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Western Digital 500GB WD Black Performance Internal Hard Drive HDD - 7200 RPM, SATA 6 Gb/s, 64 MB Cache, 3.5" - WD5003AZEX

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Capacity: 500GB


Style: 64 MB Cache


Pattern Name: Hard Drive


Features

  • Desktop performance gaming hard drive
  • Performance storage available in up to 10TB* capacities | * As used for storage capacity, 1TB = one trillion bytes. Actual user capacity may be less depending on operating environment.
  • Designed for gamers, system builders, and creative professionals.
  • Western Digitals StableTrac and Dynamic Cache Technology increase reliability and optimize performance
  • An industry-leading 5-year limited warranty** | ** See official Western Digital website for warranty details.

Description

WD Black performance storage is designed to enhance your PC experience across heavier computing tasks whether you are a digital artist, video editor, photographer, or gamer. Available with an impressive 256 MB of DRAM cache on higher capacity models, the WD Black drive is optimized for drive performance so you can spend more time experiencing the things you love most. Enhance your PC’s performance even further when you combine a WD Black drive with an SSD for a dual drive configuration, allowing you to benefit from the additional caching of your operating system onto the SSD for increased performance. All together, the WD Black drive gives you the hard drive performance, capacity and an industry leading 5-year limited warranty for an inspiring three-in-one storage solution.


Standing screen display size: ‎3.5 Inches


Hard Drive: ‎500 GB Mechanical Hard Disk


Brand: ‎WD_BLACK


Series: ‎Black


Item model number: ‎WD5003AZEX


Hardware Platform: ‎PC


Item Weight: ‎1.61 pounds


Product Dimensions: ‎5.8 x 4 x 1 inches


Item Dimensions LxWxH: ‎5.8 x 4 x 1 inches


Color: ‎3.5" Desktop HDD


Flash Memory Size: ‎500 GB


Hard Drive Interface: ‎Serial ATA-600


Hard Drive Rotational Speed: ‎7200 RPM


Manufacturer: ‎Western Digital


Language: ‎English


Country of Origin: ‎Thailand


Is Discontinued By Manufacturer: ‎No


Date First Available: ‎June 7, 2012


Domestic Shipping: Item can be shipped within U.S.


