Western Digital WD5000YS Caviar RE 500Gb 7200RPM SATA-3.0Gbps 3.5-Inch Hard Drive

Overview

WD RE 7200 RPM hard drives are engineered to thrive in a high duty cycle RAID system while still offering traditional low cost-per-capacity desktop value. Designed and manufactured to server-class standards, WD RE drives provide RAID-specific, time-limited error recovery (TLER) to significantly reduce drive fallout caused by extended drive error-recovery processes and are tested to 1 million hours MTBF. These drives include an 8 MB (SB) or 16 MB (YS) cache for faster time to data and fluid dynamic bearings (FDB) to reduce heat, vibration, and noise.

Specifications

Model Number:

WD5000YS

Brand:

Western Digital

Alt Part Number(s):

WD5000YS

Product Type:

Hard Drive

Technical Description

Brand:

Western Digital

Model:

WD5000YS

Series:

RE2

Interface:

SATA 3.0Gb/s

Capacity:

500GB

RPM:

7200 RPM

Cache:

16MB

Average Seek Time:

8.9ms

Average Latency:

4.2ms

Form Factor:

3.5″

Enclosure Type:

Internal

Product Type:

Hard Drive

Drive Height:

1/3H

Height:

1.0″

Width:

4.0″

Depth:

5.8″

Features

Superior reliability –

Designed and manufactured to server-class standards to provide best-in-class enterprise reliability in high duty cycle environments. With 1.2 million hours MTBF at 100% duty cycle, these drives have the highest available reliability rating on a high-capacity drive.

Low power –

Active Power Save delivers best-in-class seek mode power consumption through an advanced WD firmware which conserves power in active seek modes without degrading performance.

RAID-specific, time-limited error recovery (TLER) –

A feature pioneered by WD, significantly reduces drive fallout caused by the extended hard drive error-recovery processes common to desktop drives.

Rotary Acceleration Feed Forward (RAFF) –

Provides best-in-class vibration tolerance by optimizing operation and performance when the drives are used in vibration-prone, multidrive systems such as rack-mounted servers or network storage.

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