This product is NEW, Guaranteed Authentic. WD GREENCapacity StorageWD Green storage is designed specifically with reliability in mind for an increased drive lifespan. The advantage of being cool and quiet impacts overall reliability while reduced heat output, decreased power consumption, quiet acoustics, and best-in-class power management make WD Green a leader when compared to the competition.
This product is NEW, Guaranteed Authentic. WD GREENCapacity StorageWD Green storage is designed specifically with reliability in mind for an increased drive lifespan. The advantage of being cool and quiet impacts overall reliability while reduced heat output, decreased power consumption, quiet acoustics, and best-in-class power management make WD Green a leader when compared to the competition.
in 2 offers
The lowest price for WD 500GB 3.5 Inch Green Internal Hard Drive WD5000AZRX right now is $66.42.
Prices last updated 31 Jan 2026.
WD 500GB 3.5 Inch Green Internal Hard Drive WD5000AZRX
This product is NEW, Guaranteed Authentic. WD GREENCapacity StorageWD Green storage is designed specifically with reliability in mind for an increased drive lifespan. The advantage of being cool and quiet impacts overall reliability while reduced heat output, decreased power consumption, quiet acoustics, and best-in-class power management make WD Green a leader when compared to the competition.
This product is NEW, Guaranteed Authentic. WD GREENCapacity StorageWD Green storage is designed specifically with reliability in mind for an increased drive lifespan. The advantage of being cool and quiet impacts overall reliability while reduced heat output, decreased power consumption, quiet acoustics, and best-in-class power management make WD Green a leader when compared to the competition.
Last updated at 31/01/2026 17:30:47
originally posted on homeessentialsdirect.com
Bought one for a client's laptop (hard disk unexpectedly croaked). Dead disk was a 5400rpm HGST, so this 7200rpm WD was quite an upgrade. Client is very happy, and I got paid (which makes *me* happy). It's been running for nearly a month without issue. I'd buy this again. Capacity isn't applicable, so I didn't rate it; 500GB is plenty for my client. Noise level...what noise? Ease of installation depends highly upon where it's being installed. In the case of my client's Toshiba, it was a serious pain - I had to remove the entire bottom of the laptop. A Dell (or even HP) laptop would've been much easier, and a desktop would've been easier still. So I didn't rate 'Easy to install' either.
originally posted on westerndigital.com
The 500GB 2.5" Black drive I was sent would not partition when I tried to Install Windows 10 on it. Each time I tried, at a grand total of 3 separate times, Windows utility could not make any partitions nor format the drive. I sent it back for a refund. I ended up buying an OEM 2017 vintage WD Black 500GB 2.5" drive on Amazon for half the cost of this new one. The "open box" drive with zero hours (and most likely zero warranty) from Amazon worked perfectly and has been fine now for almost a month being used every day. It's not acceptable to buy a NEW drive from the manufacturer's website and have it immediately fail right out of the box. Qaulity Control needs to do a better job. C'mon WD!
originally posted on westerndigital.com
I’ve purchase this one single hard drive for my pc and I have not had issues so far. It’s simple and easy to use, I just had to reset it to the necessary settings for my pc to begin reading and writing on it. I only need this to transfer all my files and videos, which allows me to save space on my main ssd. I have not throughly tested the speeds as I’m not too tech savvy so I am satisfied with it. However, I was bit confused when I recieve a “generic/no label” hard drive in my package but it was the same specs as the listing. Since I am a bit new in the PC community, I would have assumed the product would match exactly to the listing but there was no other issues. Product works well so I would consider this if you are in the market
| General | |
| Device Type | Hard drive - internal |
| Capacity | 500 GB |
| Form Factor | 3.5" x 1/3H |
| Interface | SATA 6Gb/s |
Bought one for a client's laptop (hard disk unexpectedly croaked). Dead disk was a 5400rpm HGST, so this 7200rpm WD was quite an upgrade. Client is very happy, and I got paid (which makes *me* happy). It's been running for nearly a month without issue. I'd buy this again. Capacity isn't applicable, so I didn't rate it; 500GB is plenty for my client. Noise level...what noise? Ease of installation depends highly upon where it's being installed. In the case of my client's Toshiba, it was a serious pain - I had to remove the entire bottom of the laptop. A Dell (or even HP) laptop would've been much easier, and a desktop would've been easier still. So I didn't rate 'Easy to install' either.
The 500GB 2.5" Black drive I was sent would not partition when I tried to Install Windows 10 on it. Each time I tried, at a grand total of 3 separate times, Windows utility could not make any partitions nor format the drive. I sent it back for a refund. I ended up buying an OEM 2017 vintage WD Black 500GB 2.5" drive on Amazon for half the cost of this new one. The "open box" drive with zero hours (and most likely zero warranty) from Amazon worked perfectly and has been fine now for almost a month being used every day. It's not acceptable to buy a NEW drive from the manufacturer's website and have it immediately fail right out of the box. Qaulity Control needs to do a better job. C'mon WD!
