Western Digital WD5000AAKX SATA Hard Drive

Western Digital Caviar Blue WD5000AAKX 500GB 7.2K SATA Hard Drive 

These drives are built utilising 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.

Compatibility:

This drive is compatible with any of our SATA hot-swap trays.

Specifications:

• 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:

• Height: 1.028 Inches (Max) / 26.1 mm (Max)
• Length: 5.787 Inches (Max) / 147 mm (Max)
• Width: 4.00 Inches (+/- 0.010 inch) / 101.6 mm
• Weight: 1.52 Pounds / 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:

• Operating: 0° C to 60° C / 32° F to 140° F
• Non-operating: -40° C to 70° C / -40° F to 158° F

Power Dissipation:

• Read/Write: 6.80 Watts
• Idle: 6.10 Watts
• Standby: 0.70 Watts
• Sleep: 0.70 Watts