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WD Caviar Blue Desktop WD5000AAKX 500 GB 3.5" Internal Hard Drive - SATA - 7200 rpm - 16 MB Buffer
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- Item #:
- N-162736
- Category:
- Hard Drives
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- Item is in stock
- Packaging:
- Retail Packaging
- Platform:
- Windows
- Condition:
- New
- Brand:
- Western Digital
From the Manufacturer
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Features
The original.
WD Blue drives are designed and manufactured with the proven technology found in WD’s original award-winning desktop and mobile hard drives.
WD quality.
Built to the highest standards of quality and reliability, these drives offer the features and capacity ideal for your everyday computing needs.
More options.
These drives are available in a broad range of capacities, cache sizes, form factors and interfaces so you can be sure there’s a drive that’s the perfect fit for your system, in more ways than one.
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.
SATA or PATA interface.
While SATA has become the industry standard interface, WD continues to manufacture desktop drives with a PATA interface for unique or legacy systems.
Tested for compatibility.
We perform tests on hundreds of systems and a multitude of platforms in our FIT 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.
The WD advantage.
WD puts our products through extensive Functional Integrity Testing (F.I.T) prior to any product launch. This testing ensures our products consistently meet the highest quality and reliability standards of the WD brand. WD also has a detailed Knowledge Base with more than 1,000 helpful articles as well as helpful software and utilities. Our customer support lines have longer operational hours to ensure you get the help you need when you need it. Our toll-free customer support lines are here to help or you can access our WD Support site for additional details.
Recommended use:
Instantaneously protects the hard WD Blue hard drives are tested and recommended for use in PCs, industrial applications, notebooks, netbooks and external enclosures.*
*Desktop drives are not recommended for use in RAID environments, please consider using WD Red hard drives for home and small office 1-5 bay NAS systems and WD Enterprise hard drives for rackmount and >5 bay NAS systems.
*Desktop drives are not recommended for use in RAID environments, please consider using WD Red hard drives for home and small office 1-5 bay NAS systems and WD Enterprise hard drives for rackmount and >5 bay NAS systems.
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Power of Choice
More products. More options. More solutions. More you.
Your digital life is unique and you need a family of internal hard drives that are as individual as you are.
WD offers more than a one-size-fits-all hard drive. WD offers you choice. And that’s a powerful thing.
WD Blue
WD Blue hard drives deliver solid performance and reliability for desktops PCs, external enclosures and for certain industrial applications.
WD Green
WD Green hard drives are designed for use as secondary drives in PCs, for external enclosures and other applications for which low noise and low heat are beneficial.
WD Black
WD Black hard drives are designed for enthusiasts and creative professionals looking for leading-edge performance.
WD Red
WD Red hard drives are designed and tested for compatibility in the unique 24x7 operating environment and demanding system requirements of home and small office NAS.
Specs
Performance Specifications
| Rotational Speed | 7,200 RPM (nominal) |
| Buffer Size | 16 MB |
| Load/unload Cycles | 300,000 minimum |
| Transfer Rates | |
|---|---|
| Transfer Rate (Buffer To Disk) | 126 MB/s (Max) |
Physical Specifications
| Formatted Capacity | 500,107 MB |
| Capacity | 500 GB |
| User Sectors Per Drive | 976,773,168 |
Physical Dimensions
| English | |
|---|---|
| Height | 1.028 Inches |
| Depth | 5.787 Inches |
| Width | 4.00 Inches |
| Weight | 1.52 Pounds |
| Metric | |
|---|---|
| Height | 26.1 mm |
| Depth | 147 mm |
| Width | 101.6 mm |
| Weight | 0.69 kg |
Environmental Specifications
| Shock | |
|---|---|
| Operating Shock (Read) | 30G, 2 ms |
| Non-operating Shock | 300G, 2 ms |
| Acoustics | |
|---|---|
| Idle Mode | 28 dBA (average) |
| Seek Mode 0 | 33 dBA (average) |
| Temperature (English) | |
|---|---|
| Operating | 32° F to 140° F |
| Non-operating | -40° F to 158° F |
| Temperature (Metric) | |
|---|---|
| Operating | -0° C to 60° C |
| Non-operating | -40° C to 70° C |
Electrical Specifications
| Current Requirements | |
|---|---|
| Power Dissipation |
Read/Write: 6.80 Watts Idle: 6.10 Watts Standby: 0.70 Watts Sleep: 0.70 Watts |
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Compatibility: Windows/Mac | |
Compatibility
| Operating System | |
|---|---|
| Power Dissipation |
Read/Write: 6.80 Watts Idle: 6.10 Watts Standby: 0.70 Watts Sleep: 0.70 Watts |
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Compatibility: Windows/Mac | |
SATA 6Gb/s Drives
WD is leading the way with a full lineup of SATA 6 Gb/s drives.
Over the years the industry has increased bus bandwidth from PATA through SATA 1.5 Gb/s and SATA 3 Gb/s to keep up with the demand for higher transfer rates. The next evolution of bus bandwidth has now been achieved with the introduction of SATA 6 Gb/s, (SATA 3.0). We've added a SATA 6 Gb/s interface to our award-winning WD Caviar Blue, Green, and Black desktop hard drives in capacities from 250 GB - 3 TB. This transition to a SATA 6 Gb/s interface aligns with the introduction of SATA 6 Gb/s-supporting chip sets and motherboards coming to the market.
Why should I buy a SATA 6 Gb/s hard drive from WD?
Buying a SATA 6 Gb/s drive now is a great way to make sure your hard drive will be compatible with next generation motherboards and chipsets.
And when you buy from WD, the world's leading hard drive supplier by volume, you gain comfort in knowing that the drive has been extensively tested for reliability and compatibility and will be supported by world-class technical support.
Will SATA 6 Gb/s drives work with older systems?
Yes, the SATA 6 Gb/s interface uses the same connector as SATA 3 Gb/s and is compatible with Microsoft Windows 7/Vista/XP/2000 and Mac OS X.
Awards
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General Information
WD Caviar Blue hard drives are available with either SATA or PATA interface in a variety of cache sizes with a multitude of available features to deliver rock solid performance and ultra-cool and quiet operation perfect for family and business computing. |
Technical Information
| Storage Capacity: | 500 GB |
| Platform Supported: | Mac |
| Platform Supported: | PC |
| Features: | NoTouch Ramp Load |
| Features: | IntelliSeek |
| Features: | Ultra Cool and Quiet |
| Features: | ShockGuard |
| Features: | S.M.A.R.T |
Drive Performance
| Maximum External Data Transfer Rate: | 600 MBps (4.7 Gbps) |
| Maximum Internal Data Transfer Rate: | 126 MBps (1008 Mbps) |
| Rotational Speed: | 7200 rpm |
| Buffer: | 16 MB |
Interfaces/Ports
| Drive Interface: | SATA |
| Drive Interface Standard: | SATA/600 |
| SATA Pin: | 7-pin |
Physical Characteristics
| Drive Type: | Internal |
| Drive Width: | 3.5" |
| Drive Height: | 1/3H |
| Height: | 1.0" |
| Width: | 4.0" |
| Depth: | 5.8" |
| Weight (Approximate): | 15.84 oz |
Miscellaneous
| Certifications & Standards: | CE |
| Green Compliant: | Yes |
| Green Compliance Certificate/Authority: | RoHS |
| Green Compliance Certificate/Authority: | WEEE |
Warranty
| Limited Warranty: | 2 Year |
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- UPC: 718037773421
- Mfr's Part #: WD5000AAKX
