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product_id: 2039604
title: "WD Blue 250 GB Desktop Hard Drive: 3.5 Inch, 7200 RPM, PATA, 8 MB Cache - WD2500AAJB"
brand: "western digital"
price: "$485"
currency: NZD
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reviews_count: 8
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# 7200 RPM speed 250 GB storage WhisperDrive tech WD Blue 250 GB Desktop Hard Drive: 3.5 Inch, 7200 RPM, PATA, 8 MB Cache - WD2500AAJB

**Brand:** western digital
**Price:** $485
**Availability:** ❌ Out of Stock

## Summary

> 🚀 Elevate Your Storage Game!

## Quick Answers

- **What is this?** WD Blue 250 GB Desktop Hard Drive: 3.5 Inch, 7200 RPM, PATA, 8 MB Cache - WD2500AAJB by western digital
- **How much does it cost?** $485 with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Currently out of stock
- **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.nz](https://www.desertcart.nz/products/2039604-wd-blue-250-gb-desktop-hard-drive-3-5-inch)

## Best For

- western digital enthusiasts

## Why This Product

- Trusted western digital brand quality
- Free international shipping included
- Worldwide delivery with tracking
- 15-day hassle-free returns

## Key Features

- • **Unleash Your Data:** Experience lightning-fast access with 7200 RPM speed.
- • **Smart Power Management:** IntelliSeek optimizes seek speeds for lower energy consumption.
- • **Versatile Compatibility:** Compatible with both SATA and EIDE interfaces.
- • **Reliable Storage Solution:** 8 MB cache ensures smooth data retrieval and performance.
- • **Whisper-Quiet Performance:** Enjoy a serene workspace with WhisperDrive technology.

## Overview

The WD Blue 250 GB Desktop Hard Drive combines high performance with whisper-quiet operation, featuring a 7200 RPM speed, 8 MB cache, and versatile compatibility with both SATA and EIDE interfaces. Ideal for professionals seeking reliable and efficient storage solutions.

## Description

From the Manufacturer               WD Blue Desktop Hard Drives – Solid performance and reliability for everyday computing.The original. WD Blue drives are designed and manufactured with the proven technology found in WD's original award-winning desktop 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 and interfaces so you can be sure there's a drive that's the perfect fit for your system, in more ways than one. Product FeaturesNoTouch 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  - We perform tests on hundreds of systems and a multitude of platforms in our FIT Lab to give our customers confidence that our drives will work in their systems.The WD advantage  - WD puts our products through extensive Functional Integrity Testing (F.I.T.) prior to any product launch. On average, each new product goes through 600,000 hours of testing. WD also has a detailed Knowledge Base with more than 1,000 helpful articles. You can also call toll-free support 7 days per week in the U.S. and Canada. See the WD Support site for full details.Upgrading your drive is easy - WD Acronis TrueImage, 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 benefits of a new drive.WD-certified packaging - All WD drives purchased from .com are shipped in WD-certified hard drive packaging. It is designed and fully tested to provide WD products with the highest of safety while in transit. With WD-certified packaging, you can rest assured that your WD hard drive will arrive safely, fully protected, in a non-descript, easy-open package.Compatibility Works with Windows 7/Vista/XP/2000, Mac and Linux operating systems.Recommended use - WD Blue hard drives are tested and recommended for use in PCs, high-performance workstations and notebook computers.**Desktop drives are not recommended for use in RAID environments, please consider using WD Red hard drives for home and small office 1-5 bay NAS systems and WD Enterprise hard drives for rackmount and >5 bay NAS systems.Ideal for:Family and business computingAdding storage in desktop PCs or external drivesAdding extra storage space for photos, videos and musicFeatures at a glance80 GB - 1 TB capacity SATA 6 Gb/s or PATA 100 MB/s7200 RPM  You might also consider:  3.5-inch InternalComparison Chart  WD Blue  WD Green WD Black WD Red  WD VelociRaptor Solid performanceand reliability for everyday computing. Cool, quiet operationfor efficient eco-conscious computing. Maximum performancefor power computing. The right drive for homeor small office NAS. High-performance storage for power users. Ideal for Family and business computing. Desktop PCs, secondary storage and external drives. Photo and video editing, and maxed out gaming systems. Specifically designed and tested for small office and home office, 1-5 bay NAS systems. Performance enthusiast systems and workstations. Capacity range 80 GB – 1 TB 320 GB – 3 TB 500 GB – 2 TB 1 TB – 3 TB 250 GB – 1 TB Interface SATA 6 Gb/sPATA 100 MB/s SATA 6 Gb/s SATA 6 Gb/s SATA 6 Gb/s SATA 6 Gb/s Form factor 3.5-inch 3.5-inch 3.5-inch 3.5-inch 3.5-inch Cache 8 MB – 64 MB 64 MB 32 MB – 64 MB 64 MB 64 MB Highest capacity Highest performance Photo/video editing Network Storage Systems

## Features

- Ships in Certified Frustration-Free Packaging
- WD Caviar Blue hard drives are available with either SATA or EIDE interface in a variety of cache sizes with a multitude of available features
- WhisperDrive technology minimizes noise to levels near the threshold of human hearing.
- IntelliSeek - Calculates optimum seek speeds to lower power consumption, noise, and vibration.

