--- product_id: 2147462 title: "WD Scorpio Black 500 GB SATA 7200 RPM 16 MB Cache Bulk/OEM 2.5\" Mobile Hard Drive (WD5000BPKT)" brand: "western digital" price: "421.32 DT" currency: TND in_stock: true reviews_count: 7 url: https://www.desertcart.tn/products/2147462-wd-scorpio-black-500-gb-sata-7200-rpm-16-mb store_origin: TN region: Tunisia --- # 7200 RPM speed 500 GB capacity 16 MB cache WD Scorpio Black 500 GB SATA 7200 RPM 16 MB Cache Bulk/OEM 2.5" Mobile Hard Drive (WD5000BPKT) **Brand:** western digital **Price:** 421.32 DT **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Summary > 🚀 Elevate Your Storage Game! ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** WD Scorpio Black 500 GB SATA 7200 RPM 16 MB Cache Bulk/OEM 2.5" Mobile Hard Drive (WD5000BPKT) by western digital - **How much does it cost?** 421.32 DT with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.tn](https://www.desertcart.tn/products/2147462-wd-scorpio-black-500-gb-sata-7200-rpm-16-mb) ## Best For - western digital enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted western digital brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - • **Unleash Desktop Power:** Experience lightning-fast performance with 7200 RPM speed. - • **Reliability Guaranteed:** Enjoy peace of mind with a 5-year limited warranty. - • **Whisper-Quiet Operation:** IntelliSeek technology minimizes noise and vibration. - • **Massive Storage Capacity:** Store up to 100,000 photos and 125,000 MP3s effortlessly. - • **Power Efficiency Champion:** Longer battery life with optimized power consumption. ## Overview The WD Scorpio Black 500 GB SATA 7200 RPM hard drive combines desktop-class performance with power efficiency, making it an ideal choice for professionals seeking reliable and high-speed storage solutions for their laptops. ## Description Product Description WD Black 7200 RPM SATA 2.5-inch hard drives from Western Digital combine a lightning-fast 7200 RPM spin speed with a SATA 3 Gb/s interface and 16 MB cache to deliver desktop-class performance. With 5400 RPM-equivalent power consumption there is no compromise in battery life. In addition, WD Scorpio Black hard drives are designed with ruggedness, reliability, and data-protection features that actively watch over valuable data. Available in capacities up to 750 GB, these hard drives are perfect for laptop users who require maximum capacity and lightning-fast performance. From the Manufacturer WD Scorpio Black Hard Drives – High performance for notebook computing.WD Scorpio Black 7200 RPM SATA 2.5-inch hard drives combine 7200 RPM spin speed, SATA 3 Gb/s interface, and 16 MB cache to deliver maximum performance for notebook computing. Best of all, these drives are backed by a industry leading 5-year limited warranty.Why you should choose WD Scorpio Black drives:WD Scorpio Black delivers industry-leading performance that's perfect for notebook gaming and intensive photo and video editing. High performance. These high performance hard drives with 7200 RPM spin speed, 16 MB cache, and SATA 3 Gb/s interface are sure to satisfy even the most demanding notebook users. Top-of-the-line reliability. WD Scorpio Black hard drives come standard with an industry-leading 5-year limited warranty. Award winning. This 7200 RPM speedster is at the top of its class when it comes to performance and reliability. Ideal for:Power computing applications such as intensive photo or video editingNotebook gamingAdding extra storage space for photos, videos and musicFeatures:SATA 3 Gb/s interface - The industry standard and most common interface.NoTouch ramp load technology - The recording head never touches the disk media ensuring significantly less wear to the recording head and media as well as better drive protection in transit.Advanced Format (AF) - being adopted by WD and other drive manufacturers to continue growing hard drive capacities.New drives featuring AF are optimized for operation with Windows 7, Windows Vista and Mac OS X Tiger, Leopard, Snow Leopard. For older operating systems such as Windows XP, users must run the free WD Align software utility available for download at wdc.com to achieve the full performance of the drive. Rugged - WD's ShockGuard technology protects the drive mechanics and platter surfaces from shocks.Tested for compatibility - We perform tests on hundreds of systems and a multitude of platforms in our FIT Lab and Mobile Compatibility Lab to give our customers confidence that our drives will work in their systems.Upgrading your drive is easy - WD Acronis TrueImage, available as a free download on the WD Support site, enables you to copy all your data to a new drive so you don't have to reinstall your operating system to get all the benefits of a new drive. Note: Bare drive does not include any cables or mounting hardware.The WD advantage - WD puts our products through extensive Functional