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==Current products==
==Current products==
===3.5" drives===
===3.5" drives===
Models that  report as spinning at 5,400 RPM in ATA_IDENTIFY responses, [[Western Digital RPM under-reporting controversy|despite actually spinning at 7,200 RPM]], are marked as "5400 RPM class" in the table below. Many of these drives will require covering over the 3.3V third pin to prevent unintentional activation of SATA 3.3's Power Disable (PWDIS).
{| class="wikitable sortable" summary="List of 3.5" Western Digital Internal Use models currently in production."
|-
! Model || Capacity (TB) || Spindle speed (RPM) || Cache (MiB) || SMR? || Self-encrypting? || Family || Year released
|-
|[[WDC WD30EMAZ-xxZRJBx]]
|3
|5,400
|256
|Yes
|No
|Venice<!-- If anyone knows which of these are VeniceR, feel free to amend the table. -->
|2018?
|-
|[[WDC WD30EDAZ-xxSLVBx]]
|3
|5,400
|256
|Yes
|Yes
|Venice
|2018?
|-
|[[WDC WD40EMAZ-xxTKPBx]]
|rowspan="3"|4
|rowspan="3"|5,400
|rowspan="3"|256
|rowspan="3"|Yes
|rowspan="3"|Yes
|rowspan="3"|Venice
|rowspan="3"|2018?
|-
|[[WDC WD40EMAZ-xxLW3Bx]]
|-
|[[WDC WD40EMAZ-xxZRJBx]]
|-
|[[WDC WD40EDAZ-xxSLVBx]]
|4
|5,400
|256
|Yes
|Yes
|Venice
|2018?
|-
|[[WDC WD60EMAZ-xxTKPBx]]
|rowspan="2"|6
|rowspan="2"|5,400
|rowspan="2"|256
|rowspan="2"|Yes
|rowspan="2"|No
|rowspan="2"|Venice
|rowspan="2"|2018?
|-
|[[WDC WD60EMAZ-xxLW3Bx]]
|-
|[[WDC WD60EDAZ-xxBMZBx]]
|rowspan="2"|6
|rowspan="2"|5,400
|rowspan="2"|256
|rowspan="2"|Yes
|rowspan="2"|Yes
|Venice
|rowspan="2"|2018?
|-
|[[WDC WD60EDAZ-xxU78Bx]]
|VeniceR
|-
|[[WDC WD80EMAZ-xxTA3Ax]]
|8
|7,200 (5,400 RPM class)
|256
|No
|Yes
|Vela-AP
|2018?
|-
|[[WDC WD80EMZZ-xxTGBAx]]
|8
|5,640
|128
|No
|No
|Avalon C5
|2020
|-
|[[WDC WD101EDBZ-xxB1DAx]]
|10
|7,200
|256
|No
|Yes
|Vela?
|2020
|-
|[[WDC WD120EMAZ-xxBLFAx]]
|12
|7,200 (5,400 class)
|256
|No
|Yes
|Leo-A He 12
|-
|[[WDC WD120EDBZ-xxB1HAx]]
|12
|7,200
|256
|No
|Yes
|Leo-A He 12
|}
<!-- Incomplete; still need to find all the 14+ TB models as well as the rare Leo-A He 12 10 TB models -->
====7,200 RPM 1.6-1.67 TB/platter CMR====
====7,200 RPM 1.6-1.67 TB/platter CMR====
These drives are replacements for models that reported 5,400 RPM despite spinning at 7,200 RPM below. Many of these drives will require covering over the 3.3V third pin to prevent unintentional activation of SATA 3.3's Power Disable (PWDIS).
These drives are replacements for models that reported 5,400 RPM despite spinning at 7,200 RPM below. Many of these drives will require covering over the 3.3V third pin to prevent unintentional activation of SATA 3.3's Power Disable (PWDIS).

Revision as of 01:07, 20 October 2021

Western Digital Internal Use is a hard drive family created by Western Digital. The family is designed only for use within external USB enclosures sealed at the factory and sold to retail, though many, especially the 3.5" drives, are popularly targeted for "shucking" for use in desktops or NASes as an alternative to bare drives that are more expensive, despite being binned for purpose. The 3.5" drive models of this family are also unofficially known as Western Digital White Label drives within the shucking community, after the eponymous white label that all drives in this family bear, a significant departure to the colourful labels normally used by retail and OEM WD drives.

