WD Blue 500GB Low power consumption State-of-the-art seeking algorithms and advanced power management features ensure low power consumption and long battery life. Quiet In a notebook drive, silence is golden. WD’s exclusive noise reducing technologies yield one of the quietest 2.5-inch hard drives on the market. The original WD Blue drives are designed and manufactured with the proven technology found in WD’s original award-winning hard drives. WD quality Built to the highest standards of quality and reliability, these drives offer the features and capacity ideal for your everyday computing needs. Available SATA 6 Gb/s interface The SATA 6 Gb/s interface provides greater flexibility for use with the latest chipsets as well as backwards compatibility to legacy systems with SATA 3 Gb/s requirements. (xPVX, xPCX, and MPCK models only). Upgrading your drive is easy Acronis True Image WD Edition Software, available as a free download on the WD Support site, enables you to copy all your data to a new drive so you don’t have to reinstall your operating system to get all the benefits of a new drive. Compatible Our latest generation of 7 mm 2.5-inch mobile drives is designed for thin and light mobile applications, and is also compatible with most standard 9.5 mm bays. (xPCX, LPVT, and LPVX models only). 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.