Integrity Testing (F.I.T.) prior to any product launch. On average, each new product goes through 600,000 hours of testing. WD also has a detailed Knowledge Base with more than 1,000 helpful articles. You can also call toll-free support 7 days per week in the U.S. and Canada. See the WD Support site for full details.WD-certified packaging - All WD drives purchased from .com are shipped in WD-certified hard drive packaging. It is designed and fully tested to provide WD products with the highest of safety while in transit. With WD-certified packaging, you can rest assured that your WD hard drive will arrive safely, fully protected, in a non-descript, easy-open package.Compatibility Works with Windows 7/Vista/XP/2000, Mac and Linux operating systems. You might also consider: ## Features - WD Scorpio Black7200 RPM SATA 2.5-inch hard drives from Western Digital deliver desktop-class performance and power efficiency for longer battery life. Capacities up to 750 GB - 7200 RPM and 16MB cache deliver desktop performance for your laptop - IntelliSeek - Calculates optimum seek speeds to lower power consumption, noise, and vibration - 500 GB capacity holds up to 100,000 digital photos, 125,000 MP3 files, and 60 hours of HD video - 5 year limited warranty ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Standing screen display size | 2.5 Inches | | Hard Drive | 500 GB | | National Stock Number | 7025-01-601-6059 | | Brand | Western Digital | | Series | Scorpio Black | | Item model number | WD5000BPKT | | Hardware Platform | Mac; PC | | Item Weight | 4 ounces | | Product Dimensions | 3.94 x 2.75 x 0.37 inches | | Item Dimensions LxWxH | 3.94 x 2.75 x 0.37 inches | | Color | Black | | Flash Memory Size | 500 | | Hard Drive Interface | Serial ATA | | Hard Drive Rotational Speed | 7200 RPM | | Manufacturer | Western Digital | | Language | English | | ASIN | B004LR1RPK | | National Stock Number | 7025-01-601-6059 | | Is Discontinued By Manufacturer | No | | Date First Available | February 3, 2011 | ## Images ![WD Scorpio Black 500 GB SATA 7200 RPM 16 MB Cache Bulk/OEM 2.5" Mobile Hard Drive (WD5000BPKT) - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51wXwIPqsXL.jpg) ![WD Scorpio Black 500 GB SATA 7200 RPM 16 MB Cache Bulk/OEM 2.5" Mobile Hard Drive (WD5000BPKT) - Image 2](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41-PibvYBvL.jpg) ![WD Scorpio Black 500 GB SATA 7200 RPM 16 MB Cache Bulk/OEM 2.5" Mobile Hard Drive (WD5000BPKT) - Image 3](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51IzYxuTE3L.jpg) ![WD Scorpio Black 500 GB SATA 7200 RPM 16 MB Cache Bulk/OEM 2.5" Mobile Hard Drive (WD5000BPKT) - Image 4](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/519LeJH+Q3L.jpg) ## Available Options This product comes in different **Size** options. ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars Don't be skeptical! BUY THIS NOW! (Macbook User; Running OS X LION) *by Y***I on Reviewed in the United States on May 13, 2012* I was on edge about buying this hard drive because all the negative reviews regarding noise, and vibration. Not to mention I own a mid-2009 White Macbook and noticed some people had trouble with the Sudden Motion Sensor. I was stuck between this hard drive and the Hitachi Travelstar. I ended up going with this because I have a WD my passport which works pretty swell after running steam games off it. AND I noticed many of the Hitachi drives were dying at an alarming rate in ONLY the macbook reviewer's reviews (everyone was reporting similar problems in an alarmingly similar time frame-- go check it out for yourself!)FOR MACBOOK USERS:So it was pretty to swap this hard drive in, and I restored from a Time Machine Full System Back up, and LION Recovery Assistant USB (which I made myself following Apple's instructions on their site! This is highly recommend for all Lion users who are switching to a new hard drive using LION/Time Machine seeing as how your Lion Recovery Partition will ONLY be on your old hard drive--- even after restoring from back up you lose the partition! LOL I checked and the only way to restore it is to reinstall lion which at this point I feel would be too much of a hassle and the recovery thumb drive works just fine.)NOW BACK TO DRIVE REVIEW:It took about 1 hour and 30 minutes to get back up and running. (I only transferred over 80 gb from a 160 gb stock Fujitsu 5400rpm hard drive. So let's address some concerns I had before purchasing (it took days of me going OCD on forums trying to figure out everything users had to say about this drive and it's performance.)