WD Caviar® Black™
SATA Hard Drive
750GB, 3 Gb/s, 32MB Cache, 7200 RPM
WD Caviar Black drives combine a high performance electronics architecture with a rock solid mechanical architecture to deliver the perfect storage solution for your fully-loaded PC or maxed out gaming machine. Cool drive operation, no-touch head technology, and leading-edge vibration protection ensure enhanced reliability and sustained data throughput. And we back it all up with a 5-year limited warranty.
Key Features
- High Performance Electronics Architecture
- Dual processor - Twice the processing power to maximize performance.
- 32MB cache - Bigger, faster cache means faster performance.
- Rock Solid Mechanical Architecture
- StableTrac™ - The motor shaft is secured at both ends to reduce system-induced vibration and stabilize platters for accurate tracking, during read and write operations.
- NoTouch™ ramp load technology - The recording head never touches the disk media ensuring significantly less wear to the recording head and media as well as better drive protection in transit.
- 5 Year Limited Warranty
- Massive Capacity - WD Caviar Black SATA drives are available in capacities up to 1 TB.
- Compatible - We perform tests on hundreds of systems and a multitude of platforms in our FIT Lab™ and Mobile Compatibility Lab to give our customers confidence that our drives will work in their systems.
Ideal For
Power computing applications such as multimedia, video and photo editing, and maxed out gaming computers.
Specifications
| Performance Specifications | |
| Transfer Rates | |
| Buffer To Host (Serial ATA) | 3 Gb/s (Max) |
| Buffer To Disk | 145 Mbytes/s (Max) |
| Physical Specifications | |
| Formatted Capacity | 750,106MB |
| Capacity | 750GB |
| Interface | SATA 3 Gb/s |
| User Sectors Per Drive | 1,465,149,168 |
| Format | Unformatted. For instructions on formatting click here. |
| Physical Dimensions | |
| English | |
| Height | 1.028 Inches (Max) |
| Length | 5.787 Inches (Max) |
| Width | 4.00 Inches (± 0.010 inch) |
| Weight | 1.52 Pounds |
| Metric | |
| Height | 25.4 mm (Max) |
| Length | 147 mm (Max) |
| Width | 101.6 mm |
| Weight | 0.69 kg |
| Environmental Specifications | |
| Shock | |
| Operating Shock (Read) | 30G, 2 ms |
| Non-operating Shock | 250G, 2 ms |
| Acoustics | |
| Idle Mode | 24 dBA (average) |
| Seek Mode 0 | 33 dBA (average) |
| Seek Mode 3 | 29 dBA (average) |
| Temperature (English) | |
| Operating | 32° F to 140° F |
| Non-operating | -40° F to 158° F |
| Temperature (Metric) | |
| Operating | -0° C to 60° C |
| Non-operating | -40° C to 70° C |
| Humidity | |
| Operating | 5-95% RH non-condensing |
| Non-operating | 5-95% RH non-condensing |
| Altitude (English) | |
| Operating | -1,000 feet to 10,000 feet |
| Non-operating | -1,000 feet to 40,000 feet |
| Altitude (Metric) | |
| Operating | -305M to 3,050M |
| Non-operating | -305M to 12,200M |
| Vibration | |
| Operating | 0.004 g²/Hz (10 to 300 Hz) |
| Non-operating | 0.05 g²/Hz (10 to 300 Hz) |
| Operating | |
| Linear | 20-300 Hz, 0.75 G (0 to peak) |
| Random | 0.004 g²/Hz (10 to 300 Hz) |
| Non-operating | |
| Low Frequency | 0.05 g²/Hz (10 to 300 Hz) |
| High Frequency | 20-500 Hz, 4.0G (0 to peak) |
| Electrical Specifications | |
| Current Requirements | |
| 12 VDC | |
| Read/Write | 490 mA |
| Idle | 470 mA |
| Standby | 5 mA |
| Sleep | 5 mA |
| 5 VDC | |
| Read/Write | 500 mA |
| Idle | 420 mA |
| Standby | 160 mA |
| Sleep | 160 mA |
| Power Dissipation | |
| Read/Write | 8.40 Watts |
| Idle | 7.8 Watts |
| Standby | 1.00 Watts |
| Sleep | 1.00 Watts |