WD Quality Built to the high standards of quality and reliability of the WD brand, these drives offer the features and capacity ideal for everyday computing needs. The Original WD Blue 2.5-inch PC Hard Drives are designed and manufactured with the proven technology found in WD’s original award-winning hard drives. Compatible The latest generation of 7 mm 2.5-inch mobile drives is designed for thin and light mobile applications, and is also compatible with most standard 9.5 mm bays. SATA 6 Gb/s interface The SATA 6 Gb/s interface provides greater flexibility for use with the latest chipsets as well as backwards compatibility to legacy systems with SATA 3 Gb/s requirements. Low Power Consumption State-of-the-art seeking algorithms and advanced power management features help ensure low power consumption. Quiet In a notebook, silence is golden. WD’s exclusive noise reducing technologies yield some of the quietest 2.5-inch hard drives on the market. Upgrading Your Drive is Easy Acronis™ True Image™ WD Edition cloning software is available as a free download on the WD Support site enabling you to copy all your data to a new drive. You don’t have to reinstall your operating system to get all the benefits of a new drive. Enhanced Availability (EA)—for 24×7 Access to Data Western Digital provides enhanced availability models of WD Blue 2.5-inch PC Hard Drives (WD5000LQVX) that deliver 24×7 access to information for data-intensive applications requiring round-the-clock operation. WD Blue EA models support the stringent demands of “always-on” applications in lower-transaction environments and come with a 3-year standard warranty.