Description
WD Blue hard drives deliver solid performance and reliability while providing you with all of the space you need to hold enormous amounts of photos, videos, and files. WD Blue hard drives are designed for use as primary drives in notebooks and external enclosures.
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StableTrac
Motor shaft affixed to the baseplate and top cover stabilizes platters for accurate tracking during read and write operations, yielding higher drive data throughput in harsh shock and vibration environments. Supporting the top cover with the shaft also increases robustness to pinch forces. -
Available SATA
6 Gb/s interface The SATA 6 Gb/s interface provides greater flexibility for use with the latest chipsets as well as backwards compatibility to legacy systems with SATA 3 Gb/s requirements. (xPVX, and xPCX models only). -
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. -
The original WD
Blue drives are designed and manufactured with the proven technology found in WD's original 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. -
Low power consumption
State-of-the-art seeking algorithms and advanced power management features ensure low power consumption and long battery life. -
Upgrading your drive is easy
Acronis True Image WD Edition Software, 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. -
Compatible
15 mm 2.5-inch mobile drives is designed for thin and light mobile applications, and is also compatible with most standard 9.5 mm bays (xPCX, LPVT, and LPVX models only). -
Quiet
In a notebook drive, silence is golden. WD's exclusive noise reducing technologies yield one of the quietest 2.5-inch hard drives on the market.
Specifications
Summary
- Product Description
- WD Blue WD20NPVZ - hard drive - 2 TB - SATA 6Gb/s
- Type
- Hard drive - internal
- Capacity
- 2 TB
- Form Factor
- 2.5"
- Interface
- SATA 6Gb/s
- Data Transfer Rate
- 600 MBps
- Buffer Size
- 8 MB
- Spindle Speed
- 5200 rpm
- Features
- NoTouch ramp load technology, Advanced Format technology, Advanced Power Management technology, S.M.A.R.T.
- Dimensions (WxDxH)
- 69.85 mm x 100.2 mm x 15 mm
- Weight
- 180 g
- Manufacturer Warranty
- 2-year warranty
Detailed Specification
General
- Device Type
- Hard drive - internal
- Capacity
- 2 TB
- Form Factor
- 2.5"
- Interface
- SATA 6Gb/s
- Buffer Size
- 8 MB
- Features
- NoTouch ramp load technology, Advanced Format technology, Advanced Power Management technology, S.M.A.R.T.
- Width
- 69.85 mm
- Depth
- 100.2 mm
- Height
- 15 mm
- Weight
- 180 g
Performance
- Drive Transfer Rate
- 600 MBps (external)
- Seek Time
- 6.5 ms (average)
- Spindle Speed
- 5200 rpm
Reliability
- Non-Recoverable Errors
- 1 per 10^14
- Load / Unload Cycles
- 600,000
Expansion & Connectivity
- Interfaces
- 1 x SATA 6 Gb/s - 7 pin Serial ATA
- Compatible Bay
- 2.5"
Power
- Power Consumption
- 1.7 Watt (read) , 1.7 Watt (write) , 0.2 Watt (sleep) , 0.2 Watt (standby) , 0.8 Watt (idle)
Software & System Requirements
- OS Required
- Apple MacOS, Microsoft Windows 7 / Windows 8
Miscellaneous
- Compliant Standards
- RoHS 2011/65/EU
Manufacturer Warranty
- Service & Support
- Limited warranty - 2 years
Environmental Parameters
- Min Operating Temperature
- 0 °C
- Max Operating Temperature
- 60 °C
