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Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB SATA2 7200RPM 16MB 8.9MS 3.5IN NCQ Hard Drive OEM 3YR MFR Warranty
Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB SATA2 7200RPM 16MB 8.9MS 3.5IN NCQ Hard Drive OEM 3YR MFR Warranty
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   Shipping Weight:   2 lbs
   Part #: WD5000AAKS

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 Features    [ Edit | History ] - By ggogeta @May 10, 2007
WD Caviar SE16 500 GB drives scored a 5.9--the highest possible score--on the Windows Experience Index performance tests built into Windows Vista. These drives combine 16 MB cache with 300 MB/s transfer rate for lightning-fast performance and cool, quiet operation. Enhanced reliability features help protect the drive and the data stored on it.

Key Features
Top performance for Windows Vista - The WD Caviar SE16 500 GB SATA drive received a 5.9, the highest possible score on the Windows Vista Experience Index.

16 MB Cache - Bigger cache means faster performance. A massive 16 MB cache combined with advanced acoustic and power-reducing technologies make these ultra-fast drives the perfect solution for the fully loaded PC.

IntelliSeek™ - Calculates optimum seek speeds to lower power consumption, noise and vibration. View demo>

Ramp Load - Parks the recording heads off the disk surface during spin up, spin down and when the drive is off.  This ensures the recording head never touches the disk surface resulting in improved long term reliability due to less head wear, and improved non-operational shock tolerance.

Preemptive Wear Leveling (PWL) - The drive arm frequently sweeps across the disk to reduce uneven wear on the drive surface.

Ideal For
  • Designed for use in the fastest PCs on the market, including high-performance business computers and multimedia or gaming systems. Perfect for Windows Vista.

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.

Important interface information

This drive requires a SATA interface
[WD Interface Guide]




Up to 142,000 digital photos
Up to 125,000 songs (MP3)
Up to 12,000 songs (uncompressed CD quality)
Up to 38 hours of Digital Video (DV)
Up to 200 hours of DVD quality video
Up to 60 hours of HD video

Mouse over each item to see how it was calculated.
(Examples of the number of photos, songs, videos and any other files that can be stored on a hard drive are provided for illustrative purposes only. Your results will vary based on file size and format, settings, features, software and other factors.)

One gigabyte (GB) = one billion bytes. One terabyte (TB) = one trillion bytes. Total accessible capacity varies depending on operating environment.











 Specifications    [ Edit | History ] - by ggogeta @May 10, 2007
Drive Performance  
     Buffer: 16 MB
     Maximum External Data Transfer Rate: 300 MBps (2.3 Gbps)
     Rotational Speed: 7200 rpm
General Information  
     Brand Name: WD
     Manufacturer: Western Digital Corporation
     Manufacturer Part Number: WD5000AAKS
     Manufacturer Website Address: www.wdc.com
     Package Type: Bulk
     Product Line: Caviar Blue
     Product Model: WD5000AAKS
     Product Name: Caviar Blue WD5000AAKS Hard Drive
     Product Type: Hard Drive
Interfaces/Ports  
     Drive Interface: SATA
     Drive Interface Standard: SATA/300
     SATA Pin: 7-pin
Physical Characteristics  
     Depth: 147.0 mm
     Drive Type: Internal
     Drive Width: 3.5"
     Height: 26.1 mm
     Weight (Approximate): 630.5 g
     Width: 101.6 mm
Technical Information  
     Storage Capacity: 500 GB
Warranty  
     Limited Warranty: 2 Year

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Messages about Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB SATA2 7200RPM 16MB 8.9MS 3.5IN NCQ Hard Drive OEM 3YR MFR Warranty

