What is the spin speed? The answer is here. 5400. It is a blue drive. Picture of actual product received included. null

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sgreene · Accepted Answer

WD does not claim a specific speed to this drive however they say it's comparable to a 7200rpm drive, It is considered by WD (western digital) to have their "Intellipower" technology. 
Long story short, The average consumer will not notice a difference between this and a 7200 rpm drive.

See their website explaination: https://support.wdc.com/knowledgebase/answer.aspx?ID=3892
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WD IntelliPower drives comparisons vs. traditional 7,200 RPM drives
Overall, this product meets the performance requirements of most applications while delivering significantly less power consumption. If your application requires mostly sequential read/writes, then the drive will perform comparable to a 7,200 RPM drive. However, if your application performs mostly random mode operations, then the performance may drop by about 10% because of the latency time. If the IntelliPower product does not meet your performance needs then we have our Enterprise Edition line of 7,200 RPM Enterprise drives that will deliver the performance you need at the industry’s best reliability.
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SantaClawz · Answer

It is not a 7200. I have a picture included. It is a 5400. I was misinformed by people like you before I bought it. Thanks anyways tho..

Me267501 · Answer

5400 rpm

killiamsdad · Answer

Yes it is the blue drive(base) not I believe the purple or black version.

Coach · Answer

5400 rpm

jfd3 · Answer

I concur with the last poster... Its a 5400 rpm drive.

Clem · Answer

7200

CommunityAnswer · Answer

The spinspeed is 7200 RPM for the hearddrive.

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