blue WD2500BPVT hard drive also features a recorded rotational speed of 5400RPM, which helps reduce the average latency to no more than 5.5 milliseconds. Latency is the delay in the rotation of the disk before it can bring the required sector under the read-write mechanism. With this high speed, you can move files quickly and easily whenever you need them. Moreover, the Western Digital Scorpio Blue hard drive features 8MB of cache memory. The disk's cache memory is a data buffer system that helps to speed up the process of storing and accessing data from the hard disk drive. This feature gives you a better overall performance.This hard drive offers both reliability and efficiency for everyday computing without sacrificing performance, form factor, or noise level. This drive measures 0.37 by 2.75 by 3.94 inches and weighs 0.26 pounds. In a mobile device, silence is golden, and the WhisperDrive technology makes this hard drive whisper quiet. When the drive is active, the sound level never rises above 26 dBA. Moreover, the drive's low power consumption allows both your hard drive and your computer's battery life to last a long time. This is thanks to the advanced power management features and the algorithms that are used.Western Digital's Native Command Queuing technology optimizes the order in which the drive's commands are executed, which reduces the amount of movement in this device. The Shock Guard technology protects the drive's parts from harmful shocks or vibrations. WD’s Secure Park technology keeps the recording head off the disk surface during spin up, spin down, and certain moments of inactivity. This improves long-term reliability and minimizes wear and tear.The Western Digital WD2500BPVT 250GB hard drive gives you the added benefit of real-time data protection technology to help keep your data safe. You can also pair this HDD with an SSD to help boost the system's capacity even further. All of these features make this the ideal drive for laptop computers, notebooks, iPads, digital media players, and other accessories. Because you can seamlessly transfer your data, operating system, and programs between drives, upgrading is an easy process. Western Digital's products go through an average of 600,000 hours of rigorous testing, ensuring that they consistently meet high quality and reliability standards.