WDC WD5000AZRX-xxA8LBx

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WDC WD5000AZRX-xxA8LBx was a hard drive model created by Western Digital. Part of the Western Digital Caviar Green family and later simply Green, and the Trails platform, it is a 500 GB 3.5" 5,400 RPM hard drive. It is a single head version of the WDC WD10EZRX-xxA8LBx. It succeeds the WD5000AADS-xxL4Bx and WDC WD5000AADS-xxS9Bx, upgrading cache from 32 to 64 MB, the SATA version from 2.6 to 3.0, and platter density from 500 GB to 1 TB. It competed with Hitachi HDS5C1050DLE630, and later TOSHIBA DT01ABA050. It was discontinued in 2014, replaced with the WDC WD5000AZRX-xxL4HBx which is a minor revision which upgrades the command set and PCB.

SMART attributes

ID Name
0x01/1 Read Error Rate
0x03/3 Spin-Up Time
0x04/4 Start/Stop Count
0x05/5 Reallocated Sectors Count
0x07/7 Seek Error Rate
0x09/9 Power-On Hours
0x0A/10 Spin Retry Count
0x0B/11 Recalibration Retries
0x0C/12 Power Cycle Count
0xC0/192 Power-off Retract Count
0xC1/193 Load/Unload Cycle Count
0xC2/194 Temperature
0xC4/196 Reallocation Event Count
0xC5/197 Current Pending Sector Count
0xC6/198 Uncorrectable Sector Count
0xC7/199 UltraDMA CRC Error Count
0xC8/200 Write Error Rate
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