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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 |