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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Improve PC performance
Give your desktop a performance and storage boost when you combine your hard drive with an SSD to maximize speed of data access and a WD Blue drive for additional capacity. -
Plan for the future
With better technology comes bigger storage needs. Digital cameras that record ultra-high definition video at 4K resolution and 30 frames per second require a ton of storage. Handling all that media is a snap with the WD Blue drive. -
Trust in WD
With legendary reliability, WD Blue drives are designed, tested and built to last.
Specifications
Summary
- Product Description
- WD Blue WD5000BPVT - hard drive - 500 GB - SATA 3Gb/s
- Type
- Hard drive - internal
- Capacity
- 500 GB
- Form Factor
- 2.5" x 1/8H
- Interface
- SATA 3Gb/s
- Data Transfer Rate
- 300 MBps
- Buffer Size
- 8 MB
- Spindle Speed
- 5400 rpm
- Features
- Shock Guard, WhisperDrive, SecurePark, Advanced Format technology
- Dimensions (WxDxH)
- 70 mm x 100 mm x 9.5 mm
- Weight
- 117 g
- Microsoft Certification
- Works with Windows Vista
- Manufacturer Warranty
- 2-year warranty
Detailed Specification
General
- Device Type
- Hard drive - internal
- Capacity
- 500 GB
- Form Factor
- 2.5" x 1/8H
- Interface
- SATA 3Gb/s
- Buffer Size
- 8 MB
- Features
- Shock Guard, WhisperDrive, SecurePark, Advanced Format technology
- Width
- 70 mm
- Depth
- 100 mm
- Height
- 9.5 mm
- Weight
- 117 g
Performance
- Drive Transfer Rate
- 300 MBps (external)
- Internal Data Rate
- 106 MBps
- Track-to-Track Seek Time
- 2 ms
- Average Latency
- 5.5 ms
- Spindle Speed
- 5400 rpm
Reliability
- Non-Recoverable Errors
- 1 per 10^14
- Start / Stop Cycles
- 600,000
Expansion & Connectivity
- Interfaces
- 1 x SATA 3 Gb/s - 7 pin Serial ATA
- Compatible Bay
- 2.5" x 1/8H
Miscellaneous
- Works with Windows Vista
- Software and devices that carry the Works with Windows Vista logo have been tested for baseline compatibility with PC's running.
- Compliant Standards
- RoHS
Manufacturer Warranty
- Service & Support
- Limited warranty - 2 years
Environmental Parameters
- Min Operating Temperature
- 0 °C
- Max Operating Temperature
- 60 °C
- Humidity Range Operating
- 8 - 95%
- Shock Tolerance
- 350 g @ 2ms (operating) / 1000 g @ 2ms (non-operating)
