WD_BLACK Mobile 500GB
The WD_BLACK Mobile 500GB costs $49.99 right now, or $99.98/TB, the lowest price per terabyte of any WD_BLACK Mobile capacity. Stepping up to the 1TB costs $98.00 more.
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Where to buy the WD_BLACK Mobile 500GB
Every in-stock offer we track, cheapest first.
- Newegg$49.99
- Amazon$58.22
Price history
Lowest in the last 30 days: $49.99. Lowest in 60 days: $49.99.
Show the data as a table
| Date | Lowest price |
|---|---|
| Sep 25, 2026 | $49.99 |
| Sep 24, 2026 | $49.99 |
Lowest in-stock price each day at Newegg and B&H, across every version of this drive we list (including heatsink editions). Lowest point $49.99 on Sep 24; latest $49.99. Amazon prices appear in the offer list but are not charted.
Specifications
Drive
- Capacity
- 500GB
- Form factor
- 2.5"
- Spindle speed
- 7,200 RPM
- Recording
- SMR
- Cache
- 64 MB
Shingled recording: sustained writes and RAID rebuilds can slow sharply. Avoid for NAS arrays.
Rated for
- Use class
- Laptop
- Warranty
- 5 years
Noise and power
- Idle noise
- 24 dB
- Seek noise
- 25 dB
- Idle power
- 0.85 W
- Operating power
- 2 W
Identity
- Part number
- WD5000LPSX
Quality score
How we score →Scored from recording type (CMR or SMR), workload rating, warranty, measured failure rate where Backblaze covers the model, spindle speed, MTBF and cache. Use class and size filter; they never score.
Value weighs the score against the price, compared with other hard drives of every size: this drive costs $99.98/TB against a typical $47.50/TB. At a typical price, value equals the score. Cheaper raises it and dearer lowers it, but price counts for less than quality.
A factor we hold no value for scores zero rather than being skipped, so a drive we know little about never outranks a fully documented one. A low score with low confidence means undocumented, not bad. This is a specification index, not a benchmark, and it only compares hard drives with each other.
See every capacity of the WD_BLACK Mobile on one page, or compare it with every other drive on the Hard Drives table. For what a hard drive gives up against an SSD, see SSD vs HDD.
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