Western Digital AV-GP

Western Digital AV-GP is a hard drive family created by Western Digital. It is a variant of the Caviar GP, Green and later Blue 5,400 RPM members designed for consumer electronics DVRs. It succeeds the AV family, which had higher rotation rate 7,200 RPM models, as DVRs quickly abandoned 7,200 RPM in favour of the cooler and more energy efficient over long workload 5,400 RPM category. Since 2018, it is only known as AV-GP in datasheets, with actual units advertising a "Connected Home" slogan instead. It competes with the Toshiba DT01-V and Seagate Video 3.5 HDD families.

History

The AV-GP family was originally released in 2007, along with the initial Caviar GP models which consisted of Spider and Hulk family members. The AV family were binned versions of Caviar GP, Caviar Green and later Blue drives, using 5,400 RPM spindle speeds as opposed to 7,200 RPM used in the AV-GP family. It quickly supplanted the AV family as DVRs moved towards 7,200 RPM spindle speed as their standard, leaving the AV-GP family as Western Digital's sole family marketed to DVRs.

The AV-GP family was briefly simplified to just AV from 2013 to 2018, when the AV-GP name was restored.

Current models

Model	Codename	Capacity	Density (TB/platter)	Interface	Cache (MiB)	Released
WDC WD5000AURX-xxUY4Yx	TrailXLB	500 GB	1	SATA 3.1 (600 MB/s)	64	2015
WDC WD5000AURD-xxCYDYx	TrailXLB	500 GB	1	SATA 3.1 (150 MB/s limited)	64	2017
WDC WD10EURX-xxUY4Yx	TrailXLB	1 TB	1	SATA 3.1 (600 MB/s)	64	2015
WDC WD20EURX-xxAWSYx	Apollo CR	2 TB	1.6	SATA 3.1 (600 MB/s)	64	2020
WDC WD20EURD-xxC5SYx	Carmel RP2L	2 TB	2	SATA 3.1 (150 MB/s limited)	64	2023
WDC WD20EURZ-xxC8MYx	Carmel RP2L	2 TB	2	SATA 3.1 (600 MB/s)	64	2023
WDC WD30EURX-xxAWSYx	Apollo CR	3 TB	1.6	SATA 3.1 (600 MB/s)	64	2020
WDC WD40EURX-xxAWSYx	Apollo CR	4 TB	1.6	SATA 3.1 (600 MB/s)	64	2020
WDC WD60EUAD-xxPMMYx	Venice	6 TB	2	SATA 3.1 (600 MB/s)	256	2020?

Former models

Model	Codename	Capacity	Density	Interface	Cache (MiB)	Released	Discontinued
WDC WD1600AVVS-xxL2Bx	Midori	160 GB	320 GB	SATA 2.5 (600 MB/s)	8	2009	2012
WDC WD1600AVCS-xx2DYx	DragFly1	160 GB	500 GB	SATA 2.6 (600 MB/s)	16	2010	2015
WDC WD2500AVVS-xxL2Bx	Midori	250 GB	320 GB	SATA 2.5 (600 MB/s)	8	2009	2012
WDC WD2500AVVS-xxM8Bx	DragFly1	250 GB	500 GB	SATA 2.6 (600 MB/s)	8	2010	2015
WDC WD3200AVVS-xxL2Bx	Midori	320 GB	320 GB	SATA 2.5 (600 MB/s)	8	2009	2012
WDC WD5000AVVS-xxM8Bx	DragFly1	250 GB	500 GB	SATA 2.6 (600 MB/s)	8	2010	2013?
WDC WD5000AVCS-xx2DYx	DragFly1	500 GB	500 GB	SATA 2.6 (600 MB/s)	16	2010	2015
WDC WD5000AVDS-xxU7Bx	DragFly1	500 GB	500 GB	SATA 2.6 (600 MB/s)	32	2010	2013?

Trivia

• Long after the Caviar GP had been discontinued, the AV-GPs continued to carry old style labels with GreenPower logos on them up until 2018. All other families had redesigned labels following the colour branding format.

Gallery

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  Top lid of a WD1600AVVS-98L2B0.
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  Top lid of a WD5000AVDS-63U7B1.