Western Digital WD5003AZEX User Manual
™
WD Black
PC Hard Drives
WD Black performance storage is designed to enhance your
PC experience across heavier computing tasks whether
you are a digital artist, video editor, photographer, or gamer.
Available with up to 128 MB of DRAM cache on higher
capacity models, the WD Black drive is optimized for drive
performance so you can spend more time experiencing the
things you love most.
INTERFACE
SATA 6 Gb/s
MODEL NUMBERS
WD6001FZWX WD2003FZEX
WD5001FZWX WD1003FZEX
WD4003FZEX WD5003AZEX
WD3003FZEX
Product Features
Inspiring performance and
capacity
WD Black performance storage is
designed to enhance your PC experience
across heavier computing tasks whether
you are a digital artist, video editor,
photographer, or gamer. Available with an
impressive 128 MB of DRAM cache on
higher capacity models, the WD Black PC
drive is optimized for drive performance
so you can spend more time experiencing
the things you love most. Enhance your
PC’s performance even further when you
combine a WD Black drive with an SSD
for a dual drive conguration, allowing you
to benet from the additional caching of
your operating system onto the SSD for
increased performance. All together, the
WD Black drive gives you the hard drive
performance, capacity and an industry
leading 5-year limited warranty for an
inspiring three-in-one storage solution.
FORM FACTOR
3.5-inch
For Creative Professionals
When it comes to storing your creativity
and entire digital portfolio, look no further
than WD Black performance storage for
your best solution. Use the WD Black drive
for storing your large multimedia les of
photos, videos, games or applications and
programs because with a WD Black drive,
you get the best combination of speed,
capacity and larger cache sizes.
For Gamers
The WD Black drive is the perfect storage
solution for your gaming machine by
offering large capacities to store your
game’s downloadable content (DLC),
larger cache sizes, and it is the perfect
compliment for maximum system
performance when combined with an
SSD. The WD Black drive also includes
StableTrac™ Technology (2 TB and larger
models) for more accurate data tracking
due to vibrations from additional gaming
hardware. The WD Black drive also offers
a 5-year limited warranty to match or beat
your other gaming hardware warranties.
ROTATIONAL SPEED
7200 RPM
Increased Reliability
The WD Black drive is equipped with
StableTrac Technology (2 TB and larger
models) by securing the motor shaft inside
to increase reliability and help reduce
impact due to system-induced vibrations
from other components. By stabilizing the
platters inside, the WD Black drive results
in more accurate tracking in a particular
sector during read and write operations,
optimizing performance and reliability.
Increased DRAM cache
The WD Black drive delivers high-speed
transfer speeds and read rates of your
les with impressive cache sizes of up to
128 MB of DRAM on our high capacity
models. WD’s Dynamic Cache Technology
improves caching algorithms in real time to
allocate and optimize cache between reads
and writes. This movement of cache for
read data helps to reduce congestion and
increase overall performance.
CAPACITIES
500 GB to 6 TB
Efcient dual processing
When it comes to processing power, more
is always better especially for loading
games or large multimedia les. The WD
Black drive features a dual-core processor
that offers twice the processing capability
as a single-core processor to maximize
drive performance for faster read and write
speeds.
Industry-leading 5-year limited
warranty
Compared to standard hard drives such
as WD Blue™, our WD Black hard drives
pass more strenuous and aggressive
internal testing over a longer period of time,
which is why the WD Black drive is backed
by an industry-leading 5-year warranty.
Our success combined with innovation,
renement, and our passion for storage,
instills condence in our consumers.
Applications
Power computing applications such as video and photo editing, and maxed out gaming computers.
Desktop / Consumer RAID Environments - WD Black PC Hard Drives are tested and recommended for use in consumer-type RAID applications (RAID 0 and RAID 1).*
* Business Critical RAID Environments – WD Black PC 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 specic types of RAID applications. For all Business Critical RAID applications, please consider WD’s Enterprise Hard Drives that are specically
designed with RAID-specic, 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.
WD Black
™
Specications 6 TB 5 TB 4 TB 3 TB
Model number
Interface SATA 6 Gb/s SATA 6 Gb/s SATA 6 Gb/s SATA 6 Gb/s
Formatted capacity
Form factor 3.5-inch 3.5-inch 3.5-inch 3.5-inch
Advanced Format (AF) Yes Yes Yes Yes
RoHS compliant
Performance
Data transfer rate (max)
Buffer to host
Host to/from drive (sustained)
Cache (MB) 128 128 64 64
Rotational speed (RPM) 7200 7200 7200 7200
Reliability/Data Integrity
Load/unload cycles
Non-recoverable read errors per bits
read
Limited warranty (years)
Power Management
Average power requirements (W)
Read/Write
Idle
Standby/Sleep
Environmental Specications
Temperature (°C)
Operating
Non-operating
Shock (Gs)
Operating (2 ms, write)
Operating (2 ms, read)
Non-operating (2 ms)
Acoustics (dBA)
Idle
Seek (average)
Physical Dimensions
Height (in./mm, max) 1.028/26.1 1.028/26.1 1.028/26.1 1.028/26.1
Length (in./mm, max) 5.787/147 5.787/147 5.787/147 5.787/147
Width (in./mm, ± .01 in.) 4/101.6 4/101.6 4/101.6 4/101.6
Weight (lb./kg,) 1.58/0.72 ± 3% 1.66/0.75 ± 3% 1.50/0.68 ± 10% 1.40/0.64 ± 10%
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WD6001FZWX WD5001FZWX WD4003FZEX WD3003FZEX
6 TB 5 TB 4 TB 3 TB
Yes Yes Yes Yes
6 Gb/s
218 MB/s
300,000 300,000 300,000 300,000
<1 in 1014 <1 in 10
6 Gb/s
194 MB/s
6 Gb/s
171 MB/s
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<1 in 1014 <1 in 1014
6 Gb/s
168 MB/s
5 5 5 5
6
10.6
7.6
1.6
5 to 55
-40 to 70
30
65
300
31
34
10.6
7.6
1.6
5 to 55
-40 to 70
30
65
300
31
34
9.5
8.1
1.3
5 to 55
-40 to 70
30
65
300
29
34
9.5
8.1
1.3
5 to 55
-40 to 70
30
65
300
29
34
1
Not all products may be available in all regions of the world.
2
As used for storage capacity, one megabyte (MB) = one million bytes, one gigabyte (GB) = one billion bytes, and one terabyte (TB) = one trillion bytes. Total accessible capacity varies depending on operating environment. As used for buffer or cache, one megabyte (MB) = 1,048,576 bytes. As used for transfer
rate or interface, megabyte per second (MB/s) = one million bytes per second, and gigabit per second (Gb/s) = one billion bits per second. Effective maximum SATA 3 Gb/s transfer rate calculated according to the Serial ATA specication published by the SATA-IO organization as of the date of this specication
sheet. Visit www.sata-io.org for details.
3
WD hard drive products manufactured and sold worldwide after June 8, 2011, meet or exceed Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) compliance requirements as mandated by the RoHS Directive 2011/65/EU.
4
Maximum burst rate running the Mode 5 Ultra ATA transfer mode.
5
Controlled unload at ambient condition.
6
See http://support.wd.com/warranty for regional specic warranty details.
7
No non-recoverable errors during operating tests or after non-operating tests.
8
Sound power level.
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