Western Digital 2 TB 3.5 inch internal drive

psarinuk

Hi,

I had a to buy an internal hard drive for my security camera's DVR.

The spec says: "Seagate or Western Digital 3.5 inch SATA II Interface".

I've bought a hard drive from eBay called Western Digital, model is WD WD2002FYPS. The seller does not know much but wants me to make sure before dispatch.

I need to confirm if this is SATA 2. I cannot find this confirmation for WD WD2002FYPS on google. Can someone who knows tech stuff please advise?

Thanks.

googler

A search for "WD2002FYPS" on Amazon shows around half a dozen of the blighters.....

None of the labels pictured explicitly state SATA II .

Here's the Spec sheet - you didn't find this through google?

http://www.wdc.com/wdproducts/library/SpecSheet/ENG/2879-701312.pdf

Rubidium

Yes WD2002FYPS is SATA 2 300 MB/s

psarinuk

I think SATA 2 is 3 Gbps. 3Gbps is mentioned in the WD2002FYPS's spec sheet (does not mention SATA 2).
So this should be OK, right?

Rubidium

psarinuk wrote: »

I think SATA 2 is 3 Gbps. 3Gbps is mentioned in the WD2002FYPS's spec sheet (does not mention SATA 2).
So this should be OK, right?

Stated here for the WD2002FYPS

Second-generation SATA interfaces run with a native transfer rate of 3.0 Gbit/s that, when accounted for the 8b/10b encoding scheme, equals to the maximum uncoded transfer rate of 2.4 Gbit/s (300 MB/s).