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JandR.com has the Western Digital Scorpio WD2500BEVS 250GB Serial ATA150 2.5″ Notebook Hard Drive for $160 + $7 shipping = $167 shipped. This notebook driv. an 8MB cache, 12ms seek time and an average latency of 4.2ms.

Product description from JandR.com:

250 GB Capacity / 5400-RPM Rotational Speed / 8MB Buffer / 12 ms access time / 4.20 ms nominal average latency / Cool and Quiet

WD Scorpio delivers best-in-class performance with low power c!
onsumption and cool operation. In addition, you’ll get one of the quietest 2.5-inch drives on the market with Real-time Data protection technology to help keep your data safe. It’s ideal for adding 250GB Storage to portable Digital devices of all kinds, including Notebook computers, external storage, digital media players, GPS and navigation systems, and other automotive and industrial applications.

Massive capacity - Whether they are in an external drive or a notebook computer, WDs 250 GB 2.5-inch drives offer the most available capacity for space-hungry operating systems like Windows Vista, plus plenty of room left over for photos, music, and Video

Fast and efficient - With 5400 RPM spin speed and 12 ms access time, even the most demanding customer will appreciate the performance achieved by WD Scorpio drives

Quiet - In a notebook drive, silence is golden. WDs exclusive WhisperDrive combines state-of-the-art seeking algorithms to yield one of the quietest 2.5-!
inch hard drives on the market. These algorithms also optimize the way
a drive seeks for data, which significantly improves power consumption. So now silence (and longer Battery life) is golden

Reliable and Rugged - WD’s ShockGuard technology protects the drive mechanics and platter surfaces from shocks. WD’s SecurePark parks the Recording heads off the Disk surface during spin up, spin down and when the drive is off. This ensures the recording head never touches the disk surface resulting in improved long term reliability due to less head wear, and improved non- operational shock tolerance

Tested for Compatibility

Rotational Speed 5,400 RPM (nominal)

Buffer Size 8 MB

Average Latency 4.20 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) 1.5 Gb/s (Max); Buffer To Disk 600 Mbits/s (Max)

Formatted Capacity 250,059 MB; Rated Capacity 250 GB

Interface SATA 1.5 Gb/s

Cool and Quiet Performance for durable, long-lasting dependa!
bility and for use in silent areas such as libraries and study halls

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