- NOISE: Since this is a 7200rpm drive, many users noted that theirs makes loud whirring noises and chirps. I have yet to experience this (I've had the drive for about two weeks now.) I really believe these people got a fluke drive or weren't careful enough installing it correctly. My drive, while not as quiet as the stock drive, does give off a slight "air" sound which is lower than the macbook's "monster" fans. Overall the system is very quiet and you should NOT let negative reviews stop you! This is actually quieter than my "whipser"-quiet 160gb PS3 slim.... and that is saying a lot :)-ADVANCED FORMATTING troubles: Didn't have any. LION/Time Machine recognized the drive immediately! No crashes during set up.-VIBRATIONS- seeing as how this IS a 7200rpm drive, there is a slight vibration. Like another reviewer stated, it is no more than a WD MyPassport portable hard drive! Actually a bit less vibration. To help Macbook users get an idea, it feels a little less like what it feels like to have a DVD in the Superdrive.- TEMPERATURE: Using iSTAT, my old hard drive was 37 degrees all the time. This one is 40 degrees when it's really working.-SPEED BOOST: Though not exactly noticeable coming from a 5400 rpm drive, start up is about ten seconds faster. Programs start 3 seconds sooner. What is better is that capturing footage or audio recording straight from the macbook is much faster. I use my macbook to record videos, music, and occasional design files. Everything seems to feel a bit snappier and smooth. No hiccups or stutter with media.-BATTERY LIFE: My battery health is about 79% but I do notice this drive sucks more power than the stock drive. I get about 20 minutes less than before with each charge depending on what I am doing. Not bad.-SUDDEN MOTION SENSOR: The Macbook settings are the same and moving it around while recording videos has no effect on it. (Just don't go crazy shaking it like you want to kill it. No conflict.CONCLUSION:Though I have not had this drive for long, I would highly recommend it for those of you who are on edge. I will definitely be updating this review if it happens to die, or some funky things start happening to it. So, if you need the space, don't care for an SSD, and want a slight speed increase, I HIGHLY recommend this! Not to mention the price on Amazon is swell! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars Fastest non-SSD laptop drive available, and very well priced! *by S***O on Reviewed in the United States on March 26, 2010* I had been looking to upgrade the stock hard drive in my early '08 MacBook Pro, which was a Hitachi 250GB 5400 RPM w/ 8MB cache drive. That old drive was fine, but since speed was my primary concern, and SSD's were too expensive at the time of purchasing this new WD drive, I was looking for the fastest non-SSD laptop hard drive available.I have both Snow Leopard and Windows 7 on this new WD hard drive. I use Windows 7 primarily for gaming and Snow Leopard for everything else (lots of multi-tasking) non-gaming related. After doing a _LOT_ of research into what the fastest non-SSD drive, I came to a couple of different solutions. A 320 GB 7200 RPM Seagate drive, a 500 GB 5400 RPM WD Blue drive, and the drive I'm reviewing now, the 320GB 7200 RPM WD Black drive. The 500 GB WD drive uses 2 platters, making it "almost" as fast as this 320GB WD drive, but from the many various benchmarks I had come across, this 320 GB WD drive consistently was faster (and in some cases much faster). While the Seagate drive had shown to be faster than this 320 GB WD drive in some benchmarks, I didn't feel confident in the Seagate brand enough (I've personally had some bad experiences with their drives, and I know other people who also have had similar experiences). I know that part is subjective, but still. The 320GB WD drive seemed to be the most reliable, pretty much the fastest, and also happened to be the cheapest of the three ($71). So I bought, got it, and installed it.[REVIEW BEGINS HERE--->] Some of the reviews here claim that this drive is "noisy" or hotter than their old drive. First things first, this drive is no more hot than a 5400 drive. In fact, it really does feel cooler if anything. Remember that I was using a 2 year old 5400 RPM Hitachi drive before. I also haven't noticed any negative affects on battery life. So already, this drive is awesome. Now, on to the noise debate. The "clicking" of the drive heads themselves (that noise you hear when your hard drive is working or "thinking") is nearly _silent_. It's quieter than my old 5400 RPM drive. This really surprised me here. However, the actual spinning disc platters themselves are a little noticeable, but that will come with ANY 7200 RPM drive. That is not to say that it's loud by any means, it's not. It's still a very quiet drive. I also did not really notice any extra vibration, although there have been one or two times where I did. But even then, it was hardly noticeable unless you're in a completely quiet room where you can hear your own ears ringing.The drive size is...subjective. 