Western Digital 500GB Caviar Green Hard Disk

Western Digital 500GB Caviar Green SATA 3 Gb/s 32MB Cache WD5000AADS

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WD Caviar Green hard drives reduce power consumption by up to 40% and offer best-in-class acoustics and operating temperature.
A fine-tuned balance of spin speed, transfer rate and caching algorithms designed to deliver both significant power savings and solid performance.
IntelliSeek - Calculates optimum seek speeds to lower power consumption, noise, and vibration.

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Specifications Overview

Model	WD5000AADS
Release Date	October 2009 * First availability for purchase, it may not correspond to the actual market launch date.
Capacity	500 GB
Cache	32MB
RPM	5400
Interface	SATA 3 Gb/s
Form Factor	3.5"

	Old Name	Current Name	Branding	Data Speed	Port
USB 2.0	USB 2.0	USB 2.0	Hi-Speed USB	480 Mbit/s	diverse
USB 3.0	USB 3.1 Gen 1	USB 3.2 Gen 1x1	SuperSpeed USB	5 Gbit/s	diverse
USB 3.1	USB 3.1 Gen 2	USB 3.2 Gen 2x1	SuperSpeed USB 10Gbps	10 Gbit/s	diverse
USB 3.2	USB 3.2 Gen 2x2	USB 4.0 Gen 2x2	USB4 20Gbps	20 Gbit/s	only USB-C
USB4	USB 4.0 Gen 3x2	USB4 1.0	USB4 40Gbps	40 Gbit/s	only USB-C
USB4v2	USB 4.0 Gen 4	USB4 2.0	USB4 80Gbps	80-120 Gbit/s	only USB-C

Western Digital 500GB Caviar Green Performance comparison with similar Hard Disk Drives

(Higher is better)

Western Digital 500GB Caviar Green Performance

Sequential read/write speed, Random 4K read/write speed

Samsung 750GB SATA II HD753LJ (148th)		107%
Seagate Momentus Thin 320GB (148th)		107%
Seagate 500GB Firecuda ST500LX025 (151st)		104%
Western Digital Caviar Green 1TB WD10EADS (151st)		104%
Western Digital Blue 500GB (151st)		104%
Western Digital 250GB Caviar Blue (151st)		104%
Western Digital 250GB Caviar Blue WD2500AAKS (151st)		104%
Samsung Spinpoint M8 1TB ST1000LM024 (156th)		102%
Seagate Laptop Thin 500GB 5400RPM (156th)		102%
WD Black 320GB WD3200BEKX (158th)		~
Western Digital 500GB Caviar Green (158th)		100%
Western Digital 160GB WD1600AAJS (160th)		97%
TOSHIBA MQ01ABD032 320GB (161st)		95%
WD Blue 320GB WD3200LPVX (162nd)		92%
Western Digital 500GB Caviar Blue WD5000AAJS (162nd)		92%
WD Blue 500GB WD5000BPVT (164th)		87%
Western Digital 80GB Caviar Blue WD800AAJS (165th)		82%
Seagate Momentus 500GB ST9500325AS (166th)		78%
Western Digital WD5000BEVT 500GB (166th)		78%
Toshiba MK3276GSX 320GB (168th)		75%
Western Digital Scorpio Blue 160GB (169th)		63%