I’ve purchase this one single hard drive for my pc and I have not had issues so far. It’s simple and easy to use, I just had to reset it to the necessary settings for my pc to begin reading and writing on it. I only need this to transfer all my files and videos, which allows me to save space on my main ssd. I have not throughly tested the speeds as I’m not too tech savvy so I am satisfied with it. However, I was bit confused when I recieve a “generic/no label” hard drive in my package but it was the same specs as the listing. Since I am a bit new in the PC community, I would have assumed the product would match exactly to the listing but there was no other issues. Product works well so I would consider this if you are in the market
I purchased this drive in November 2019 for the purpose of installing Windows 10 on my computer. It arrived quickly, and appeared to work very well, and installed easily. On the night of July 31, 2020 I shut down my computer so that a memory leak could be cleared and some updates installed, and there was a funny sound On August 1, I booted up the computer, or at lest tried to, as the select version of Windows screen came up, but then nothing happened after that (black screen, keyboard lit, mouse cursor working, but no other signs. I manually shut the computer off and went into bios and found the hard drive was no longer shown as present. I tried a number of things, using other cable positions, after making sure the cables were firmly seated. no luck, no matter what ... MoreI purchased this drive in November 2019 for the purpose of installing Windows 10 on my computer. It arrived quickly, and appeared to work very well, and installed easily. On the night of July 31, 2020 I shut down my computer so that a memory leak could be cleared and some updates installed, and there was a funny sound On August 1, I booted up the computer, or at lest tried to, as the select version of Windows screen came up, but then nothing happened after that (black screen, keyboard lit, mouse cursor working, but no other signs. I manually shut the computer off and went into bios and found the hard drive was no longer shown as present. I tried a number of things, using other cable positions, after making sure the cables were firmly seated. no luck, no matter what position (my computer can handle up to 6 hard drives) that position showed no drive. If the drive was in a primary position (as opposed to slave position) not only would there be no drive, but it would trigger a fault in the slave position as well. Finally decided it was dead. Checked with Western Digital. according to the serial number, the drive was produced in 2010 and the warranty expired in 2015, before I purchased the drive.
I have always gotten very good performance and long life spans from Western Digital Black components. This drive is no exception. The 1TB is listed as the largest size recommended by my notebook's manufacturer. With larger drives so common, it's great this one was still available!
This is a very good hard drive, for this size and form factor. I was curious what speeds it got in read/write and could not find any benchmarks out there, so decided to run my own. First though, there are a few things about hard drive speeds: in general, 7200 rpm is faster than 5400 rpm drives, and larger drives tend to be faster than smaller drives (1tb faster than 500gb, all else equal) and desktop drives (3.5") tend to be faster than notebook drives (2.5"). However, as I'll show, this is very fast for a notebook drive. It is nearly as fast as my 1TB 7200 RPM 3.5" Seagate Barracuda. This drive is interesting because it appears to be an updated version of the WD5000BPKX (http://www.Home Essentials Direct.com/Western-Digital-Black-Notebook-WD5000BPKX/dp/B00DSUTWMQ/) ... MoreThis is a very good hard drive, for this size and form factor. I was curious what speeds it got in read/write and could not find any benchmarks out there, so decided to run my own. First though, there are a few things about hard drive speeds: in general, 7200 rpm is faster than 5400 rpm drives, and larger drives tend to be faster than smaller drives (1tb faster than 500gb, all else equal) and desktop drives (3.5") tend to be faster than notebook drives (2.5"). However, as I'll show, this is very fast for a notebook drive. It is nearly as fast as my 1TB 7200 RPM 3.5" Seagate Barracuda. This drive is interesting because it appears to be an updated version of the WD5000BPKX (http://www.Home Essentials Direct.com/Western-Digital-Black-Notebook-WD5000BPKX/dp/B00DSUTWMQ/) which only released in January, 2015. It is $6 more at time of review, but has double the cache (32mb vs 16mb). I ran benchmarks on all my drives here http://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/171711 Here are the results (given as averages): Western Digital 500GB 7200RPM 2.5" Read 164 MB/s Write 142 MB/s Mixed 141 MB/s Seagate Barracuda 1TB 7200RPM 3.5" Read 171 Write 153 Mixed 151 So it's nearly as fast as the Seagate, but what about compared to the older molder, the WD5000BPKX? That drive is benchmarked here: http://hdd.userbenchmark.com/SpeedTest/3355/WDC-WD5000BPKX-75HPJT0 Though results vary, probably depending on the age of the drive, it seems pretty clear this version is much faster. The reports there seem to show the older model is closer to 110 MB/s. I'd recommend this as a new drive, if you can't afford a SSD (which, of course, would be faster). And I think the extra cost over the older model seems worth it, too, since it seems to be faster. This may be due to the increased cache size.
It is a mechanical hard drive. I got it for my wife's old Dell laptop and it did not work. It was not the hard drive's fault, but other issues. I will keep it for future use as an external hard drive. It's typical mechanical hard drive with speed and noise. None of those mechanical hard drives are reliable compared to newer hard drive versions out now.
