Low power consumption - State-of-the-art seeking algorithms and advanced power management features ensure low power consumption and long battery life.
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.
SATA or PATA interface - While SATA has become the industry standard interface, WD continues to manufacture mobile drives with a PATA interface for unique or legacy systems.
Tested for compatibility - We perform tests on hundreds of systems and a multitude of platforms in our FIT Lab to give our customers confidence that our drives will work in their systems.
The WD advantage - WD puts our products through extensive Functional Integrity Testing (F.I.T.) prior to any product launch. On average, each new product goes through 600,000 hours of testing. WD also has a detailed Knowledge Base with more than 1,000 helpful articles. You can also call toll-free support 7 days per week in the U.S. and Canada. See the WD Support site for full details.
Upgrading your drive is easy - WD Acronis TrueImage, available as a free download on the WD Support site, enables you to copy all your data to a new drive so you don't have to reinstall your operating system to get all the benefits of a new drive.
WD-certified packaging - All WD drives purchased from Amazon.com are shipped in WD-certified hard drive packaging. It is designed and fully tested to provide WD products with the highest of safety while in transit. With WD-certified packaging, you can rest assured that your WD hard drive will arrive safely, fully protected, in a non-descript, easy-open package.
Compatibility
Works with Windows 7/Vista/XP/2000, Mac and Linux operating systems.
Recommended use - WD Blue hard drives are tested and recommended for use in PCs, industrial applications, notebooks, netbooks and external enclosures.
Features at a glance
2.5-inch Internal Comparison Chart | |||
WD Blue | WD Green | WD Black | |
Solid performance and reliability for everyday computing. | Cool, quiet operation for efficient eco-conscious computing. | Maximum performance for power computing. | |
Ideal for | Notebook computers, netbooks and external enclosures. | Custom-built enclosures and other applications that require cool and quiet operation. | Notebook computers. |
Capacity range | 80 GB – 1 TB | 1.5 TB – 2 TB | 160 GB – 750 GB |
Interface | SATA 3 Gb/s PATA 100 MB/s | SATA 3 Gb/s | SATA 3 Gb/s |
Form factor | 2.5-inch | 2.5-inch | 2.5-inch |
Cache | 8 MB | 8 MB | 16 MB |
Highest performance | |||
Highest capacity | |||
Everyday computing | |||
Photo/video editing | |||
Notebook computers | |||
External enclosures |
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