The WD Blue 5mm is available in a single 500GB capacity with a two-year warranty and is designed for OEMs, though the drive may find itself in retail channels at some point. WD has poured a lot of effort into design, and the payoff seems worthy of the effort. It produces merely 15 decibels in idle state and an average of 17 decibels in seek operations. The UltraSlim also features a Dual Stage Actuator to reduce vibrations and acoustics from within systems. The drive attains these advantages while still having a rigid composition with tough aluminum materials and a tied-shaft motor to ensure drive integrity. Those figures show the UltraSlim manages to be 25% lighter than the previous generation model. In our labs, we also measured the UltraSlim’s weight which came in at 69g compared to the Western Digital Scorpio Blue at 92g. UltraSlim is 47% thinner than 9.5mm drives and 29% thinner than 7mm drives thanks to its new micro PCB. WD Blue UltraSlim has a wealth of innovation placed into design to complement and go far beyond just meeting the initial parameter of featuring a 5mm profile. Hardware designs are slimming down and manufacturers either don’t want to give up the capacity hard drives offer or don’t want or need to take on the expense profile of SSDs.
ULTRA SLIM EXTERNAL SOLID STATE HARD DRIVE PORTABLE
The drive isn’t just thin for thinness sake OEMs are demanding thinner hard drives for their increasingly skinny portable computing designs and on the enterprise side, embedded solutions have the same requirement. An engineering feat for sure, UltraSlim 500GB contains just a single platter that spins at 5400 RPM and connects via the diminutive SFF-8784 edge connector and SATA 6Gb/s interface. Just how thin is a 5mm hard drive? About half as thick as a standard 9.5mm form factor and thinner than three SD cards.
This WD message has long been utilized by the Blue line of hard drives, but this time WD has pushed the boundaries even further, or perhaps you could say contracted those boundaries by releasing the drive in an amazingly thin 5mm body and 2.5″ form factor. The WD Blue UltraSlim blends affordability with capacity and is WD’s latest effort at a mainstream hard drive designed for OEMs.
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