Description
WD Blue drives are designed and manufactured with the proven technology found in WD's original award-winning desktop and mobile hard drives. Built to the highest standards of quality and reliability, these drives offer the features and capacity ideal for your everyday computing needs. 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.
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Ultra cool and quiet
Keeping the drive cool enhances reliability. WD continues to develop innovative ways to keep drives cool while they are operating which helps protect the drive and the data stored on it. -
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. -
IntelliSeek
It calculates optimum seek speeds to lower power consumption, noise and vibration. -
ShockGuard
It instantaneously protects the hard drive against damage from bumps and vibrations while it is running.
Specifications
Summary
- Product Description
- WD Blue WD5000AAKX - hard drive - 500 GB - SATA 6Gb/s
- Type
- Hard drive - internal
- Capacity
- 500 GB
- Form Factor
- 3.5" x 1/3H
- Interface
- SATA 6Gb/s
- Data Transfer Rate
- 600 MBps
- Buffer Size
- 16 MB
- Spindle Speed
- 7200 rpm
- Features
- Shock Guard, IntelliSeek, NoTouch ramp load technology, S.M.A.R.T.
- Dimensions (WxDxH)
- 10.2 cm x 14.7 cm x 2.5 cm
- Weight
- 450 g
- Manufacturer Warranty
- 2-year warranty
Detailed Specification
General
- Device Type
- Hard drive - internal
- Capacity
- 500 GB
- Form Factor
- 3.5" x 1/3H
- Interface
- SATA 6Gb/s
- Buffer Size
- 16 MB
- Features
- Shock Guard, IntelliSeek, NoTouch ramp load technology, S.M.A.R.T.
- Width
- 10.2 cm
- Depth
- 14.7 cm
- Height
- 2.5 cm
- Weight
- 450 g
Performance
- Drive Transfer Rate
- 600 MBps (external)
- Internal Data Rate
- 126 MBps
- Spindle Speed
- 7200 rpm
Reliability
- Non-Recoverable Errors
- 1 per 10^15
- Start / Stop Cycles
- 300,000
Expansion & Connectivity
- Interfaces
- 1 x SATA 6 Gb/s - 7 pin Serial ATA
- Compatible Bay
- 3.5" x 1/3H
Miscellaneous
- Compliant Standards
- RoHS
Manufacturer Warranty
- Service & Support
- Limited warranty - 2 years
Environmental Parameters
- Min Operating Temperature
- 0 °C
- Max Operating Temperature
- 60 °C
- Shock Tolerance
- 65 g @ 2ms (operating) / 350 g @ 1ms (non-operating)
