PRODUCT BRIEF
Product Highlights
• Storage built to Western Digital’s high standards
of quality and reliability
• Manufactured with Western Digital’s awardwinning desktop and mobile hard drive
technology
• Available in a broad range of capacities
• Tested in our F.I.T. Lab™ for ultimate compatibility
• Free Acronis™ True Image™ WD Edition sof tware
available for download
INTERFACE
SATA 6 Gb/s
FORM FACTOR
2.5-inch
PERFORMANCE CLASS
5400 RPM Class
CAPACITIES
320GB to 2TB
MODEL NUMBERS
WD20SPZX
WD10SPZX
WD5000LPCX
WD5000LPVX
WD5000LQVX
WD3200LPCX
WD3200LPVX
™
WD Blue
Western Digital WD Blue
2.5-inch HDD
WD Quality
Built to the high standards of quality and reliability of the WD brand, these
drives offer the features and capacity ideal for everyday computing needs.
The Original
WD Blue 2.5-inch PC Hard Drives are designed and manufactured with the proven technology found in WD’s original award-winning hard drives.
Compatible
The latest generation of 7 mm 2.5-inch mobile drives is designed for thin and light mobile
applications, and is also compatible with most standard 9.5 mm bays.
SATA 6 Gb/s interface
The SATA 6 Gb/s interface provides greater flexibility for use with the latest chipsets as
well as backwards compatibility to legacy systems with SATA 3 Gb/s requirements.
Low Power Consumption
State-of-the-art seeking algorithms and advanced power management features help
ensure low power consumption.
Quiet
In a notebook, silence is golden. WD’s exclusive noise reducing technologies yield some
of the quietest 2.5-inch hard drives on the market.
Upgrading Your Drive is Easy
Acronis™ True Image™ WD Edition cloning software is available as a free download on
the WD Support site enabling you to copy all your data to a new drive. You don’t have to
reinstall your operating system to get all the benefits of a new drive.
THE WESTERN DIGITAL ADVANTAGE
Western Digital puts our products through extensive Functional Integrity Testing (F.I.T.) prior to any
product launch. This testing ensures our products
consistently meet the highest quality and reliability
standards of the Western Digital brand.
Western Digital also has a detailed Knowledge
Base with more than 1,000 helpful articles as well as
helpful software and utilities. Our customer support
lines have longer operational hours to ensure you
get the help you need when you need it. Our tollfree customer support lines are here to help or you
can access our Western Digital Support site for
additional details.
Enhanced Availability (EA)—for 24x7 Access to Data
Western Digital provides enhanced availability models of WD Blue 2.5-inch PC Hard
Drives (WD5000LQVX) that deliver 24×7 access to information for data-intensive applications requiring round-the-clock operation. WD Blue EA models support the stringent
demands of “always-on” applications in lower-transaction environments and come with a
3-year standard warranty.
™
Western Digital WD Blue
2.5-inch HDD
PRODUCT BRIEF
Specifications
2TB 1TB 500GB 500GB 320GB 320GB
Model Number²
Recording Technology
10
WD20SPZX WD10SPZX WD5000LPCX
SMR SMR CMR CMR CMR CMR
Formatted capacity 2TB 1TB 500 GB 500 GB 320 GB 320 GB
Form factor 2.5-inch 2.5-inch 2.5-inch 2.5-inch 2.5-inch 2.5-inch
Advanced Format (AF) Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
RoHS compliant Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Performance
Data transfer rate (max)
Interface speed
Cach e (MB) 128 128 16 8 16 8
Performance Class 5400 RPM 5400 RPM 5400 RPM 5400 RPM 5400 RPM 5400 RPM
Average drive ready time (sec) 3.5 2.8 2.8 2.8 2.8 2.8
6 G b/s 6 G b/s
6 G b/s 6 G b/s 6 G b/s
Reliability/Data Integrity
Load/unload cycles 600,000 600,000 600,000 600,000 600,000 600,000
Non-recoverable read errors
per bits read
<1 in 1014
<1 in 1014
<1 in 1014
Limited warranty (years) 2 2 2 2 2 2
Power Management
Average power requirements
(W)
Read/Write
Idle
Standby and Slee p
Environmental Specifications
6
1.7
0.5
0.1
7
1.5
0.5
0.1
1.4
0.55
0.16
Temperature (°C, on the base casting)
Operating
Non-operating
Acoustics (dBA)8
Idle
Seek (average)
0 to 60
-40 to 65
23
24
0 to 60
-40 to 65
19
21
0 to 60
-40 to 65
17
22
Physical Dimensions
Height (in./mm, max) 0.28 / 7. 0 0. 2 8/7.0 0 . 27/6 . 8 0 .2 7/6 .8 0 . 2 7/6 .8 0 . 27/6 . 8
Length (in./mm, max) 3.94/100.20 3.94/100.20 3.94/100.20 3.94/100.20 3.94/100.20 3.94/100.20
Width (in./mm, ± .01 in.) 2.75/69.85 2.75/69.85 2.75/69.85 2.75/69.85 2.75/69.85 2.75/69.85
Weight (lb/kg, ± 10%) 0.20/0.09 0.20/0.09 0.20/0.09 0.21/0.095 0.20/0.09 0.20/0.09
1
As used for s torage capaci ty, one gigabyte (GB) = on e billion bytes an d one terabyte (TB) = o ne trillion byte s. Total
accessible capacity varies depending on operating environment. As used for buffer or cache, one megabyte (MB) =
1,048,576 byt es. As used f or transfer rate o r interface, meg abyte per secon d (MB/s) = one milli on bytes per secon d,
and giga bit per second (Gb/s) = one bill ion bits p er second. Effe ctive maximum SATA 6 Gb/s transfer ra te calculated
accordi ng to the Serial ATA specificat ion published by t he SATA-IO organiz ation as of the date of t his specificati on
sheet. Visit www.sata-io.org for details.
2
Not all pro ducts may be avail able in all region s of the world.
3
WD hard dri ve products manu factured and so ld worldwide af ter June 8, 2011, meet o r exceed Res triction of
Hazardous Substances (RoHS) compliance requirements as mandated by the RoHS Directive 2011/65/EU.
4
Controlled unload at ambient condition.
5
See http://support.wdc.com/warranty for regional specific warranty details.
6
Power measurements at room-ambient temperature.
7
No non-recoverable errors during operating tests or after non-operating tests.
8
Sound pow er level.
9
Design ed for low duty cycl e, non mission-cr itical applic ations in PC, near line and consume r electronic s
environments, which vary application to application.
10
Implementation of SMR for these products is device-managed SMR.
WD5000LPVX
WD5000LQVX
<1 in 1014
1.4
0.5
0.20
0 to 60
-40 to 65
19
21
WD3200LPCX WD3200LPVX
6 G b/s
<1 in 1014
1.4
0.55
0.16
0 to 60
-40 to 65
17
22
<1 in 1014
0.55
0.13
0 to 60
-40 to 65
1.4
17
22
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