WD Caviar

®

Black

™

Desktop Hard Drives

WD Caviar Black drives combine a high performance electronics architecture with a rock solid mechanical architecture to deliver the perfect storage solution for your fully-loaded PC or maxed out gaming machine. Cool drive operation, no-touch head technology, leading-edge vibration protection ensure enhanced reliability.

INTERFACE

SATA 6 Gb/s

MODEL NUMBERS

WD2002FAEX

WD1502FAEX

WD1002FAEX

WD7502AAEX

WD5003AZEX

WD5002AALX

WIDTH/HEIGHT

3.5-inch/1-inch

ROTATIONAL SPEED

7200 RPM

CAPACITIES

500 GB to 2 TB

Note: Not all products may be available in all regions of the world.

Product Features

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Rock Solid Mechanical Architecture

Dual actuator technology

A head positioning system with two actuators that improves positional accuracy over the data track(s). The primary actuator provides coarse displacement using conventional electromagnetic actuator principles.

The secondary actuator uses a piezoelectric motor to fine tune the head positioning to a higher degree of accuracy. (2 TB and 1.5 TB models only)

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StableTrac™ — The motor shaft is secured at both ends to reduce system-induced vibration and stabilize platters for accurate tracking, during read and write operations. (2 TB and 1.5 TB models only)

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.

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High Performance Electronics

Architecture

Dual processor — Twice the processing power to maximize performance.

Colossal cache — Bigger, faster cache of up to 64 MB means faster performance.

Massive Capacity

WD Caviar Black SATA drives are available in capacities up to 2 TB.

Compatible

We perform tests on hundreds of systems and a multitude of platforms in our FIT Lab™ and Mobile

Compatibility Lab to give our customers confidence that our drives will work in their systems.

5-year limited warranty

Applications

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Power computing applications such as multimedia, video and photo editing, and maxed out gaming computers.

Desktop / Consumer RAID Environments - WD Caviar Black Hard Drives are tested and recommended for use in consumer-type RAID applications (RAID-0 /

RAID-1).

- Business Critical RAID Environments – WD Caviar Black Hard Drives are not recommended for and are not warranted for use in RAID environments utilizing Enterprise HBAs and/or expanders and in multi-bay chassis, as they are not designed for, nor tested in, these specific types of RAID applications. For all Business Critical RAID applications, please consider WD’s

Enterprise Hard Drives that are specifically designed with RAID-specific, time-limited error recovery (TLER), are tested extensively in 24x7 RAID applications, and include features like enhanced RAFF technology and thermal extended burn-in testing.

WD Caviar Black

Specifications

1

Model number

Interface

Formatted capacity

User sectors per drive

SATA latching connector

Form factor

RoHS compliant 2

Performance

Data transfer rate (max)

Buffer to host

Host to/from drive (sustained)

Cache (MB)

Rotational speed (RPM)

Reliability/Data Integrity

Load/unload cycles 3

Non-recoverable read errors per bits read

Limited warranty (years) 4

Power Management

Average power requirements (W)

Read/Write

Idle

Standby

Sleep

Environmental Specifications 5

Temperature (°C)

Operating

Non-operating

Shock (Gs)

Operating (2 ms, read)

Operating (2 ms, read/write)

Non-operating (2 ms)

Average acoustics (dBA) 6

Idle mode

Seek mode

Physical Dimensions

Height (in./mm, max)

Length (in./mm, max)

Width (in./mm, ± .01 in.)

Weight (lb./kg, ± 10%)

2 TB

WD2002FAEX

SATA 6 Gb/s

2,000,398 MB

3,907,029,168

Yes

3.5-inch

Yes

6 Gb/s

138 MB/s

64

7200

300,000

<1 in 10 14

5

10.7

8.2

1.3

1.3

0 to 60

-40 to 70

30

65

300

29

34

1.028/25.4

5.787/147

4/101.6

1.66/0.75

1.5 TB

WD1502FAEX

SATA 6 Gb/s

1,500,301 MB

2,930,277,168

Yes

3.5-inch

Yes

6 Gb/s

138 MB/s

64

7200

300,000

<1 in 10 14

5

10.7

8.2

1.3

1.3

0 to 60

-40 to 70

30

65

300

29

34

1.028/25.4

5.787/147

4/101.6

1.66/0.75

1 TB

WD1002FAEX

SATA 6 Gb/s

1,000,204 MB

1,953,525,169

Yes

3.5-inch

Yes

6 Gb/s

126 MB/s

64

7200

300,000

<1 in 10 14

5

6.8

6.1

0.7

0.7

0 to 60

-40 to 70

30

65

300

28

33

1.028/25.4

5.787/147

4/101.6

1.52/0.69

750 GB

WD7502AAEX

SATA 6 Gb/s

750,156 MB

1,465,149,168

Yes

3.5-inch

Yes

6 Gb/s

126 MB/s

64

7200

300,000

<1 in 10 14

5

6.8

6.1

0.7

0.7

0 to 60

-40 to 70

30

65

300

28

33

1.028/25.4

5.787/147

4/101.6

1.52/0.69

500 GB

WD5003AZEX

SATA 6 Gb/s

500,107 MB

976,773,168

Yes

3.5-inch

Yes

6 Gb/s

150 MB/s

64

7200

300,000

<1 in 10 14

5

6.8

6.1

0.8

0.8

0 to 60

-40 to 70

30

65

350

29

30

1.028/25.4

5.787/147

4/101.6

0.97/0.44

500 GB

WD5002AALX

SATA 6 Gb/s

500,107 MB

976,773,168

Yes

3.5-inch

Yes

6 Gb/s

126 MB/s

32

7200

300,000

<1 in 10 14

5

6.0

5.6

0.9

0.9

0 to 60

-40 to 70

30

65

350

29

30

1.028/25.4

5.787/147

4/101.6

0.97/0.44

1 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 buffer or cache, one megabyte (MB) = 1,048,576 bytes. 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. Effective maximum SATA 3 Gb/s and SATA 6 Gb/s transfer rates calculated according to the Serial ATA specification published by the SATA-IO organization as of the date of this specification sheet. Visit www.sata-io.org for details.

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WD hard drive products manufactured and sold worldwide after June 1, 2006, meet or exceed Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) compliance requirements as mandated by the RoHS Directive 2011/65/EU..

3 Controlled unload at ambient condition

4

The term of the limited warranty may vary by region. Visit http://support.wdc.com/warranty for details.

5

No non-recoverable errors during operating tests or after non-operating tests.

6

Sound power level.

WD Caviar Black is part of WD’s complete lineup of desktop hard drives.

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