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Western Digital Caviar Blue WD5000AAKX 500GB 7.2K SATA Hard Drive
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.
While SATA has become the industry standard interface, WD continues to manufacture desktop drives with a PATA interface for unique or legacy systems.
Built to the highest standards of quality and reliability, these drives offer features and capacity at an affordable price.
| Performance Specifications | WD5000AAKX |
| Rotational Speed | 7200 RPM |
| Buffer Size | 16 MB |
| Transfer Rates | |
| Buffer To Disk (Serial ATA) | 126 MB/s (maximum) |
| Physical Specifications | |
| Formatted Capacity | 500,107 MB |
| Capacity | 500 GB |
| Interface | SATA 600 MB/s |
| User Sectors Per Drive | 976,773,168 |
| Physical Dimensions | |
| English | |
| Height | 1.028 Inches (Max) |
| Length | 5.787 Inches (Max) |
| Width | 4.00 Inches (+/- 0.010 inch) |
| Weight | 1.52 Pounds |
| Metric | |
| Height | 26.1 mm (Max) |
| Length | 147 mm (Max) |
| Width | 101.6 mm |
| Weight | 0.69 kg |
| Environmental Specifications | |
| 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 (English) | |
| Operating | 32° F to 140° F |
| Non-operating | -40° F to 158° F |
| Temperature (Metric) | |
| Operating | 0° C to 60 ° C |
| Non-operating | -40° C to 70° C |
| Power Dissipation | |
| Read/Write | 6.80 Watts |
| Idle | 6.10 Watts |
| Standby | .70 Watts |
| Sleep | .70 Watts |
