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Western Digital WD Caviar Green 500GB 3.5" Internal Hard Drive - SATA II Intellipower 32MB Cache 3Yr warranty

SKU: WD5000AADS Quickfind Code: 444139
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Western Digital Caviar Green internal hard drives reduce power consumption and offer best-in-class acoustics and operating temperature.

Based on Western Digitals exclusive WD GreenPower Technology, these internal hard drives are designed to deliver power savings as the primary attribute. As hard drive capacities increase, the power required to run those drives increases as well. Western Digital Caviar Green drives make it possible for energy-conscious customers to build systems with higher capacities and the right balance of system performance, ensured reliability, and energy conservation. They are ideal for PCs, external storage and other devices that require lower power consumption and cool, quiet operation.

Features

  • Capacity: 500GB
  • Interface: SATA II
  • RPM: Intellipower
  • Cache: 32MB
  • No Touch Ramp Load Technology – ensuring better drive protection in transit.
  • Reduced Power Consumption – by up to 40% compared to standard desktop drives.
  • Environmentally Responsible – an average drive power saving of 4-5 watts over standard desktop drives.
  • IntelliPower - designed to give both significant power savings & solid performance.
  • Ultra Cool & Quiet – enhanced reliability
  • IntelliSeek - Calculates optimum seek speeds to lower power consumption, noise and vibration.
  • Low Power Spin Up – Allowing lower peak loads
  • Warranty: 3 Years
  • Compatibility: Windows® 2000/XP/Vista/7 & Mac®
    Note: Compatibility may vary depending on users hardware configuration and operating system.
 

Question from Philip: Asked on 05/03/2012 Hello,

Would this be suitable for our 2007 MacBook OX? Here are the specs:

Model Name: MacBook
Model Identifier: MacBook2,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache (per processor): 4 MB
Memory: 2 GB
Bus Speed: 667 MHz
Boot ROM Version: MB21.00A5.B07
SMC Version: 1.17f0
Serial Number: W87341FCZ5Y
Sudden Motion Sensor:
State: Enabled


Host Controller Location: Built In USB
Host Controller Driver: AppleUSBUHCI
PCI Device ID: 0x27c8
PCI Revision ID: 0x0002
PCI Vendor ID: 0x8086
Bus Number: 0x1d

Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad:

Version: 0.16
Bus Power (mA): 500
Speed: Up to 12 Mb/sec

I'm not sure of the size of the cache. Is 32MB standard? There's about 80GB of space in total.

Thank you.

Yours sincerely,

Philip

Answer from paul: Answered on 05/03/2012
No, you need a 2.5" IDE hard drive. SATA 2 are for more recent laptops. You would also need to check with Apple the size of the hard drive the motherboard can cope with. There number is 0844 209 0611.

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