WD Black™

PRODUCT BRIEF 2.5-INCH PC HARD DRIVE

WD Black 2.5-inch PC Hard Drives are designed for enthusiasts and creative pro-
fessionals looking for leading-edge performance. These 2.5-inch PC Hard Drives
are perfect for high-performance applications like photo and video editing,
gaming, and power PCs.

Great Things Come in Small Packages

WD Black 2.5-inch PC Hard Drives are designed to enhance your PC experience, whether
at home in your new all-in-one desktop, or on-the-go in your trusty notebook. With up to
1TB of storage running at 7200 RPM, you get an extremely fast high-capacity mobile hard
drive, offering the perfect storage solution for a digital artist, video editor, photographer,
or gamer. Backed by an industry leading 5-year limited warranty, WD Black 2.5-inch Hard
Drives combine performance and capacity with the reliability of a brand you can trust.

For Creative Professionals

Give yourself the room to bring your enormous digital portfolio wherever you’re at with
WD Black 2.5-inch PC Hard Drives. With up to 1TB of 7200 RPM-Class high-performance
storage, WD Black 2.5-inch Hard Drives give you the power to create while on the go, so
Product Highlights you can offload, edit, and shoot without fear of running out of space anytime soon.
• Specifically designed for small form factor PC’s,
laptops, and Mac computers
• Performance 2.5-inch hard drives available up to
For Gamers
1TB capacities WD Black 2.5-inch PC Hard Drives offer the perfect storage solution for your gaming rig.
• Designed for creative professionals, gamers, and WD Black 2.5-inch Hard Drives are purpose-built and tested to ensure they can handle
system builders the high-performance tasks you need. With up to 1TB of capacity, you get the space you
• An industry-leading 5-year limited warranty need for your game’s downloadable content, large cache sizes for fast load times, and
7200 RPM-Class drive for desktop-level performance.
INTERFACE MODEL NUMBERS
SATA 6 Gb/s WD10SPSX Industry Leading Warranty
WD5000LPSX
FORM FACTOR WD Black™ 2.5-inch PC Hard Drives are tested under more strenuous conditions over a
WD5000LPLX
2.5-inch WD3200LPLX longer period when compared to our standard hard drives. This comprehensive testing
WD2500LPLX ensures an overall quality benchmark for a stable, high performance storage solution
PERFORMANCE CLASS
7200 RPM-Class backed by an industry leading 5-year limited warranty.

CAPACITIES
250GB to 1TB

THE WESTERN DIGITAL ADVANTAGE

Western Digital puts our products through exten-
sive Functional Integrity Testing (F.I.T.) prior to any
product launch. This testing ensures our products
consistently meet the quality and reliability stan-
dards of the Western Digital brand. WD also has
a detailed Knowledge Base with more than 1,000
helpful articles as well as helpful software and util-
ities. Our toll-free customer support lines are here
to help or you can access our WD Support site for
additional details.
WD Black™ 2.5-inch PC Hard Drive

Specifications
PRODUCT BRIEF 2.5-INCH PC HARD DRIVE

1TB 500GB 500GB 320GB 250GB

Model Number² WD10SPSX WD5000LPLX WD5000LPSX WD3200LPLX WD2500LPLX

Recording Technology 9 SMR CMR SMR CMR CMR

Interface SATA 6 Gb/s SATA 6 Gb/s SATA 6 Gb/s SATA 6 Gb/s SATA 6 Gb/s
Formatted capacity¹ 1,000,204MB 500,107MB 500,107MB 320,072MB 250,059MB
User sectors per drive 1,953,525,168 976,773,168 976,773,168 625,142,448 488,397,168
Form factor 2.5-inch 2.5-inch 2.5-inch 2.5-inch 2.5-inch
Advanced Format (AF) Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
RoHS compliant³ Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Performance
Data transfer rate (max)²
6 Gb/s
Interface Speed 6 Gb/s 6 Gb/s 6 Gb/s 6 Gb/s
Cache (MB)¹ 64 32 64 32 32
Performance Class 7200 RPM 7200 RPM 7200 RPM 7200 RPM 7200 RPM
Average Drive Ready Time (sec) 3.8 3.8 3.8 3.8 3.8

Reliability/Data Integrity
Load/unload cycles⁴ 600,000 600,000 600,000 600,000 600,000
Non-recoverable read errors per
bits read <1 in 1014 <1 in 1014 <1 in 1014 <1 in 1014 <1 in 1014
Limited warranty (years)⁵ 5 5 5 5 5
Power Management6
5VDC ±10% (A, peak) 1.1 1.07 1.07 1.07 1.07
Average power requirements (W)
Read/Write 2.0 2.0 2.0 2.0 2.0
Idle 0.85 0.85 0.85 .85 0.85
Standby and Sleep 0.25 0.25 0.25 .25 0.25

Environmental Specifications⁷
Temperature (°C)
Operating 0 to 60 0 to 60 0 to 60 0 to 60 0 to 60
Non-operating -40 to 65 -40 to 65 -40 to 65 -40 to 65 -40 to 65
Acoustics (dBA)⁸
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Idle 24 23 23 23
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Seek (average) 25 35 25 25
Physical Dimensions
Height (in./mm, max) 0.28/7.0 0.28/7.0 0.28/7.0 0.28/7.0 0.28/7.0
Length (in./mm, max) 3.94/100.20 3.94/100.20 3.94/100.20 3.94/100.20 3.94/100.20
Width (in./mm, ± .01 in.) 2.75/69.85 2.75/69.85 2.75/69.85 2.75/69.85 2.75/69.85
Weight (lb/kg , ± 10%) 0.20/0.092 0.20/0.092 0.20/0.092 0.20/0.092 0.20/0.092

Specifications subject to change without notice. 4

Controlled unload at ambient condition.
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As used for storage capacity, one megabyte (MB) = one million bytes, one gigabyte (GB) = one billion bytes, and 5
See http://support.wdc.com/warranty for regional specific warranty details.
one terabyte (TB) = one trillion bytes. Total accessible capacity varies depending on operating environment. As
⁶ Power measurements at room-ambient temperature.
used for buffer or cache, one megabyte (MB) = 1,048,576 bytes. As used for transfer rate or interface, megabyte per
⁷ No non-recoverable errors during operating tests or after non-operating tests.
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 transfer rate calculated according to the Serial ATA specification published by the SATA-IO ⁸ Sound power level.
organization as of the date of this specification sheet. Visit www.sata-io.org for details.
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Implementation of SMR for these products is device-managed SMR.

² Not all products may be available in all regions of the world.

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WD hard drive products manufactured and sold worldwide after June 8, 2011, meet or exceed Restriction of
Hazardous Substances (RoHS) compliance requirements as mandated by the RoHS Directive 2011/65/EU.

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