Capacity:500 GB Product Description WD VelociRaptor drives offer an unmatched combination of high performance and high reliability, perfect for workstations, high-end video and photo editing, low-end servers and performance enthusiast's systems

Comes with a 3.5-inch mounting frame for easy installation into today's high-performance systems and chassis

Ultra fast - Designed around a 10,000 RPM spin speed, these SATA 6 Gb/s drives include a 64 MB cache and deliver the ultimate performance for photo and video editing

Rock-solid reliability - With 1.4 million hours MTBF, these drives have the highest available reliability rating on a high capacity SATA drive

High capacity - State-of-the-art technology delivers a balance of high performance and high capacity perfect for data-intensive workloads that require large amounts of storage such as video editing, 3D rendering and scientific modeling

Ultra-cool operation – Consumes less idle power and uses similar active power as the previous generation WD VelociRaptor, while offering higher capacity and performance

Advanced Format (AF) – Technology adopted by WD and other drive manufacturers as one of multiple ways to continue growing hard drive capacities

AF is a more efficient media format that enables increased areal densities

IcePack mounting frame - The 2.5-inch hard drive is enclosed in a backplane-ready 3.5-inch mounting frame with a built-in heat sink that keeps this powerful little drive extra cool when installed in high-performance desktop chassis

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

Pre-emptive Wear Leveling (PWL) – Ensures reliability for applications that perform a high incidence of read/write operations at the same physical location on the disk

Rotary Acceleration Feed Forward (RAFF) – Optimizes operation and performance when the drives are used in vibration-prone, multi-drive chassis

Environmentally Conscious – In addition to being RoHS compliant, this generation of WD VelociRaptor also provides a halogen-free design. From the Manufacturer WD VelociRaptor Hard Drives – High-performance storage for power users

With its 10,000 RPM platter design, WD VelociRaptor hard drives deliver high sequential read/write performance, low access times and ultra-fast random read/write performance making them the perfect choice for workstations, high-end video and photo editing, low-end servers and performance enthusiast's systems

Why you should choose WD VelociRaptor drives: WD VelociRaptor delivers an unmatched combination of performance, capacity and reliability

These drives crush the competition in the PCMark Vantage benchmark for video editing, (a hard drive standard for measuring performance)

Ultra fast

Designed around a 10,000 RPM spin speed, these SATA 6 Gb/s drives include a 64 MB cache and deliver the ultimate performance for photo and video editing

Rock-solid reliability

With 1.4 million hours MTBF, these drives have the highest available reliability rating on a high capacity SATA drive

High capacity

State-of-the-art technology delivers a balance of high performance and high capacity perfect for data-intensive workloads that require large amounts of storage such as video editing, 3D rendering and scientific modeling

Ideal for: High-performance computing 3D rendering Digital content creation and editing Scientific computing Image management Features: Ultra-cool operation - Consumes less idle power and uses similar active power as the previous generation WD VelociRaptor, while offering higher capacity and performance

Advanced Format (AF)- Technology adopted by WD and other drive manufacturers as one of multiple ways to continue growing hard drive capacities

AF is a more efficient media format that enables increased areal densities

IcePack mounting frame - The 2.5-inch hard drive is enclosed in a backplane-ready 3.5-inch mounting frame with a built-in heat sink that keeps this powerful little drive extra cool when installed in high-performance desktop chassis

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

Pre-emptive Wear Leveling (PWL) - Ensures reliability for applications that perform a high incidence of read/write operations at the same physical location on the disk

Rotary Acceleration Feed Forward (RAFF™)- Optimizes operation and performance when the drives are used in vibration-prone, multi-drive chassis

Environmentally conscious - In addition to being RoHS compliant, this generation of WD VelociRaptor also provides a halogen-free design

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

Note: Bare drive does not include any cables or mounting hardware

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

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 an environmentally-friendly, non-descript, easy-open package

Compatibility Works with Windows, Windows server, Linux and Mac OS

Features at a glance 500 GB high-performance storage SATA 6 Gb/s interface 64 MB cache IcePack mounting frame You might also consider: 3.5-inch InternalComparison Chart WD Blue WD Green WD Black WD Red WD VelociRaptor Solid performanceand reliability for everyday computing

Cool, quiet operationfor efficient eco-conscious computing

Maximum performancefor power computing

The right drive for homeor small office NAS

High-performance storage for power users

Ideal for Family and business computing

Desktop PCs, secondary storage and external drives

Photo and video editing, and maxed out gaming systems

Specifically designed and tested for small office and home office, 1-5 bay NAS systems

Performance enthusiast systems and workstations

Capacity range 80 GB – 1 TB 320 GB – 3 TB 500 GB – 2 TB 1 TB – 3 TB 250 GB – 1 TB Interface SATA 6 Gb/sPATA 100 MB/s SATA 6 Gb/s SATA 6 Gb/s SATA 6 Gb/s SATA 6 Gb/s Form factor 3.5-inch 3.5-inch 3.5-inch 3.5-inch 3.5-inch Cache 8 MB – 64 MB 64 MB 32 MB – 64 MB 64 MB 64 MB Limited warranty 2-year 2-year 5-year 3-year 5-year Highest capacity Highest performance Photo/video editing Network Storage Systems