## Product Details

- **Digital Storage Capacity:** 250 GB
- **Hard Disk Interface:** IDE
- **Connectivity Technology:** SATA
- **Brand:** Western Digital
- **Special Feature:** Portable
- **Hard Disk Form Factor:** 3.5 Inches
- **Hard Disk Description:** Mechanical Hard Disk
- **Compatible Devices:** Desktop
- **Installation Type:** External Hard Drive
- **Color:** Blue

## Images

![WD Blue 250 GB Desktop Hard Drive: 3.5 Inch, 7200 RPM, PATA, 8 MB Cache - WD2500AAJB - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71x0WHM5zvL.jpg)

## Available Options

This product comes in different **Capacity** options.

## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Great Hard Drive!
  

*by K***0 on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 26, 2010*

I purchased this hard drive to replace the 60GB hard drive in my HP Pavilion 742n purchased back in 2002. There was nothing wrong with the old hard drive and it had alot of free space left. The HP system recovery is on the D partition of the hard drive, and not on seperate CDs. If the hard drive did go South, I would have to purchase another operating system. I intended to install the WD hard drive and keep the old one as a back up in the event I needed to re-install the operating system.As stated, this is a bulk OEM package. All you get is the hard drive, no cables or attaching screws.I've been in the computer case before to clean out the dust bunnies from the cooling fans, upgrade the memory, and replace the CD writer with a DVD burner. This seemed to be a little more involved and made me a little anxious. In the end, it turned out to be very easy.The ribbon cable connected to the hard drive had provisions to connect two devices. The connectors were clearly marked with "primary" and "slave." I left the jumper settings on both hard drives to "cable select" and connected the WD hard drive to the "slave" connector. There is a diagram printed on the hard drive showing the jumper settings for the different configurations. I did alot of research beforehand on cloning software and decided to just use the Acronis cloning software available from the WD website. The cloning software will only work if it detects a WD component. It was easy to use and pretty much self explanatory. Once the cloning was done, I removed the old hard drive and attached the WD hard drive to the primary connector.The computer booted right up without any problems. I decided to test out the HP system recovery (pressing F10 when you see the blue HP logo) and it didn't boot into the HP system recovery. It just rebooted back to Windows.From what I could determine, it has to do with the partition configuration, which I haven't quite figured out yet, and frankly don't have any plans to at this point.When you do a system recovery, the computer reverts to as it was out of the box, with all the annoying programs that it came with and none of the programs you installed. I have everything set up just like I want it on the old hard drive. If anything should happen, I can just use it to re-install everything.The hard drive is very quiet, in fact, I can't even hear it!All in all, I think this a great product at a very reasonable price and a great way to update an older computer.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Solid drive for the price, plus free tools from WD.
  

*by C***D on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 10, 2010*

I was looking to resurrect a security camera system that had multiple hard drive failures, but it was too expensive to replace the entire system, and was unable to replace just the computer due to proprietary hardware key to secure the system from unauthorized use. I knew there were limited options as everything has been leaning towards SATA or solid state, plus the company that built the system has since gone out of business, so I figured I'd take a gamble and try replacing the hard drives to get the system back up and running. Knowing that WD made reliable drives, we got the 160GB EIDE drive for the OS and 2 500GB slave drives for the DVR data. I've replaced several OS drives for desktops and laptops, and one of the cool tools you can get from the WD website is Acronis WD Edition, which allows you (with a USB to IDE/SATA cable) to clone your boot drive, and then just replace the old/full/defective drive with the new drive once the cloning process is complete. It's a free download from WD as long as you had a WD drive connected to the computer at the time of install. Given my situation, I also opted for the full Acronis disk management software which was only $50.00, as I had to format everything to work with Win98/FAT 32.With the successful clone/format/install, the security system is back up and running considerable faster, exponentially quieter, and all within a relatively small budget. I've never had any problems with WD internal or external drives, and would recommend them to anyone looking to replace an existing drive, or add additional storage.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Use it for backup
  

*by T***K on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 28, 2012*

I bought this drive to replace another that failed. I back up my wife's system using xxclone, a free application that clones an entire disk, warts and all. You can either clone disk A to disk B then run off B while keeping A as a backup, or run off A and keep B as a backup until you clone again. The clone disk is a complete, bootable replacement for the original disk (except that Windows could possibly and unhelpfully complain. In my experience, changing only the disk but not the disk ID, a feature of xxclone, is tolerated by Windows XP Pro.) I would think that Microsoft could now send out an update to XP systems that would allow easy clone backup of XP systems, seeing as how they have since gone through Vista (with great pain) and 7, but they seem to want to perpetuate the pain of backing up an entire hard drive in case it fails totally -- which seems to be the common mode. They want you to re-install every app and every update -- not customer friendly at all.Sure, the disk is old school, and so is my wife's computer, but it functions well enough for email and occasional word processing. Still, there are things on her computer that would be a pain to lose. Solution: clone the disk to another IDE disk using xxclone every few months.Having used Linux/Ubuntu on other systems, I'll never buy another Microsoft or Apple system again; most people would never notice the difference except for the lack of headaches and cost. But for now, it's great to have available a quality hard drive to back up a legacy computer -- at least until the motherboard fails.

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