WD 500GB Caviar Blue SATA-300 7200rpm 16MB (WD5000AAKS)

Quicklinx:	42DDWS00
Mfr#:	WD5000AAKS

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Description

Please Note: This is a OEM Bare Drive

WD Caviar SE16 7200 RPM next-generation SATA hard drives feature 16 MB cache for lightning-fast performance, cool and quiet operation and up to 500 GB of storage for capacity-hungry applications.

Features

The original
WD Blue drives are designed and manufactured with the proven technology found in WD's original award-winning desktop and mobile 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, form factors 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
WD perform tests on hundreds of systems and a multitude of platforms in the FIT Lab to give the customers confidence that the drives will work in their systemsUpgrading your drive is easy.
The WD advantage
WD puts the products through extensive Functional Integrity Testing prior to any product launch. This testing ensures the products consistently meet the highest quality and reliability standards of the WD brand.

Specifications

Summary

Product Description: WD Blue WD5000KS - hard drive - 500 GB - SATA 3Gb/s

Type: Hard drive - internal

Capacity: 500 GB

Form Factor: 3.5" x 1/3H

Interface: SATA 3Gb/s

Data Transfer Rate: 300 MBps

Buffer Size: 16 MB

Spindle Speed: 7200 rpm

Features: Data Lifeguard, Shock Guard, SecureConnect, FlexPower, WhisperDrive, Soft Seek

Dimensions (WxDxH): 10.2 cm x 14.7 cm x 2.54 cm

Weight: 0.6 kg

Microsoft Certification: Works with Windows Vista

Manufacturer Warranty: 2-year warranty

Detailed Specification

General

Device Type: Hard drive - internal

Capacity: 500 GB

Form Factor: 3.5" x 1/3H

Interface: SATA 3Gb/s

Buffer Size: 16 MB

Features: Data Lifeguard, Shock Guard, SecureConnect, FlexPower, WhisperDrive, Soft Seek

Width: 10.2 cm

Depth: 14.7 cm

Height: 2.54 cm

Weight: 0.6 kg

Performance

Drive Transfer Rate: 300 MBps (external)

Internal Data Rate: 93.5 MBps

Seek Time: 8.9 ms (average) / 21 ms (max)

Track-to-Track Seek Time: 2 ms

Average Latency: 4.2 ms

Spindle Speed: 7200 rpm

Reliability

Non-Recoverable Errors: 1 per 10^14

Start / Stop Cycles: 50,000

Expansion & Connectivity

Interfaces: 1 x SATA 3 Gb/s - 7 pin Serial ATA

Compatible Bay: 3.5" x 1/3H

Miscellaneous

Works with Windows Vista: Software and devices that carry the Works with Windows Vista logo have been tested for baseline compatibility with PC's running.

Manufacturer Warranty

Service & Support: Limited warranty - 2 years

Environmental Parameters

Min Operating Temperature: 5 °C

Max Operating Temperature: 55 °C

Humidity Range Operating: 5 - 95%

Shock Tolerance: 65 g @ 2ms (operating) / 350 g @ 2ms (non-operating)

Vibration Tolerance: 0.75 g @ 20-300 Hz (operating) / 4 g @ 20-500 Hz (non-operating)

Sound Emission: 28 dBA

Customer reviews

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Quiet

By Anonymous
Posted 30/09/2007

Bought 2 of these to use as a RAID 1 mirrored pair with a Dabs Value 4 port SATA RAID PCI card (quicklinx 3Z2QWS). Very pleased as they are much quieter and noticeably faster than the 3 year old Western Digital and Maxtor IDE drives I had in my PC before. Remember you need adapters to power SATA drives if your motherboard has only the old IDE power connectors. Easy to set up and install in Windows XP as extra drive. Had problems cloning my old C drive onto the new mirrored pair with Western Digital Data Lifeguard (encountered errors during clone), Maxtor MaxBlast (clone appeared to work but WinXP hung on booting), Miray HDClone (did not recognise the SATA card). Recommend XXClone (freeware) for this - it was slow but worked.

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WD Raptor

By .
Posted 01/12/2007

Because Raptors are 10,000RPM drives with 4ms seeks. Ideal for gaming, and faster than most desktop drives (New 500gb/1tb have better sustained transfers). You cant beat the Raptor for seek times with any other consumer drives. (Not including Enterprise storage, as we all know that Data is clever.)

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Great once i figured them out

By Anonymous
Posted 11/03/2007

I bought two of these to create a 1TB JBOD RAID array. They did require a jumper in order to be detected by my motherboard but once I had figured that out (took a while!) they run really nice they're quiet compared to my old WD drive. Performance seems to be excellent also.

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