WD5000AZLX 500GB SATA/600 32MB cache 7200 ot WD BLUE

Western Digital expands their award-winning desktop and mobile storage lineup with WD Blue PC hard drives. Extensively tested and built to WDs high standards, WD Blue offers a wide variety of capacities – ranging from 250 GB to the massive 6 TB – in both desktop and mobile models. Drive WD Blue with confidence.

Improve PC Performance

Pair a larger capacity drive with an SSD to give your desktop a performance and storage boost. The SSD maximizes speed of data access, while the WD Blue drive stores up to 6 TB of movies, games, files, applications and more.

Upgrade and Backup with Ease

WD hard drives come with free access to WD Acronis True Image. Backup and restore functions make it easy to save and retrieve your personal data without the need to reinstall the OS.

NoTouch Ramp Load Technology

Safely positions the recording head off the disk surface to protect your data.

IntelliSeek

Calculates optimum seek speeds to lower power consumption, noise and vibration.

• Model number: WD5000AZLX
• Interface: SATA 6 Gb/s
• Formatted capacity: 500.107 MB
• Advanced Format (AF): Yes
• Size: 3.5 inch
• RoHS compliant: Yes

Performance

• Data transmission rate (max.): Buffer operations to the host: 6 Gb/s / Host operations to/from the drive (continuous): 150 MB/s
• Cache (MB): 32
• Speed (rpm): Class 7200 rpm

Reliability/Data Integrity

• Load/unload cycles: 300,000
• Non-correctable read errors per bit read:

Power Supply

• 12 V direct current +/-10 % (A, peak): 2
• Average power consumption (W): read/write 6,8 / idle 6,1 / standby/hibernation 1,2

Environmental conditions

• Temperature (°C): In operation 0 to 60 / standby / idle -40 to 70
• Shock (G): Operation (2 ms, write) 30 / Operation (2 ms, read) 65 / Idle (2 ms) 350
• Noise level (dBA): Idle 29 / Search (average) 30

Physical dimensions

• Height (inch/mm, max.): 1.028/26,1
• Length (inch/mm, max.): 5.787/147
• Width (inch/mm, +/- .01 inch): 4/101.6
• Weight (kg/lb, +/- 10%): 0,99/0.45