WD WD20NPVT – Notebook hard disk drives for laptops are not


In Japan, the market appeared hard drive WD WD20NPVT, referring to a series of Green. The drive is a record of hard disk size 2.5 inches and boasts an impressive capacity of 2 TB. A distinctive feature of this HDD is its thickness, which is 15 mm instead of the standard 9 mm, that will not allow to put it in most laptops. The specifications on the new official website says: The use of laptops is not provided. Designed for PCs and external drives self-assembly. This thickness of the device, probably due to the use of four 500GB platters, each.

Of the remaining properties is known that the drive supports SATA interface, and has two cache memory of 8 MB. The line speed can be read IntelliPower, which does not mean changeable speed, as pointed out by many vendors. The table with the characteristics of the drive in a footnote can be read a description of the technology, where among other things says: Each model can be used WD Green has its own constant speed drive.

Winchester supports technologies that reduce power consumption, heat and noise of the drive. It also supports technology NoTouch (technology park heads) and IntelliSeek (calculates optimum seek speeds). As a result, the power consumption of HDD is 0.2 watts in sleep mode and 1.7 watts in the state of stress.

The manufacturer provides data drives a two-year warranty.
Dimensions of the drive is 100 x 70 x 15 mm, weight 180 g.
In Japan, the new product can be purchased for the sum of 240 $.

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