Western Digital Blue 500GB Laptop Hard Drive (WD5000LPCX)

WD BLUE 500GB LAPTOP HARD DRIVE

Built to WD?? high standards of quality and reliability, WD Blue mobile hard drives offer the features that are ideal for your everyday mobile computing needs.

A Modern Classic

Designed and manufactured with technology found in WD?? original award-winning desktop and mobile hard drives.

Every Drive Has A Purpose

Available in a broad range of entry-level capacities, cache sizes, form factors and interfaces.

Tested In Our Lab For Compatibility

We test hundreds of systems, configurations, and a multitude of platforms to give customers confidence in our drives.

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.

Recommended Use

WD Blue storage is tested and recommended for use in notebooks, external enclosures and certain industrial applications.

Easy Backup And Upgrade

Acronis True Image WD Edition software, available as a free download, can clone drives and backup your operating system, applications, settings and all of your data.

The WD Advantage

WD puts our products through extensive Functional Integrity Testing (F.I.T.) prior to any product launch. This testing ensures our products consistently meet the highest quality and reliability standards of the WD brand. WD also has a detailed Knowledge Base with more than 1,000 helpful articles as well as helpful software and utilities. Our customer support lines have longer operational hours to ensure you get the help you need when you need it. Our toll-free customer support lines are here to help or you can access our WD Support site for additional details.

FEATURES:

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.

WD Quality

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

The Original

WD Blue 2.5-inch PC Hard Drives are designed and manufactured with the proven technology found in WD?? original award-winning hard drives.

Compatible

The 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 9.5 mm bays.

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.

Low Power Consumption

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

Quiet

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

Upgrading Your Drive is Easy

Acronis??True Image??WD Edition cloning software is available as a free download on the WD Support site enabling you to copy all your data to a new drive. You don?? have to reinstall your operating system to get all the benefits of a new drive.

Enhanced Availability (EA)??or 24×7 Access to Data

Western Digital provides enhanced availability models of WD Blue 2.5-inch PC Hard Drives (WD5000LPCX) that deliver 24×7 access to information for data-intensive applications requiring round-the-clock operation. WD Blue EA models support the stringent demands of ??lways-on??applications in lower-transaction environments and come with a 2-year standard warranty.