Update 8-7-19: I went to the WD website to register my two drives. They show as no warranty from WD, presumably because they were bought through a reseller. Just so you know ... I use these as primary storage (and backup storage) for our MacBook Air laptop. Most MacBooks now come with solid state drives, meaning memory chip based drives, not physical spinning disks. They are much more expensive than the heritage physical disk approach, such that the largest SSD that we could get with our 2017 MacBook Air was a 256 GB drive. These WD Black (virtually enterprise level) drives are 500 GB each, so our storage is 2x that of the built in drive. We use one as our primary external drive; once a month we install the 2nd drive (also externally), copy the files across, and put ... MoreUpdate 8-7-19: I went to the WD website to register my two drives. They show as no warranty from WD, presumably because they were bought through a reseller. Just so you know ... I use these as primary storage (and backup storage) for our MacBook Air laptop. Most MacBooks now come with solid state drives, meaning memory chip based drives, not physical spinning disks. They are much more expensive than the heritage physical disk approach, such that the largest SSD that we could get with our 2017 MacBook Air was a 256 GB drive. These WD Black (virtually enterprise level) drives are 500 GB each, so our storage is 2x that of the built in drive. We use one as our primary external drive; once a month we install the 2nd drive (also externally), copy the files across, and put it into our safe deposit box at the bank. If we ever lose a drive, whether to failure or someone breaking in and stealing our drive and laptop, we're only 30 days behind, a real advantage. The only downside to this drive is that the warranty on the drive itself is provided by the Seller, OEMGENUINE. The drive came marked with a label on the drive as a Seller 5 year warranty, with no terms provided. The downside risk is there is no published warranty, either by the Seller or by WD on their website, and whatever warranty is provided is subject to the Seller still being in existence over the next 5 years. However, given the price of the drive ($35 or so), it was a reasonable risk to take, especially since we acquired two and use one as the backup to the primary one. The odds of losing two drives at the same time is pretty remote. So we accepted the risk, but dropped the review for the product & seller by 1 star. If you go to the WD website, they do claim a 5 year limited warranty. I am a little surprised that the WD website doesn't provide a link to their warranty. So if we can't reach OEMGENUINE should we have a problem, I'm not sure what protection we'll have from WD. Something to consider if that's important to you. These are fast drives (7200 rpm for the 500GB drive), which is noticeably faster than the previous bulk drives we've purchased online and/or removed from existing systems, which have all been 5400 rpm drives. SATA compatible, plug and play, no issues yet but it's only been a few days. If something materially changes, I'll post an update.
I have always used WD HDD due to the 5 year warranty and their wonderful longevity. I have drives humming that are more than 8 years old. I bought this drive to put in an external case so I could back up some folders easily on my laptop while gone from home and no online access. Somewhere, maybe here on Newegg, I read to be sure and register the drive right away and then verify the warranty date. The warranty date was for only 3 years. I was shocked! I sat for more than an hour on the chat line and then got kicked off the wait line for no apparent reason...it was not past their help hours. Was really ticked. Decided to try again 5 days later, and this time got a chat going after an hour. After a lot of back and forth with model number, purchase date and then SN and ... MoreI have always used WD HDD due to the 5 year warranty and their wonderful longevity. I have drives humming that are more than 8 years old. I bought this drive to put in an external case so I could back up some folders easily on my laptop while gone from home and no online access. Somewhere, maybe here on Newegg, I read to be sure and register the drive right away and then verify the warranty date. The warranty date was for only 3 years. I was shocked! I sat for more than an hour on the chat line and then got kicked off the wait line for no apparent reason...it was not past their help hours. Was really ticked. Decided to try again 5 days later, and this time got a chat going after an hour. After a lot of back and forth with model number, purchase date and then SN and the chat guy checking on the warranty, he said it was 3 years. When I said not so, he said maybe these particular drives have a lesser warranty. I sent him the online link for the exact drive with the 5 year listed. Then he said they probably just haven't updated their system for the warranty. Again, I said bunk, I have other older drives registered that show the 5 years. Now my problem is being escalated to see if they can update my warranty length. It will take 1-2 business days. Meanwhile, I am desperate to get this drive spinning so I can take it with me. He said I can use it and send it back to New Egg if the 5 yr warranty doesn't stick--as long as I'm with in New Egg's return window.How do you like that, New Egg?
The price of the hard drive is really good. It only costs me $33.99. I'm using it for my home VCR recorder. However, I find that the drive doesn't work all the time. The drive has the capacity 1TB, but it often stops working at around 185GB and makes a loud beep. Every time when it happens, I have to reformat the drive again. May be the problem comes from the system board. If that's the case, I just wasted my replacement for the previous hard drive. Therefore, I'm not sure what causes the hard drive to stops working and makes a loud noise. Since I'm writing a review, I'm just explaining my experience.
| General | |
| Device Type | Hard drive - internal |
| Capacity | 500 GB |
| Form Factor | 3.5" x 1/3H |
| Interface | SATA 6Gb/s |
