Western Digital WD3200AAJB - Caviar 320 GB Hard Drive Operation manual

WD BLUE™
Desktop Hard Drives
WD Blue hard drives deliver solid performance and reliability
while providing you with all the space you need to hold an
enormous amount of photos, videos and les. These drives
are designed for use as primary drives in desktops PCs,
external enclosures and for certain industrial applications.
INTERFACE
SATA 6 Gb/s
PATA 100 MB/s
WIDTH/HEIGHT
3.5-inch/1-inch
ROTATIONAL SPEED
7200 RPM
CAPACITIES
80 GB to 1 TB
MODEL NUMBERS
SATA 6 Gb/s PATA 100 MB/s
WD10EZEX WD5000AAKX WD3200AAJB
WD10EALX WD3200AAKX WD2500AAJB
WD7500AZEX WD2500AAKX WD1600AAJB
WD800AAJB
Note: Not all products may
be available in all regions of
the world.
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 and interfaces so
you can be sure there’s a drive that’s
the perfect t for your system, in
more ways than one.
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.
NoTouch™ ramp load technology
The recording head never touches
the disk media ensuring signicantly
less wear to the recording head
and media as well as better drive
protection in transit.
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 benets of a new drive.
Applications
WD Blue hard drives are tested and recommended for use in desktop PCs, industrial applications, and external enclosures. Desktop drives are not recommended
for use in RAID environments. Please consider using WD Red™ hard drives for home and small ofce 1-5 bay NAS systems and WD enterprise hard drives for
rackmount and NAS systems with more than 5 bays.*
* WD hard drives are designed and tested for use in specic applications and environments. This ensures that your hard drive is compatible with and functions properly in your application. Our
hard drives are warranted against defects in materials and workmanship in the system for which they were designed. Use in systems other than for what the hard drive was designed could
result in compatibility problems that affect proper function, unrelated to material and/or workmanship defects. For best results, be sure to select the appropriate product for your application
by consulting our product spec sheets on our website at www.wd.com or by calling our customer support line where we would be happy to help you through the selection process.
The WD Advantage
WD puts our products through extensive Functional Integrity Testing (F.I.T.) prior to any product launch. This testing ensures our products consistently meet the
highest quality and reliability standards of the WD brand. WD also has a detailed Knowledge Base with more than 1,000 helpful articles as well as helpful software
and utilities. Our customer support lines have longer operational hours to ensure you get the help you need when you need it. Our toll-free customer support lines
are here to help or you can access our WD Support site for additional details.

WD BLUE™
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Specications 1 TB 1 TB 750 GB 500 GB 320 GB
Model number WD10EZEX WD10EALX WD7500AZEX WD5000AAKX WD3200AAKX
Interface SATA 6 Gb/s SATA 6 Gb/s SATA 6 Gb/s SATA 6 Gb/s SATA 6 Gb/s
Formatted capacity11,000,204 MB 1,000,204 MB 750,156 MB 500,107 MB 320,072 MB
User sectors per drive 1,953,525,169 1,953,525,169 1,465,149,168 976,773,168 625,142,448
Advanced Format (AF) Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Form factor 3.5-inch 3.5-inch 3.5-inch 3.5-inch 3.5-inch
RoHS compliant2Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Performance
Data transfer rate (max)
Buffer to host
Host to/from drive (sustained)
6 Gb/s
150 MB/s
6 Gb/s
126 MB/s
6 Gb/s
150 MB/s
6 Gb/s
126 MB/s
3 Gb/s
126 MB/s
Cache (MB) 64 32 64 16 16
Rotational speed (RPM) 7200 7200 7200 7200 7200
Reliability/Data Integrity
Load/unload cycles4300,000 300,000 300,000 300,000 300,000
Non-recoverable read errors per bits
read
<1 in 1014 <1 in 1014 <1 in 1014 <1 in 1014 <1 in 1014
Limited warranty (years)522222
Power Management
5VDC ±10% (A, peak) 2.5 2.8 2.5 1.77 1.77
Average power requirements (W)
Read/Write
Idle
Standby/Sleep
6.8
6.1
1.2
7.3
6.1
0.7
6.8
6.1
1.2
6.0
5.6
0.9
6.0
5.6
0.9
Environmental Specications6
Temperature (°C)
Operating
Non-operating
0 to 60
-40 to 70
0 to 60
-40 to 70
0 to 60
-40 to 70
0 to 60
-40 to 70
0 to 60
-40 to 70
Shock (Gs)
Operating (2 ms, write)
Operating (2 ms, read)
Non-operating (2 ms)
30
65
350
30
65
300
30
65
350
30
65
350
30
65
350
Acoustics (dBA)7
Idle
Seek (average)
29
30
28
33
29
30
29
30
29
30
Physical Dimensions
Height (in./mm, max) 1.028/25.4 1.028/25.4 1.028/25.4 1.028/25.4 1.028/25.4
Length (in./mm, max) 5.787/147 5.787/147 5.787/147 5.787/147 5.787/147
Width (in./mm, ± .01 in.) 4/101.6 4/101.6 4/101.6 4/101.6 4/101.6
Weight (lb./kg, ± 10%) 0.99/0.45 0.95/0.43 0.99/0.45 0.95/0.43 0.95/0.43
1As used for storage capacity, one megabyte (MB) = one million bytes, one gigabyte (GB) = one billion bytes, and one terabyte (TB) = one trillion bytes. Total accessible capacity varies depending on operating environment. As used for buffer or cache, one megabyte (MB) = 1,048,576 bytes. As used for transfer
rate or interface, megabyte per second (MB/s) = one million bytes per second, and gigabit per second (Gb/s) = one billion bits per second. Effective maximum SATA 3 Gb/s transfer rate calculated according to the Serial ATA specication published by the SATA-IO organization as of the date of this specication
sheet. Visit www.sata-io.org for details.
2WD hard drive products manufactured and sold worldwide after June 8, 2011, meet or exceed Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) compliance requirements as mandated by the RoHS Directive 2011/65/EU.
3Maximum burst rate running the Mode 5 Ultra ATA transfer mode.
4Controlled unload at ambient condition.
5The term of the limited warranty may vary by region. Visit support.wd.com/warranty for details.
6 No non-recoverable errors during operating tests or after non-operating tests.
7 Sound power level.

