WD Blue 2.5" 500GB PC Desktop SATA III Internal Hard Drive

WD Blue hard drives deliver solid performance and reliability while providing you with all of the space you need to hold enormous amounts of photos, videos and files. WD Blue hard drives are designed for use as primary drives in notebooks and external enclosures.

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.

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.

The Original
WD Blue drives are designed and manufactured with the proven technology found in WD's original award-winning hard drives.

WD Quality
Built to the high standards of quality and reliability of the WD brand, these drives offer the features and capacity ideal for your everyday computing needs.

Low Power Consumption
State-of-the-art seeking algorithms and advanced power management features help ensure low power consumption.

Upgrading Your Drive is Easy
Acronis True Image WD Edition Software, 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.

Compatible
Our 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 9.5mm bays.

Quiet
In a notebook drive, silence is golden. WD's exclusive noise reducing technologies yield some of the quietest 2.5-inch hard drives on the market.

As Much Storage As Possible For Your Laptop
With the highest possible aerial density inside the thinnest space, the WD Blue mobile hard drives add as much capacity as possible to your laptop PC.

State Of The Art Design
Designed with strong aluminum materials and a hard Tied-Shaft motor, which increases drive pinch strength as much as 30 percent. These features allow for a more rigid structure without degrading performance or increasing power consumption.

Tested in Our Lab for Compatibility
We test hundreds of systems, configurations and a multitude of platforms to give customers confidence in our drives.

Applications
WD Blue hard drives are tested and recommended for use in notebooks and external enclosures.