250 GB was fine with me, so 320 GB is even better. But this will change from person to person obviously. I had plenty of room to install Snow Leopard and many applications/files/music/documents/etc., along with Windows 7 and many games. And even then I still have lots of room to spare.Now the important part; the speed. Damn this drive is fast. The hard drive section of the Windows Experience Index score went from 5.2 in the old drive to 5.9 on this drive (5.9 is the score limit for mechanical hard drives in Windows 7). Everything I used to do is now done in half the time. It's basically a 33% speed increase in loading times across the board. Games load so much faster now. Multitasking with certain applications is no longer a pain in the ass. Things that used to make me wait leave me pleasantly surprised now because they load so much faster. It will give new life to your drive that no other mechanical drive could.TL;DR: If you want the fastest non-SSD drive available today for your laptop, get this drive. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Die Überflieger HDD *by M***L on Reviewed in Germany on September 10, 2010* Nach einigen Tagen Nutzung dieser Festplatte, erlaube ich mir an dieser Stelle eine Bewertung.Warum diese Platte gekauft ?----------------------Zahlreiche Testberichte und positive Rezensionen haben mich dazu bewegt die Platte in meinem neuen Macbook Pro zu tauschen. Die hier verbaute Hitachi Platte war zwar beim sequentiellen Lesen schnell, fiel jedoch bei zufälligen Zugriffen stark ab.Bestellung und Lieferung----------------------Zwischen Bestellung und Lieferung durch Amazon via UPS verging nur 1 Werktag. Die Platte war gut verpackt (mit Stretchfolie an ein Stück Karton gewickelt und in 2 Umverpackungen)Installation und Betrieb----------------------Alte Platte raus - neue rein. Snow Leopard frisch installiert - was mir hier schon aufgefallen ist. Die Platte gibt kein typisches "Kratzgeräusch" bei Zugriffen von sich. Es ist eher ein leises rauschen, welches nach Intensität der Auslastung variiert. Für meine Ohren ein angenehmer Ton - also kein hochfrequentes fiepen, wie ich es schon von Seagate Momentus Platte gehört habe. Angesichts der Drehzahl von 7200 RPM muss man aber auch sagen, dass die Festplatte natürlich hörbar ist. Die kritischen Bewertungen bezüglich der Lautstärke von einigen Rezensenten kann ich jedoch nicht nachvollziehen. Da dieser Eindruck jedoch auch vom persönlichen Höreindruck, der Raumakustik usw. abhängig ist kann ich hier nur direkte vergleiche mit anderen bisher von mir eingesetzten Platten ziehen. Und in diesem Vergleich ist die Platte ganz vorne.Beim starten von Anwendungen und Kopier bzw. Verschiebeaktionen zeigt die Platte eine sehr gute Performance. Die zuerst spürbare gefühlte Performance spricht absolut für sich. Da ich auch ein Referenzsystem mit SSD in Betrieb habe (Supertalent Ultradrive GX 128) ziehe ich hier auch einen kurzen Vergleich zu dieder SSD.Der Start von OS X 10.6 dauert mit der SSD 13 Sekunden, mit der WD Scorpio Black 21 Sekunden.Die Performance wurde mit dem AJA System Test bei einer Dateigröße von 4 GB geprüft :WD Scorpio Black (WDC WD3200BEKT) :Schreibrate : 86 MB/sLeserate : 88 MB/sSuper Talent Ultradrive GX :Schreibrate : 108 MB/sLeserate : 206 MB/sMan kann sich von den reinen Zahlen hier etwas getäuscht fühlen. Die mehr als doppelt so hohe Leserate der SSD relativiert sich in der Praxis etwas, da hier auch die Schreibrate eine entscheidende Rolle spielt, und hier ist die SSD nur beim sequentiellen Schreiben größerer Dateien wirklich viel besser.Zur "Hitzeentwicklung" kann ich nur sagen, dass ich diese nicht erkennen kann. Die rechte Handballenauflage, unter der die Platte verbaut ist wird nicht warm. Hier wird meine SSD deutlich wärmer. Die Leistungsaufnahme der HDD dürfte gegenüber der SSD trotzdem beim doppelten liegen.Garantie und Service :----------------------5 Jahre Garantie sprechen für sich - ich hoffe trotz allem, dass ich die Garantie wie bei meinen im Betrieb befindlichen WD Platten (6 St.) bisher üblich auch nie brauchen werde.Die Platte einfach online bei WD registrieren - hier werden dann auch alle WD Platten die man besitzt verwaltet und die Restgarantie angezeigt.Fazit :----------------------Sehr schnelle, ausgewogene Platte, welche zwar nicht immer die erste in Benchmarks ist, jedoch bei sehr intensiver Auslastung auch Werte zeigt, an welche die Konkurrenz nicht herankommt - auch wenn diese mit höheren sequentiellen Schreib und Leseraten glänzt (Hitachi, Samsung)Die gefühlte Geschwindigkeit ist bei dieser Platte auf Grund der extrem schnellen Zugriffszeit in Kombination der guten Transferraten und des offensichtlich guten Cache-Managements jedenfalls höher als bei als "besser gebenchten" Platten der Mitbewerber, was unabhängige Tests auch bestätigen. Hier wird oft die Datenbankperformance mit IOMeter gemessen - die WD Scorpio liegt hier immer an der Spitze - und das obwohl das Laufwerk schon über 2 Jahre auf dem Markt ist. 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