WD BLUE™

Desktop Hard Drives

WD Blue hard drives deliver solid performance and reliability

while providing you with all the space you need to hold an

enormous amount of photos, videos and les. These drives

are designed for use as primary drives in desktops PCs,

external enclosures and for certain industrial applications.

INTERFACE
SATA 6 Gb/s
PATA 100 MB/s
WIDTH/HEIGHT
3.5-inch/1-inch
ROTATIONAL SPEED
7200 RPM
CAPACITIES
80 GB to 1 TB
MODEL NUMBERS
SATA 6 Gb/s PATA 100 MB/s
WD10EZEX WD5000AAKX WD3200AAJB
WD10EALX WD3200AAKX WD2500AAJB
WD7500AZEX WD2500AAKX WD1600AAJB
WD800AAJB
Note: Not all products may
be available in all regions of
the world.

Product Features

The original
WD Blue drives are designed and
manufactured with the proven
technology found in WD’s original
award-winning desktop and mobile
hard drives.
WD quality
Built to the highest standards of
quality and reliability, these drives
offer the features and capacity ideal
for your everyday computing needs.
More options
These drives are available in a broad
range of capacities and interfaces so
you can be sure there’s a drive that’s
the perfect t for your system, in
more ways than one.
SATA or PATA interface
While SATA has become the industry
standard interface, WD continues to
manufacture desktop drives with a
PATA interface for unique or legacy
systems.
NoTouch™ ramp load technology
The recording head never touches
the disk media ensuring signicantly
less wear to the recording head
and media as well as better drive
protection in transit.
Upgrading your drive is easy
Acronis® True Image™ WD Edition
Software, 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 benets of a new drive.

Applications

WD Blue hard drives are tested and recommended for use in desktop PCs, industrial applications, and external enclosures. Desktop drives are not recommended
for use in RAID environments. Please consider using WD Red™ hard drives for home and small ofce 1-5 bay NAS systems and WD enterprise hard drives for
rackmount and NAS systems with more than 5 bays.*
* WD hard drives are designed and tested for use in specic applications and environments. This ensures that your hard drive is compatible with and functions properly in your application. Our
hard drives are warranted against defects in materials and workmanship in the system for which they were designed. Use in systems other than for what the hard drive was designed could
result in compatibility problems that affect proper function, unrelated to material and/or workmanship defects. For best results, be sure to select the appropriate product for your application
by consulting our product spec sheets on our website at www.wd.com or by calling our customer support line where we would be happy to help you through the selection process.

The WD Advantage

WD puts our products through extensive Functional Integrity Testing (F.I.T.) prior to any product launch. This testing ensures our products consistently meet the
highest quality and reliability standards of the WD brand. WD also has a detailed Knowledge Base with more than 1,000 helpful articles as well as helpful software
and utilities. Our customer support lines have longer operational hours to ensure you get the help you need when you need it. Our toll-free customer support lines
are here to help or you can access our WD Support site for additional details.