Western Digital WD10EALX, WD10EALS, WD1600AAJB, WD1600AAJS, WD2500AAJB User Manual

WD Caviar® Blue™

Desktop Hard Drives

WD Caviar Blue hard drives are available with either SATA or PATA interface in a variety of cache sizes with a multitude of available features to deliver rock solid performance and ultra-cool and quiet operation perfect for family and business computing.

INTERFACES	WIDTH/HEIGHT		ROTATIONAL SPEED
SATA 6 Gb/s and 3 Gb/s	3.5-inch/1-inch		7200 RPM
PATA 100 MB/s
MODEL NUMBERS
SATA 6 Gb/s	SATA 3 Gb/s		PATA 100 MB/s
WD10EALX	WD10EALS	WD2500AAKS	WD5000AAKB
WD7500AALX	WD6400AAKS	WD2500AAJS	WD3200AAJB
WD5000AAKX	WD5000AAKS	WD1600AAJS	WD2500AAJB
WD3200AAKX	WD3200AAKS	WD800AAJS	WD1600AAJB
WD2500AAKX	WD3200AAJS		WD800AAJB

CAPACITIES

80 GB to 1 TB

Note: Not all products may be available in all regions of the world.

Product Features

Solid performance	Capacity
With SATA and PATA interfaces, and	WD Caviar Blue drives are available
cache sizes up to 32 MB, this series	in capacities from 80 GB to 1 TB
of drives offers a full range of	because you can never have too
performance features.	much storage space.

Ultra-cool and quiet

Keeping the drive cool enhances reliability. WD continues to develop new and innovative ways to keep drives cool while they are operating which helps protect the drive and the data stored on it.

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.

IntelliSeek™

Calculates optimum seek speeds to lower power consumption, noise and vibration.

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.

Applications

Family and business computing.

Desktop / Consumer RAID Environments - WD Caviar Blue Hard Drives are tested and recommended for use in consumer-type RAID applications (RAID-0 / RAID-1).

-Business Critical RAID Environments – WD Caviar Blue Hard Drives are not recommended for and are not warranted for use in RAID environments utilizing Enterprise HBAs and/or expanders and in multi-bay chassis, as they are not designed for, nor tested in, these specific types of RAID applications. For all Business Critical RAID applications, please consider WD’s Enterprise Hard Drives that are specifically designed with RAID-specific, time-limited error recovery (TLER), are tested extensively in 24x7 RAID applications, and include features like enhanced RAFF technology and thermal extended burn-in testing.