These will not work in Raid (john m- Jan 27, 11, 13 Replies) Read this message
WD5000AAKS-00TMA0 Controller Replacement (zend0j0- Nov 07, 10, 2 Replies) Read this message
current benchmarks? (lsi- Sep 12, 10, 0 Replies) Read this message
Drive not being recognized? (Earl_G- Sep 12, 10, 2 Replies) Read this message
Anyone getting Silver ones instead of Black ones ! (ConcentratE- Jun 03, 10, 16 Replies) Read this message
Difference between WD green blue black ect drives (skippels_C- Mar 25, 10, 1 Replies) Read this message
What is the platter size of the WD Blue 500GB (Andy_C- Mar 05, 10, 1 Replies) Read this message
It makes some noises (maldini- Jan 09, 09, 9 Replies) Read this message
WD 500GB DIEING???? (aroundtheworld- Oct 29, 08, 2 Replies) Read this message
Is this drive really no good? (SWC_Ant- Aug 24, 08, 5 Replies) Read this message
Changing C Drive (transient- Aug 11, 08, 7 Replies) Read this message
Consistency Checking... (Alfred_C- Jul 30, 08, 2 Replies) Read this message
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URL: http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/product/350596/review/wd_caviar_blue_50
Comment:
Posted by: [BF2] DigitalNinja @09/15/10
URL: http://www.tweakforce.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=148
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Posted by: [BF2] DigitalNinja @09/15/10
URL: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/500gb-hdd-disk,2150-5.html
Comment:
Posted by: [BF2] DigitalNinja @09/15/10
URL: http://www.hothardware.com/articles/Western_Digital_WD5000KS_500GB_SAT
Comment: Western Digital definitely has a relative speed demon on its hands with the WD5000KS. While it can't keep up with the company's Raptor, it can definitely win most battles against competing high-capacity hard drives.
Posted by: RAZE @11/09/07
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SWAG REview
06/05/12
Experience: 1 Months
This item is really good good quality good price worth it (Read More)

Eric_T
02/23/11
Experience: 3 Months
 Verified Owner
It's a decent drive for everyday use, not too loud (compared to my other parts at least!)

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Spartan812
02/09/11
Experience: 3 Weeks
Great little hard drive for everyday use. Western Digital is always been a leading hard drive manufacturer which I have never had a problem with. Their drives are well build. The price of under $40 is well worth this drive. (Read More)

Andrew_L
01/13/11
Experience: 2 Months
 Verified Owner
good drive for a budget build, for regular use computer. (Read More)

Elie Cassat
01/01/11
Experience: 10 Days
 Verified Owner
Nothing special here. Just a nice cheap HDD. (Read More)

Ryan_K
12/09/10
Experience: 1 Months
 Verified Owner
Faster than the WD Green drives. Its a great buy if you don't need terabytes of storage. Solid drive for a small system. (Read More)

Andrew_J
11/28/10
Experience: 3 Months
Might have been an excellent drive back in the day, but for the price now it is not as good as its competitors (Read More)

andre_b
11/17/10
Experience: 4 Months
 Verified Owner
Decent speeds affordable storage. Price is close to smaller drives but do offer more storage . A bit slow for a system drive with window 7. Good overall performances. (Read More)

Ben_L
11/06/10
Experience: 4 Days
 Verified Owner
i love western digital hd's, but this kinda disapointed me, everything about it is great, fast, quiet, seems to be very cool, not much heat came off it, but as i use my pc more and more, there was this hummm, not very audible, but can almost feel it, the drive gave off lots of vibrations, the disc spinning must have cause the vibrations, either way i took it back out and used my old samsung 250gb drive, and just used this 500gb as external drive storage (Read More)

Sylvain_P
11/03/10
Experience: 3 Months
i use this harddisk on a budget build. it's a good harddisk for the price. you can't make a mistake when you buy a western caviar hd. i didn't buy it on ncix at this time but it's clearly less expensive here now..! next time i will buy it here! i recommend this product to everyones who is on a low budget build!! (Read More)


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 Product Warranty
First 30 days limited warranty through NCIX.com. The remainder of the two year warranty is provided directly by the manufacturer.

Warranty length may vary per specific model.  Western Digital Raptor and Caviar RE series enterprise drives are covered by a 5 year warranty. Caviar and Caviar Blue & Green desktop drives are covered by a 2 year warranty for OEM drives, and a 1 year warranty for Retail.

       

Warranty coverage for drives is covered by NCIX for the first thirty (30) days with the remainder of the warranty covered by Western Digital.

