WD Blue storage is designed and manufactured with technology found in WD痴 original award-winning desktop and mobile storage. This allows you to use our drive with confidence, knowing that our storage technologies are proven and are reliable everyday solutions. The difference with WD is that our colors never fade.Product FeaturesDrive with Confidence: We perform tests on hundreds of systems, configurations and a multitude of platforms in our FIT Lab to give our customers the confidence that our drives will work in their systems for the ultimate compatibility. WD Blue allows you to use our drive with confidence, knowing that our storage advancements such as NoTouch Ramp Load technology are proven and reliable everyday solutions.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.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.Ideal for:Family and business computingAdding storage in notebooks or external enclosuresAdding extra storage space for photos, videos and musicBuffer - 16 MBGreen_Compliant - YesGreen_Compliance_Certificate/authority - China RoHSMaximum_External_Data_Transfer_Rate - 768 MBps 6 Gbps