WD BLUE™
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WD BLUE™
Everyday Storage
WD GREEN™
Cool & Quiet Storage
WD BLACK™
Performance Storage
WD RED™
NAS Storage
WD Blue is part of WD’s complete lineup of internal hard drives.
Learn more about WD Blue Desktop hard drives Canada ICES-003 Class B / NMB-003 Classe B
Specications 320 GB 250 GB 250 GB 160 GB 80 GB
Model number WD3200AAJB WD2500AAKX WD2500AAJB WD1600AAJB WD800AAJB
Interface PATA 100 MB/s SATA 6 Gb/s PATA 100 MB/s PATA 100 MB/s PATA 100 MB/s
Formatted capacity1320,072 MB 250,059 MB 250,059 MB 160,041 MB 80,026 MB
User sectors per drive 625,142,448 488,397,168 488,397,168 312,581,808 156,301,488
Advanced Format (AF) No Yes No No No
Form factor 3.5-inch 3.5-inch 3.5-inch 3.5-inch 3.5-inch
RoHS compliant2Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Performance
Data transfer rate (max)
Buffer to host
Host to/from drive (sustained)
100 MB/s3
126 MB/s
6 Gb/s
126 MB/s
100 MB/s3
126 MB/s
100 MB/s3
126 MB/s
100 MB/s3
126 MB/s
Cache (MB) 8 16 8 8 8
Rotational speed (RPM) 7200 7200 7200 7200 7200
Reliability/Data Integrity
Load/unload cycles4300,000 300,000 300,000 300,000 300,000
Non-recoverable read errors per bits
read
<1 in 1014 <1 in 1014 <1 in 1014 <1 in 1014 <1 in 1014
Limited warranty (years)522222
Power Management
5VDC ±10% (A, peak) 1.77 1.77 1.77 1.77 1.77
Average power requirements (W)
Read/Write
Idle
Standby/Sleep
5.4
4.9
0.7
5.3
4.9
0.7
5.4
4.9
0.7
5.4
4.9
0.7
5.4
4.9
0.7
Environmental Specications6
Temperature (°C)
Operating
Non-operating
0 to 60
-40 to 65
0 to 60
-40 to 70
0 to 60
-40 to 65
0 to 60
-40 to 65
0 to 60
-40 to 65
Shock (Gs)
Operating (2 ms, write)
Operating (2 ms, read)
Non-operating (2 ms)
30
65
350
30
65
350
30
65
350
30
65
350
30
65
350
Acoustics (dBA)7
Idle
Seek (average)
29
30
29
30
29
30
29
30
29
30
Physical Dimensions
Height (in./mm, max) 1.028/25.4 1.028/25.4 1.028/25.4 1.028/25.4 1.028/25.4
Length (in./mm, max) 5.787/147 5.787/147 5.787/147 5.787/147 5.787/147
Width (in./mm, ± .01 in.) 4/101.6 4/101.6 4/101.6 4/101.6 4/101.6
Weight (lb./kg, ± 10%) 0.95/0.43 0.99/0.45 0.95/0.43 0.95/0.43 0.95/0.43
1As used for storage capacity, one megabyte (MB) = one million bytes, one gigabyte (GB) = one billion bytes, and one terabyte (TB) = one trillion bytes. Total accessible capacity varies depending on operating environment. As used for buffer or cache, one megabyte (MB) = 1,048,576 bytes. As used for transfer
rate or interface, megabyte per second (MB/s) = one million bytes per second, and gigabit per second (Gb/s) = one billion bits per second. Effective maximum SATA 3 Gb/s transfer rate calculated according to the Serial ATA specication published by the SATA-IO organization as of the date of this specication
sheet. Visit www.sata-io.org for details.
2WD hard drive products manufactured and sold worldwide after June 8, 2011, meet or exceed Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) compliance requirements as mandated by the RoHS Directive 2011/65/EU.
3Maximum burst rate running the Mode 5 Ultra ATA transfer mode.
4Controlled unload at ambient condition.
5 The term of the limited warranty may vary by region. Visit support.wd.com/warranty for details.
6 No non-recoverable errors during operating tests or after non-operating tests.
7 Sound power level.
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