       

Western Digital warranty policy by model:

http://support.wdc.com/warranty/policy.asp

       
       
       
       
       

Product

Product Designator

Component Drive1

Retail Kit

Enterprise Drives:

 

 

 

WD Raptor, WD RE, WD RE2, WD RE2-GP, WD RE3, WD RE4, WD RE4-GP, WD VelociRaptor, WD RE SAS

GD, SD, SB, YD, YR, YS, ADFD, ADFS, ABPS, AYPS, AYYS, ABYS, FYYS, FBYX, ABYX, FYPS, GLFS, BLFS, HLFS, HLHX, BLHX, FYYG

5-year

5-year

WD S25 SAS Hard Drive

BKFG, BKHG, BKFF

5-year

N/A

Desktop Drives:

 

 

 

WD Caviar Black

AAEX, AALS, FAEX, FAES, FALS, FASS

5-year

5-year

WD Caviar Blue (WD Caviar, WD Caviar SE, WD Caviar SE16)

BB, LB, JB, PB, JD, JS, KS, KD, KS, ABKS, AABS, AAJS, AAKS, AABB, AAJB, AAKB, AAKX, AALX, EALX

3-year

3-year

WD Caviar Blue

WDBAAV, WDBAAW, WDBAAX

3-year

2-year

WD Raptor X

AHFD

5-year

5-year

WD Caviar Green (WD Caviar GP)

EACS, EADS, AACS, AADS, EARS

3-year

3-year

WD Caviar Green

WDBAAY

3-year

2-year

Mobile Drives:

 

 

 

WD Scorpio Black

BPKT, BEKT, BJKT

5-year

5-year

WD Scorpio Blue

VE, UE, BEAS, BEVS, BEVE, BEVT, KEVT, TEVT, BPVT

2-year

3-year

WD Scorpio Blue

WDBABA, WDBABB, WDBABC

2-year

2-year

CE Drives:

 

 

 

WD AV, WD AV-GP, WD AV-25 AV

AVBS, AVJS, AVBB, AVJB, EVCS, EURS, AVCS, AVVS, BUDT, EVVS

3-year

3-year

External Drives:

 

 

 

WD ShareSpace™

WDA4NC

N/A

3-year

My Book Studio, My Passport Elite, My Passport Studio

WDH1Q, WDML, WDMT, WDMS

N/A

5-year

My Book Mirror, My Book Pro, My Book Pro II, My Book World, My Book World II, My Book Studio II, My Book Home, My Book Office, My Book Elite, My Book Studio, My Book Studio LX, My Book Live

WDH2U, WDG1T, WDG2TP, WDG1NC, WDH1NC, WDG2NC, WDH2NC, WDH2Q, WDH1CS, WDH1B, WDBAAH, WDBAAJ, WDBC3G, WDBACH, WDBACGxxxxHCH

N/A

3-year

WD Elements SE, WD Elements, WD Elements Portable, My Book Essential, My Book Mac Edition, My Book Premium, My Book Premium ES, My Book Premium II, Dual-Option Media Center, Dual-Option Combo, Dual-Option USB, NetCenter, Lighted Combo, Extreme Lighted Combo, USB, Combo, FireWire

WDBABV, WDE1U, WDE1MS, WDBAAR, WDG1U, WDH1U, WDG1C, WDG1SU, WDG2T, WDXUL, WDXF, WDXUB, WDXB, WDXE, WDXC

N/A

1-year

My Book Essential, My Book for Mac, My Book 3.0

WDBAAF, WDBACW, WDBAAG, WDBAAK, WDBABP

N/A

2-year

WD Passport Pocket Drive

WDXMM

N/A

1-year

WD Passport (all colors)

WDXML, WDXMS, WDXMC, WDXMSA, WDXSMB, WDXSMC, WDXMSE

N/A

3-year

My Passport Essential, My Passport for Mac, My Passport Elite, My Passport Studio

WDME, WDMEA, WDBAAC, WDBAAE

N/A

3-year

My Passport Essential, My Passport Essential SE, My Passport for Mac, My Passport AV, My Passport SE for Mac, My Passport Studio

WDBAAA, WDBACY, WDBABM, WDBAAB, WDBBXV, WDBL1D, WDBABS, WDBABW, WDBK8A, WDBALG

N/A

2-year

Home Entertainment:

 

 

 

My DVR Expander eSATA Edition, My DVR Expander USB Edition, WD TV, WD TV Live, WD TV Live Plusk, WD TV Live Hub

WDG1S, WDH1S, WDAV, WDBAAN, WDBABX, WDBABZ, WDBACA

N/A

1-year

My Book AV DVR Expander

WDBABT

N/A

2-year

Solid State Storage

 

 

 

WD SiliconEdge Blue Solid State Drives

2100

N/A

3-year

WD SiliconDrive N1x Solid State Drives

2500

N/A

5-year

 


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