WD Caviar Blue

SATA/PATA Hard Drives Rock solid performance always gives you confidence

High quality Solid performance Great value

WD Caviar Blue hard drives are available with either a SATA or PATA interface and offer a variety of cache sizes. These drives deliver solid performance and reliability making them a perfect solution for family and business computing.

WD Caviar Blue
SATA/PATA Hard Drives

Product Features
The original More options Low power consumption Tested for compatibility

WD Blue drives are designed and manufactured with the proven technology found in WDs original award-winning desktop hard drives.

These drives are available in a broad range of capacities, cache sizes and interfaces so you can be sure theres a drive thats the perfect fit for your system, in more ways than one.

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

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.

WD quality

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

NoTouch ramp load technology

SATA or PATA interface

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.

While SATA has become the industry standard interface, WD continues to manufacture desktop drives with a PATA interface for unique or legacy systems.

Product Specifications
Interface SATA 6 Gb/s SATA 3 Gb/s PATA 100 MB/s Models SATA 6 Gb/s WD2500AAKX WD3200AAKX WD5000AAKX WD7500AALX WD7500AZEX WD10EALX WD10EZEX Form factor 3.5-inch Spin speed 7200 RPM Cache 8 MB (JB models) 16 MB (KS and KX models) 32 MB (LX models) 64 MB (EX models) Limited Warranty 2 years (Worldwide) 3 years (China)

SATA 3 Gb/s WD5000AAKS

PATA 100 MB/s WD800AAJB WD1600AAJB WD2500AAJB WD3200AAJB

Capacities 80 GB 160 GB 250 GB 320 GB 500 GB 750 GB 1 TB

WD Caviar Blue is part of WDs complete lineup of desktop hard drives.

WD Caviar Blue

SATA/PATA Hard Drives Value and reliability for everyday computing.

WD Caviar Green

SATA Hard Drives

WD Caviar Black

SATA Hard Drives

Cool, quiet, eco-friendly.

Maximum performance for power computing.

Western Digital, WD, the WD logo, Put Your Life On It and WD Caviar are registered trademarks in the U.S. and other countries; and WD Caviar Blue, WD Caviar Green, WD Caviar Black, FIT Lab, NoTouch, and IntelliSeek are trademarks of Western Digital Technologies, Inc. Other marks may be mentioned herein that belong to other companies. Pictures shown may vary from actual product. Not all products may be available in all regions of the world. All product and packaging specifications subject to change without notice. 2012 Western Digital Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. 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 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. 2178-771116-A08 June 2012