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WD Caviar Black drives combine a high performance electronicsarchitecture with a rock solid mechanical architecture to deliver theperfect storage solution for your fully-loaded PC or maxed out gamingmachine. Cool drive operation, no-touch head technology, leading-edgevibration protection ensure enhanced reliability. And we back it all up witha 5-year warranty.

Product Features

High Performance Electronics Architecture

Dual processor Twice the processing power to maximize performance.

32 MB cache Bigger, faster cache means faster performance.

Rock Solid Mechanical Architecture

StableTrac The motor shaft is secured at both ends to reduce system-induced vibration and stabilize platters for accurate tracking, during read andwrite operations (750 GB and 1 TB models only).

NoTouch ramp load technology The recording head never touches thedisk media ensuring significantly less wear to the recording head and media, as

well as better drive protection in transit. Perpendicular Magnetic Recording (PMR) WD Caviar Black drives

employ PMR technology to achieve even greater areal density.

Compatible We perform tests on hundreds of systems and a multitude ofplatforms in our FIT Lab and Mobile Compatibility Lab to give our customersconfidence that our drives will work in their systems.

5 Year Warranty

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

SATA 3 Gb/s

7200 RPM

WD1001FALSWD7501AALSWD6401AALSWD5001AALS

Note: Not all productsmay be available in all

regions of the world.

500 GB to 1 TB

3.5-inch/1-inch

WD Caviar BlackDesktop Hard Drives

Maximum performancefor power computing

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Specifications1 1 TB 750 GB 640 GB 500 GBModel number WD1001FALS WD7501AALS WD6401AALS WD5001AALSInterface SATA 3 Gb/s SATA 3 Gb/s SATA 3 Gb/s SATA 3 Gb/sFormatted capacity 1,000,204 MB 750,156 MB 640,135 MB 500,107 MBUser sectors per drive 1,953,525,169 1,465,149,168 1,250,263,728 976,773,168LBA support Yes Yes Yes YesSATA latching connector Yes Yes Yes YesActuator latch/auto park Yes Yes Yes YesForm factor 3.5-inch 3.5-inch 3.5-inch 3.5-inchRoHS compliant2 Yes Yes Yes YesPerformance

Data transfer rate (max)Buffer to hostHost to/from drive (sustained)

3 Gb/s106 MB/s

3 Gb/s106 MB/s

3 Gb/s113 MB/s

3 Gb/s113 MB/s

Cache (MB) 32 32 32 32

Average latency (ms) 4.2 4.2 4.2 4.2Rotational speed (RPM) 7200 7200 7200 7200Average drive ready time (sec) 13 13 11 11Configuration/Organization

Heads/disks 6/3 5/3 4/2 4/2Bytes per sector (STD) 512 512 512 512Reliability/Data Integrity

Load/unload cycles3 300,000 300,000 300,000 300,000Non-recoverable read errors per bits read