Although any drive with a customer code of 11 or 59 is usually labelled as a Internal Use drive due to being intended for external hard drives, they shall not be classified as such on this wiki if the drive model, without its 11 or 59 customer code, would be part of any other family. For example, a WD10SPZX-11Z10T0, despite being labelled as an Internal Use drive, would not qualify for this family, as the WD10SPZX-21Z10T0, with a different customer code, does not carry an Internal Use label, and instead a Blue one, making it part of that family instead.

History

The Western Digital Internal Use drives were introduced in 2018, as part of Western Digital's rebranding using the new logo, and was retroactively applied to all models made for external drives at the time. Previously, all Western Digital Internal Use models were either labelled as Blue, or not labelled in any colour nor family at all.

Current products

3.5" drives

Models that report as spinning at 5,400 RPM in ATA_IDENTIFY responses, despite actually spinning at 7,200 RPM, are marked as "5400 RPM class" in the table below. Many of these drives will require covering over the 3.3V third pin to prevent unintentional activation of SATA 3.3's Power Disable (PWDIS).

Model Capacity (TB) Spindle speed (RPM) Cache (MiB) SMR? Self-encrypting? Family Year released
WDC WD30EMAZ-xxZRJBx 3 5,400 256 Yes No Venice 2018?
WDC WD30EDAZ-xxSLVBx 3 5,400 256 Yes Yes Venice 2018?
WDC WD40EMAZ-xxTKPBx 4 5,400 256 Yes Yes Venice 2018?
WDC WD40EMAZ-xxLW3Bx
WDC WD40EMAZ-xxZRJBx
WDC WD40EDAZ-xxSLVBx 4 5,400 256 Yes Yes Venice 2018?
WDC WD60EMAZ-xxTKPBx 6 5,400 256 Yes No Venice 2018?
WDC WD60EMAZ-xxLW3Bx
WDC WD60EDAZ-xxBMZBx 6 5,400 256 Yes Yes Venice 2018?
WDC WD60EDAZ-xxU78Bx VeniceR
WDC WD80EMAZ-xxTA3Ax 8 7,200 (5,400 RPM class) 256 No Yes Vela-AP 2018?
WDC WD80EMZZ-xxTGBAx 8 5,640 128 No No Avalon C5 2020
WDC WD101EDBZ-xxB1DAx 10 7,200 256 No Yes Vela? 2020
WDC WD120EMAZ-xxBLFAx 12 7,200 (5,400 class) 256 No Yes Leo-A He 12
WDC WD120EDBZ-xxB1HAx 12 7,200 256 No Yes Leo-A He 12

7,200 RPM 1.6-1.67 TB/platter CMR

These drives are replacements for models that reported 5,400 RPM despite spinning at 7,200 RPM below. Many of these drives will require covering over the 3.3V third pin to prevent unintentional activation of SATA 3.3's Power Disable (PWDIS).

5,400 RPM 2 TB/platter SMR

2.5" drives

5,400 RPM 1 TB/platter SMR

Historic models

3.5" drives

7,200 RPM 1.14-1.43 TB/platter helium CMR

These drives report as spinning at 5,400 RPM in ATA_IDENTIFY responses, despite actually spinning at 7,200 RPM. Many of these drives will require covering over the 3.3V third pin to prevent unintentional activation of SATA 3.3's Power Disable (PWDIS). Strangely, the EZAZ-suffix models use the Blue business unit letter, Z.

7,200 RPM 1.6-1.67 TB/platter CMR

These drives report as spinning at 5,400 RPM in ATA_IDENTIFY responses, despite actually spinning at 7,200 RPM. Many of these drives will require covering over the 3.3V third pin to prevent unintentional activation of SATA 3.3's Power Disable (PWDIS).

5,400 RPM 1.33 TB/platter CMR

This model was replaced with the 4 TB SMR models that remain in production.

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