Blue 500GB Mobile Hard Drive, SATA III w/ 16MB Cache
Product Info
Trusted Engineering
Built to WD's highest standards of quality and reliability, WD Blue offers the features and entry-level capacities that are ideal for your computing needs. WD Blue is designed by the brand that you trust with the quality you would expect for a tested, proven, everyday storage solution.
A Modern Classic
WD Blue storage is designed and manufactured with technology found in WD's original award-winning desktop and mobile hard drives. WD Blue sets the baseline for everyday storage by consistently delivering improved performance over previous generations while successfully maintaining WD's quality and reliability for over six generations. The difference is that our colors never fade, generation after generation.
Features
Your Power of Choice
WD Blue is available in a broad range of entry-level capacities, cache sizes, form factors and interfaces so you can be sure there's a drive that's the perfect fit for your system. However, not all hard drives are created equally and for your applications that demand more, WD gives you the power of choice.
Drive with confidence
We perform tests on hundreds of systems, configurations, and a multitude of platforms in our FIT Lab to give our customers the confidence that our drives will work in their systems for the ultimate compatibility. WD Blue allows you to use our drive with confidence, knowing that our storage advancements such as NoTouch Ramp Load technology are proven and reliable everyday solutions.
Easy Upgrade
Acronis True Image, available as a download on the WD Support website, 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.
The WD Advantage
WD puts our products through extensive Functional Integrity Testing (F.I.T.) prior to any product launch. This testing ensures our products consistently meet the highest quality and reliability standards of the WD brand. WD also has a detailed Knowledge Base with more than 1,000 helpful articles as well as helpful software and utilities. Our customer support lines have longer operational hours to ensure you get the help you need when you need it. Our toll-free customer support lines are here to help or you can access our WD Support site for additional details.
Recommended Uses
This WD Blue HDD is tested and recommended for use in notebooks, external enclosures and certain industrial applications.
Specifications
| Model Number | WD5000LPCX |
|---|---|
| Capacity | 500 GB |
| Interface | SATA 6Gb/s |
| Rotational Speed | 5,400 rpm |
| Buffer Size | 16MB |
| Acoustics | Idle: 17dBA Seek: 22dBA |
| Temperature | Operating: 0 ~ 60° C (32 ~ 140° F) Non-operating: -40 ~ 65° C (-40 ~ 149° F) |
| Power | Read/Write: 1.4W Idle: 0.55W Standby / Idle: 0.16W |
| Dimensions | 69.9 x 100.2 x 7.0mm |
| Weight | 90g (3.2 oz) |
