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WD Blue - Hard drive - 12 TB - internal - 3.5" - SATA 6Gb/s - 7200 rpm - buffer: 512 MB
Hard drive
12 TB
internal
3.5"
SATA 6Gb/s
7200 rpm
buffer: 512 MB
Weight: 0.74 KG
- More options
- No Touch Ramp Load technology
- Tested for compatibility
- The WD advantage
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Overview
WD Blue drives are designed and manufactured with the proven technology found in WD's original award-winning desktop and mobile hard drives. Built to the highest standards of quality and reliability, these drives offer the features and capacity ideal for your everyday computing needs. These drives are available in a broad range of capacities, cache sizes, form factors and interfaces so you can be sure there's a drive that's the perfect fit for your system, in more ways than one.
Main Specifications
- Product Description
- WD Blue - hard drive - 12 TB - SATA 6Gb/s
- Type
- Hard drive - internal
- Capacity
- 12 TB
- Form Factor
- 3.5"
- Interface
- SATA 6Gb/s
- Dimensions (WxDxH)
- 101.6 mm x 147 mm x 26.1 mm
- Weight
- 750 g
- Manufacturer Warranty
- 2-year warranty
- Features
- Conventional magnetic recording (CMR), Low Power Management, NoTouch ramp load technology, Advanced Format technology
- Spindle Speed
- 7200 rpm
- Data Transfer Rate
- 600 MBps
- Buffer Size
- 512 MB
Associated Documents
Product Features
The original
WD Blue drives are designed and manufactured with the proven technology found in WD's original award-winning desktop and mobile 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.
More options
These drives are available in a broad range of capacities, cache sizes, form factors and interfaces so you can be sure there's a drive that's the perfect fit for your system, in more ways than one.
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. SATA or PATA interface. While SATA has become the industry standard interface, WD continues to manufacture desktop drives with a PATA interface for unique or legacy systems.
Tested for compatibility
Upgrading your drive is easy.
The WD advantage
WD puts the products through extensive Functional Integrity Testing prior to any product launch. This testing ensures the products consistently meet the highest quality and reliability standards of the WD brand.
What's in the box
WD Blue - hard drive, Software
Specifications
General
- Depth
- 147 mm
- Capacity
- 12 TB
- Device Type
- Hard drive - internal
- Weight
- 750 g
- Form Factor
- 3.5"
- Interface
- SATA 6Gb/s
- Height
- 26.1 mm
- Width
- 101.6 mm
- Features
- Conventional magnetic recording (CMR), Low Power Management, NoTouch ramp load technology, Advanced Format technology
- Buffer Size
- 512 MB
Manufacturer Warranty
- Service & Support
- Limited warranty - 2 years
Miscellaneous
- Compliant Standards
- BSMI, ICES-003, FCC, Maghreb, RCM, UKCA, VCCI, TUV, UL, CB Scheme, NMB-003
Environmental Parameters
- Min Operating Temperature
- 0 °C
- Shock Tolerance (operating)
- 70 g @ 2 ms
- Max Operating Temperature
- 60 °C
- Min Storage Temperature
- -40 °C
- Sound Emission
- 34 dBA
- Shock Tolerance (non-operating)
- 250 g @ 2 ms
Power
- Power Consumption
- 8.8 watt (read/write), 6.1 watt (idle), 0.3 watt (standby), 0.3 watt (sleep)
Connections & Expansion
- Compatible Bay
- 3.5"
- Interfaces
- 1 x SATA 6 Gb/s
Performance
- Internal Data Rate
- 260 MBps
- Spindle Speed
- 7200 rpm
- Drive Transfer Rate
- 600 MBps (external)
Software / System Requirements
- Software Included
- Acronis True Image WD Edition
Reliability
- Non-Recoverable Errors
- 1 per 10^14
- Load / Unload Cycles
- 300,000

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