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Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB (7200rpm) SATA 6Gb/s 16MB 3.5 inch Hard Drive WD5000AAKX

The highly respected Caviar Blue - Western Digital 500GB 7200RPM

3.5 inch 500G
Intenal SATA
7200RPM

CCL Code: HDD1106
Mnfr Code: WD5000AAKX
  • Disk Speed 7200RPM

    7200RPM

  • Interface Type SATA II

  • Cache Memory 16MB

    16MB

  • Disk Form Factor 3.5

  • Disk Capacity 500GB

    500GB

£54.26 inc VAT

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Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB (7200rpm) SATA 3Gb/s 16MB 3.5 inch Hard Drive (Internal).

WD Caviar Blue hard drives are available with either SATA or PATA interface in a variety of cache sizes with a multitude of available features to deliver rock solid performance and ultra-cool and quiet operation perfect for family and business computing.

Main Features:

  • 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
  • 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
  • Capacity - We offer WD Caviar Blue drives with capacities from 80 GB to 1 TB because you can never have too much storage space
  • 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 - Calculates optimum seek speeds to lower power cons
  • ShockGuard - Instantaneously protects the hard drive against damage from bumps and vibrations while it is running. This technology enables WD Caviar drives to achieve industry-leading shock specifications
  • 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
500GB Hard Drive
This system includes a 500GB hard drive to provide great performance and storage space. To put things in perspective, 500GB will allow you to store up to 100,000 average photographs, 37 hours of very high quality video or 125,000 average length songs!

Hard Disk
  • Drive Interface SATA 6Gb/s
  • Disk Size 3.5 Inches
  • Disk Capacity 500 GB
  • Disk Speed 7200 RPM
  • Data Buffer/RAM 16 MB
  • Platters 1
Warranty
  • Warranty 3 years
Electrical
  • Power Requirement Idle (Ready) 5.6 Watts
Environmental
  • Acoustics (Idle Mode) 29 dB
  • Operating Temperature 0 to 60 °C
  • Non Operating Temperature -40 to 70 °C
Physical
  • Form Factor 3.5 inch Hard Drive
  • Enclosure type Internal
  • Width 10.16 cm
  • Depth 14.7 cm
  • Height 2.54 cm
  • Weight 0.45 kg
  • Barcode 718037773421

29th March

15:44

Only had it a couple of weeks so can't really say yet.

18th February

15:29

A quality product at a resonable price.

16th February

18:22

Seems to be working fine!

31st January

09:12

This is, in my eyes, a premium product. I have always thought highly of WD products.

30th January

20:25

great stuff

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Q

Backward compatible?

Can these drives be used on SATA1 or SATA2 boards?

A

SATA I, II and III are fully backwards compatible with each other, and will simply run at the speed of the slowest one in use. -Danlevan

Q

WD have recently reduced their warranty on hard drives from 3 years to 1 year. We are disappointed by this development which looks like it might be... (more)

A

This is a measure WD have had to take to try to recover from the Thailand floods, which severely disrupted their manufacturing and distribution.

Q

DaddyOyah

How many years warranty do you get with this drive?

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