Western Digital Caviar Black WD5001AALS Hard Drive - WD5001AALS
Western Digital Caviar Black 500GB SATA 3 Gb/s 32 MB Cache 7200RPM Desktop Internal Hard Drive - OEM/Bare

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Manufacturer: Western Digital
Mfg Part#: WD5001AALS
UPC: 00718037736686
Buy.com Sku: 209246371
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WD Caviar Black drives combine a high performance electronics architecture with a rock solid mechanical architecture to deliver the perfect storage solution for your fully-loaded PC or maxed out gaming machine. Cool drive operation, no-touch head technology, and leading-edge vibration protection ensure enhanced reliability and sustained data throughput. And we back it all up with a 5-year limited warranty.

How this WD hard drive protects your data?

  • Data Lifeguard is an exclusive set of data protection features, including shock protection, an environmental protection system and real-time embedded error detection and repair. WD's Data Lifeguard technology automatically finds, isolates, and repairs problems that may develop over the life of a hard drive.
  • Data Lifeguard Tools are software utilities designed for WD hard drives that work with the embedded Data Lifeguard features to make hard drive installation,diagnostics and repair both simple and worry-free. (Download Data Lifeguard Tools)
  • ShockGuard instantaneously protects the hard drive against damage from bumps and vibrations while it is running. This technology enables WD Caviar drives to achieve industry-leading shock specifications
     
  • Features
    Dual processor - Twice the processing power to maximize performance.
    32 MB cache - Bigger, faster cache means faster performance
    StableTrac - The motor shaft is secured at both ends to reduce system-induced vibration and stabilize platters for accurate tracking, during read and write operations.
    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.
    Massive Capacity - WD Caviar Black SATA drives are available in capacities up to 1 TB.
    Compatible - We perform tests on hundreds of systems and a multitude of platforms in our FIT Lab and Mobile Compatibility Lab to give our customers confidence that our drives will work in their systems

     
    Tech Specs
    Performance Specifications
    Buffer To Host (Serial ATA): 3 Gb/s (Max)

    Physical Specifications
    Formatted Capacity: 500,107 MB
    Capacity: 500 GB
    Interface: SATA 3 Gb/s
    User Sectors Per Drive: 976,773,168

    Physical Dimensions
    Height: 1.028 Inches
    Length: 5.787 Inches
    Width: 4.00 Inches
    Weight: 1.52 Pounds

    Environmental Specifications
    Operating Shock (Read): 30G, 2 ms
    Non-operating Shock: 250G, 1 ms
    Idle Mode: 25 dBA (average)
    Seek Mode 0: 29 dBA (average)
    Seek Mode 3: 26 dBA (average)
    Operating: 32° F to 140° F
    Non-operating: -40° F to 158° F
    Humidity Operating: 5-95% RH non-condensing
    Humidity Non-operating: 5-95% RH non-condensing
    Altitude Operating: -1,000 feet to 10,000 feet
    Altitude Non-operating: -1,000 feet to 40,000 feet
    Vibration Operating: 0.004 g²/Hz (10 to 300 Hz)
    Vibration Non-operating: 0.05 g²/Hz (10 to 300 Hz)
    Operating Linear: 20-300 Hz, 0.75 G (0 to peak)
    Operating Random: 0.004 g²/Hz (10 to 300 Hz)
    Non-operating Low Frequency: 0.05 g²/Hz (10 to 300 Hz)
    Non-operating High Frequency: 20-500 Hz, 4.0G (0 to peak)

    Electrical Specifications
    12 VDC Read/Write: 490 mA
    12 VDC Idle: 470 mA
    12 VDC Standby: 5 mA
    12 VDC Sleep: 5 mA
    5 VDC Read/Write: 500 mA
    5 VDC Idle: 420 mA
    5 VDC Standby: 160 mA
    5 VDC Sleep: 160 mA
    Power Dissipation Read/Write: 8.3 Watts
    Power Dissipation Idle: 7.7 Watts
    Power Dissipation Standby: 1.00 Watts
    Power Dissipation Sleep: 1.00 Watts

      
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    Value 4.5
    Performance 5
    Ease of Use 5
    Overall Satisfaction 5
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    5 of 5 Fast, Quiet Thursday, March 26, 2009
    Ken Smith from Ocean Pines, MD  

    Purchased this drive as a backup after Seagate 1TB drive developed bad sectors. It is quiet and fast, but runs slightly hotter than the replacement drive Seagate sent me. So far, I am very pleased with the operation of this drive.
     
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    5 of 5 The way to go! Wednesday, March 18, 2009
    slamp from Petoskey, MI  
    After buying two seagate drives and having them both fail I went back to old reliable, Western Digital. Nice Drive, decent price, and it works! I won't buy anything other than Western Digital from this point forward!
     
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    5 of 5 Quiet and fast Tuesday, February 17, 2009
    A Customer from Ohio  
    It was very easy to install and is absolutely silent when operating. The performance numbers are as advertised. I've only had it for a month but so far it's well worth the extra money.
     
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    5 of 5 Extremely Pleased Wednesday, January 28, 2009
    A Customer from Portsmouth, RI  
    I added this drive to my desktop which runs Windows Vista. My old SATA drive was working slowly. This drive has greatly improved the overall performance of my system. Vista and internet pages load much quicker. I've only had the drive for about one week, and am very pleased. Only complaint is that it did not come with disk cloning software.
     
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