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Compare Western Digital Black 500GB WD5000BPKX vs Caviar Green 500GB

Western Digital Black 500GB WD5000BPKX and Western Digital Caviar Green 500GB are both hard disk drives with the same Capacity (500 GB) and Interface (SATA 6 Gb/s). The main differences are in Performance (+14%), Cache, RPM and Form Factor.

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Western Digital Black 500GB WD5000BPKX

Western Digital Caviar Green 500GB

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Brand

Western Digital

Brand

Western Digital

Model

WD5000BPKX

Model

WD5000AZRX

Release Date

📅 August 2013

Release Date

📅 March 2012

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Performance (Charts)

126th / 637

(-14%)

Performance (Charts)

111th / 637

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Effective Value

102nd / 161

Effective Value

77th / 161

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Price/GB

$0.13

Price/GB

$0.14

GB/$1

7.69

GB/$1

7.35

Pros

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Pros

Reliability
Low power consumption

Capacity

500 GB

Capacity

500 GB

Cache

16MB

Cache

64MB

RPM

7200

RPM

5400

Interface

SATA 6 Gb/s

Interface

SATA 6 Gb/s

Form Factor

2.5"

Form Factor

3.5"

Options (1)

WD Black 320GB WD3200BEKX

320GB
$60.00

Comparison and key differences summary

Reasons to buy the Western Digital Black 500GB WD5000BPKX:

Newer Product, it was released around 17 months later
Higher Revolutions Per Minute (+1800 RPM)

Reasons to buy the Western Digital Caviar Green 500GB:

Moderately better performance, around +14%
Moderately better effective value.
More Internal Cache (+48 MB available)

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