Western Digital Blue 1TB Desktop Hard Drive, SATA III w/ 64MB Cache

MX40551 Blue 1TB Desktop Hard Drive, SATA III w/ 64MB Cache
MX40551 Blue 1TB Desktop Hard Drive, SATA III w/ 64MB Cache MX40551 Blue 1TB Desktop Hard Drive, SATA III w/ 64MB Cache

Product Info

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.

Features

  • 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.

Specifications

Model Number WD10EZEX
Formatted Capacity 1,000,204 MB
Capacity 1 TB
User Sectors Per Drive 1,953,525,169
Interface SATA 6Gb/s
   
Performance  
Rotational Speed 7,200rpm
Buffer Size 64 MB
Transfer Rate Buffer To Disk: 150 MB/s (Sustained)
Load/unload Cycles 300,000 minimum
 
Power  
Power Dissipation Read/Write: 6.80 Watts
Idle: 6.10 Watts
Standby: 1.20 Watts
Sleep: 1.20 Watts
 
Environmental  
Acoustics Idle Mode: 29 dBA (average)
Seek Mode 0: 30 dBA (average)
Shock Operating: (Read) 30G, 2 ms
Non-operating: 350G, 2 ms
Temperature Operating: -0° C to 60° C
Non-operating: -40° C to 70° C
   
Dimensions & Weight  
Dimensions (HxWxD) 1.028" x 5.787" x 4.00"
26.1 x 147 x 101.6 mm
Weight 0.97 lbs / 0.44 kg