Western Digital Blue 500GB Hard Disk

Name: Western Digital Blue 500GB
Brand: Western Digital
SKU: WD5000LPVX
Rating: 4.4 (498 reviews)

Western Digital Blue 500GB 2.5" SATA 3 5400 RPM 8 MB Cache WD5000LPVX

★★★★★

(498 reviews)

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320 GB
$55.00

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 files. These drives
are designed for use as primary drives in notebooks and
external enclosures.

Specifications Overview

Model	WD5000LPVX
Release Date	August 2013 * First availability for purchase, it may not correspond to the actual market launch date.
Capacity	500 GB
Cache	8MB
RPM	5400
Interface	SATA 6 Gb/s
Form Factor	2.5"

	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 Blue 500GB Performance comparison with similar Hard Disk Drives

(Higher is better)

Western Digital Blue 500GB Performance

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

Samsung HD502HI 500GB (143rd)		104%
Western Digital Caviar Blue 320GB (143rd)		104%
WD Blue 1TB WD10SPCX (143rd)		104%
Samsung 750GB SATA II HD753LJ (148th)		102%
Seagate Momentus Thin 320GB (148th)		102%
Western Digital Blue 500GB Mobile (148th)		102%
Seagate 500GB Firecuda ST500LX025 (151st)		~
Western Digital Caviar Green 1TB WD10EADS (151st)		~
Western Digital 250GB Caviar Blue (151st)		~
Western Digital 250GB Caviar Blue WD2500AAKS (151st)		~
Western Digital Blue 500GB (151st)		100%
Samsung Spinpoint M8 1TB ST1000LM024 (156th)		97%
Seagate Laptop Thin 500GB 5400RPM (156th)		97%
Western Digital 500GB Caviar Green (158th)		95%
WD Black 320GB WD3200BEKX (158th)		95%
Western Digital 160GB WD1600AAJS (160th)		93%
TOSHIBA MQ01ABD032 320GB (161st)		90%
WD Blue 320GB WD3200LPVX (162nd)		88%
Western Digital 500GB Caviar Blue WD5000AAJS (162nd)		88%
WD Blue 500GB WD5000BPVT (164th)		83%
Western Digital 80GB Caviar Blue WD800AAJS (165th)		79%