Product Information
Sturdy, fast, and featuring superb data integrity, the compact Western Digital 500GB HDD measures in at only 2.5 inches. It features a 5,400 RPM spindle speed for quick access to all of your files. Solidly constructed, you can feel safe knowing your data is secure. This Western Digital HDD comes from one of the computer world's trusted and well-known manufacturers of storage and media devices. Easy to install, the WD5000BMVW hard drive is a great way to store photos, music, movies, renderings, and all of your other digital media.While the WD5000BMVW is an internal hard drive, it works perfectly with a USB adapter. You can then easily transfer files to and from the drive to different devices over the interface. Each device will simply see the hard drive as though it were an external Western Digital USB SSD. Once you remove it from your dock, you can swap it back into any internal SATA laptop bay.Designed especially for use with portable machines, the WD5000BMVW features a circuit board attached to the underside with special fasteners. This attached PCB is specially designed to resist mechanical shocks. If it is installed on any mobile device, the PCB won't jar the drive when on the move. If you need to take the hard drive out of the machine to adjust it, then the PCB won't peel off while the hard drive is being unscrewed. The board on these drives is attached without the use of sticky PCB adhesive. That means you won't have to worry about humidity ruining the PCB on these drives.Firmware installed on this board reports information about the disk to the host machine. This allows your BIOS or UEFI system to identify the drive without any need for configuration. Logical Block Addressing (LBA) technology lets this disk handle all geometric settings through the drive controller. Your system software will address each block on the platters through an arbitrary identification number. There won’t be any calculating issues about where to put information on the drive when you run your backup program.This drive handles data recovery operations automatically. If the firmware ever senses a bad block, then it immediately activates a data recovery subroutine. This recovery program seeks to first repair any damage done to the data. Data recovery routines then automatically move the data to a fresh block. It can even fix itself by marking the previous sector as bad.These self-healing subroutines, as well as the large capacity, make this an ideal gaming disk. If you have a game console that accepts SATA volumes, then you might want to use this as an internal drive. It has been tested with the FAT32 file format that these consoles often need. Windows users can use third-party utilities to make this volume compatible with their console if needed. PC gamers will love the ability to store numerous titles alongside the software that boots their computer. The low latency numbers translate into less lag time when playing competitive online games.Product Identifiers
BrandWestern Digital
MPNWD5000BMVW
ModelWD5000BMVW
eBay Product ID (ePID)109106656
Additional Product Features
EnclosureInternal
Storage Capacity500GB
Drive InterfaceSATA I
Rotation Speed5400RPM