Specifications

Feature	Value	Comment
Performance Specifications
Rotational Speed	5,400 RPM (nominal)
Buffer Size	8 MB
Average Latency	5.50 ms (nominal)
Seek Times
Read Seek Time	12.0 ms
Track-To-Track Seek Time	2.0 ms (average)
Transfer Rates
Buffer To Host (Serial ATA)	3 Gb/s (Max)
Physical Specifications
Formatted Capacity	250,059 MB
Capacity	250 GB
User Sectors Per Drive	488397168
English
Height	0.374 Inches
Depth	3.94 Inches
Width	2.75 Inches
Weight	0.26 Pounds
Metric
Height	9.5 mm
Depth	100.2 mm
Width	69.85 mm
Weight	0.117 kg
Acoustics
Idle Mode	24 dBA (average)
Seek Mode 0	26 dBA (average)
Temperature (English)
Operating	32° F to 140° F
Non-operating	-40° F to 149° F
Temperature (Metric)
Operating	-0° C to 60° C
Non-operating	-40° C to 65° C
Humidity
Operating	8% to 95% Non-condensing
Non-operating	5-95% RH non-condensing
Altitude (English)
Operating	-1,000 feet to 10,000 feet
Non-operating	-1,000 feet to 40,000 feet
Altitude (Metric)
Operating	-305M to 3,050M
Non-operating	-305M to 12,200M
Vibration
Operating	0.00459 g²/Hz (10 to 500 Hz)
Non-operating	0.05102 g²/Hz (10 to 500 Hz)
Current Requirements
Read/Write	500 mA
Idle	400 mA
Standby	50 mA
Sleep	20 mA
Product Specifications
Interface	SATA 3 Gb/s
Operating System
Compatibility	Windows/Mac
Release Date
First seen	8 January 2008

Western Digital Scorpio Blue WD2500BPVT