Solid performance and reliability for everyday computing.

WD Blue drives deliver solid performance and reliability while providing all the space you need to hold an enormous amount of photos, videos and files. These drives are designed for use as primary drives in desktop PCs, external enclosures and for certain industrial applications.

• The original
  WD Blue drives are designed and manufactured with the proven technology found in WD's original award-winning desktop hard drives.
• WD quality
  Built to the highest standards of quality and reliability, these drives offer the features and capacity ideal for your everyday computing needs.
• More options
  These drives are available in a broad range of capacities, cache sizes and interfaces so you can be sure there's a drive that's the perfect fit for your system, in more ways than one.
• 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.
• SATA or PATA interface
  While SATA has become the industry standard interface, WD continues to manufacture desktop drives with a PATA interface for unique or legacy systems.
• Tested for compatibility
  We perform tests on hundreds of systems and a multitude of platforms in our FIT Lab™ to give our customers confidence that our drives will work in their systems.