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Western Digital 500GB SATAIII HDD

Warranty: 3 Years | Stock: In Stock

$119.00

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Product Details

The original These drives are built utilizing the tried and true proven technology of the original award-winning WD Caviar 3.5-inch hard drives for desktop computers.

Solid performance With SATA and PATA interfaces, and cache sizes up to 32 MB, this series of drives offer a full range of performance features.

Capacity We offer WD Caviar Blue drives with capacities from 80 GB to 1 TB because you can never have too much storage space.

Ultra cool and quiet Keeping the drive cool enhances reliability. WD continues to develop new and innovative ways to keep drives cool while they are operating which helps protect the drive and the data stored on it.

Compatible We perform tests on hundreds of systems and a multitude of platforms in our FIT Lab and Mobile Compatibility Lab to give our customers confidence that our drives will work in their systems.

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
Interface SATA 6 Gb/s (SATA 3)
User Sectors Per Drive 976,773,168

Physical Dimensions

Height 26.1 mm
Depth 147 mm
Width 101.6 mm
Weight 0.69 kg

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

Operating -0° C to 60° C
Non-operating -40° C to 70° C

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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