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    • Packed OK. It Survived The Amazon Driver
Capacity: 8TB Style: 128 MB Cache Pattern Name: Hard Drive
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This is for the 8TB WD Black hard disk. I have used Seagate, Hitachi, and Western Digital hard disks. They all last a long time for me. I have no problem with any of these brands. One thing good about WD hard disks is that you can tell the hard disk is about to fail. WD hard disks will make noises, and start to run slow. So, you know it is time to replace it. On the other hand, Seagate will just fail in an instant. No noise no nothing. However, if Hitachi is still in business, my first choice is a Hitachi. I have a bunch of Green and Blue. This is my 2rd WD Black. I have a 4TB for 6 years and it is still working without any problem. The 4TB is loud. This 8TB is even louder. If you are in a quiet office, do not get the WD Black. Get a Seagate instead. I have no problem cloning my 4TB to the 8TB with the Acronis WD Edition software. The Amazon package is ok. The hard disk is in the original thick OEM cardboard box with the 2 black plastic packing materials. I tried to catch the Amazon driver to let him hand over the box. But I was too late. He already threw the box on the ground. I have the hard disk for a month now. Looks like it survived the Amazon driver. Running Crystal Disk Mark 6, the 8TB is faster than the 6-year-old 4TB. 223/214 vs 138/131. I have some Crystal Disk Mark screenshots with my Samsung 850 EVO for comparison. Hope this help. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 17, 2022 by Amazon Customer
    • Video Review of Sound and Speed Test (170MB/s)! (Review Updated)
Capacity: 2TB Style: 64 MB Cache Pattern Name: Hard Drive
The media could not be loaded. I decided to replace my primary drive in my Windows 7 PC with a 500GB SSD. I had two 1TB factory hard drives currently in my machine and I was using the SSD as my C Drive. To go along with the SSD, I wanted to replace my old factory drives with a single 2TB drive so that I had equivalent space. I had recently purchased two Seagate 2TB Drives (ST2000DM001 - Fast 2 Platter Version) for external backups and media drives. They were fine, but I was looking for a more reliable drive for my internal drive that would get a lot more use. I decided on the WD Black 2TB and opted for the newest WD2003FZEX model. Upon reading several reviews, it seemed like the drive was fast and overall a good drive, but there was a question of how noisy the drive was. I decided to test out the drive in a USB 3.0 Docking Station to see how fast and how loud it was. Attached to this review is a video of my results. In the video, I am running a speed test and recording the sound with my iPhone 5 to see how loud the drive is. During the speed test, which has sequential and random tests, I move the phone closer to the drive to be able to hear the sound better. At the end of the video, I show two CrystalDiskMark speed tests. The test on the left is of the Seagate 2TB Drive and the test on the right is of the WD Black 2TB Drive. Speed Test Results - As you can see from the video, the speed of the WD Black Drive (test on the right) is pretty amazing with results of 170MB/s from a USB 3.0 Hard Drive Dock using a 500MB test size. When compared to the cheaper Seagate Drive (test on the left with a respectable 148MB/s), the speed is significantly faster, so you really get what you pay for in this case. Sound Test Results - I didn't experience any abnormally loud sounds from the drive sitting right on my desk. You could hear it, but it was not any louder than the any other drives that I have used. When I get close to the hard drive with my phone, it gets a lot louder as you would expect, but I am essentially about 1 inch from the drive at that point. Once I put this drive into my computer case, I doubt I will hear it at all. In my opinion, while this drive isn't silent, it is no louder than any other 7200 RPM drives that I have used, and the sound is more than acceptable for the extremely fast speeds. Overall, I am extremely impressed with this drive based on my initial tests. The speed is amazing and the sound is just fine. That, along with the 5 year warranty, makes this drive worth the extra money in my opinion for a primary drive that will get a lot of use. As with all hard drives, reliability and longevity is a concern, so I will update this review as I continue to use the drive. ========================= UPDATE (12/27/2013): So after Christmas, I finally got around to doing my system reconfiguration, which consisted of replacing my two factory installed Seagate 1TB hard drives with a Crucial M500 480GB SSD and this WD Black 2TB WD2003FZEX Hard Drive. Hardware installation was a snap. After I installed the drives and installed Windows 7 via an HP Recovery Disc, I copied all of my media and data to the WD Black drive and got really fast speeds and no problems when transferring well over a terabyte of data. I have an older HP Elite PC with an SATA 3GB/s interface, so I am not getting the fastest speeds, but a speed test of the WD Black Drive shows 137MB/s while installed internally. The previous test was via USB 3.0 which apparently has a faster throughput on my machine. Just to give you an idea of the speed increase that I am experiencing, my old factory installed Seagate drives had speed test results in the 80-90MB/s range, so I'm easily getting a 50-60% speed increase. On top of that, my Crucial SSD is showing 270MB/s speeds and 30 second Windows 7 reboots. Pretty amazing. In addition, the sound of the hard drive seems completely normal to me now that it is installed in my computer case. If you are interested in injecting some new life in an older Windows 7 PC, I highly recommend this combination of SSD and WD Black drives. One tip that took me about 3 hours and a lot of pain and suffering to figure out. If you use a factory recovery disc to install your operating system onto your new hard drive and after install, you can't get Windows Update or Microsoft Security Essentials to work, you may need to update your hard drive controller driver like I did. I searched high and low to figure out how to fix this and even did a Windows 7 reinstall. There were a ton of people having the same problem and after several frustrating hours, I figured out that I needed to update my Intel Rapid Storage Technology drivers. Five minutes later, everything is working perfectly. What a huge waste of time. So if you are having problems like I did, give that a try and hopefully save yourself some headaches. Long story short, this is a great drive so far and I am extremely happy with its performance and pairing it with an SSD. Highly Recommended! ========================= UPDATE (01/26/2014): One month using this setup and I love it. The WD Black drive is a great workhorse drive that I do most of my saving to while my Windows 7 OS runs off of the Crucial SSD. Everything is really fast and reboots that used to be a chore are no hassle at all anymore. I wish I would have done this a long time ago, but now that SSD prices are dropping, I would do it again in a heartbeat. If you are looking for a nice boost of speed, I recommend getting a good SSD and pairing it with this WD Black Hard Drive. Just make sure to backup, backup, backup. While these hard drives are great so far, I trust no hard drive and have redundant backups locally on an always attached USB 3.0 Hard Drive Docking Station, plus a second copy that I update occasionally in a fire safe, and an Online Backup solution using CrashPlan. ========================= UPDATE (05/08/2014): I have now been using this SSD with WD Black Drive configuration for about four months now and everything is still working perfectly. The speeds continue to be great and I have had no reliability issues with either drive. I churn Terabytes of media files through this WD Black Drive and it handles everything without a hitch. It really makes a great workhorse drive to combine with an SSD. I really love the setup and I doubt I would ever go back to a non-SSD configuration ever again, especially considering the continual price declines of SSD's. It is still early in the life of the drives, but so far, so good. Still Highly Recommended! ========================= UPDATE (11/08/2014): Just a quick update. I have been using this 2TB WD Black Drive and this setup with the SSD for 10 months now and everything is still working perfectly. No complaints and still loving it. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 7, 2013 by Dre
    • Great for bulk storage!
Capacity: 6TB Style: 256 MB Cache Pattern Name: Hard Drive
It's amazing how cheap you can get high capacity hard drives nowadays. I love the high storage capabilities while not being extremely slow like many hard drives. Dont get me wrong a ssd is several times faster but the prices of high storage ssd's are just depressing. Until you can get a reasonable priced high capacity ssd, this is perfect for bulk storage on a main device, it is fast enough to game and do daily tasks though I wouldn't recommend using this as your primary drive but rather a secondary with a ssd for booting and important files and this drive for anything else ... show more
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 11, 2022 by Christopher L
    • Great Drive
Capacity: 10TB Style: 256 MB Cache Pattern Name: Hard Drive
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I've been a WD fan for many years and in my latest build I decided to go with WD_Black SSD's and HDD's. So far this drive is shaping up to be a winner just like all my previous WD SSD's. I may have to go for another 10TB drive to bring my total system capacity up to 24TB. I have a large Steam library, lots of raw photos, and a lot of 6K video from drones and cameras. I like to keep copies on my NAS as well as my PC. If you're looking for a great storage drive, you'll love this one! My only complaint is that the drive isn't as pictured with the large black WD_Black sticker. *Update 11/15* Unfortunately this drive has an issue that prevents it from being suitable for me. It constantly makes a whirring/whining noise. It took me a while to notice it due to the background HVAC noise where it’s located. And then once I did it took a bit to figure out that it was the hard drive. A quick online search showed that this is a common complaint. So I’ve initiated a return. Back to the IronWolf NAS drives. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 29, 2022 by CJ

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