WD1600AB Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 160GB and featuring a IDE interface. WD1600AB Western Digital Protege 160GB 5400RPM IDE Ultra ATA-100 2MB Cache 3.5-inch Hard Drive.

All information about the Western Digital WD1600AB hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Western Digital WD1600AB Technical Details:

  • Hard Disk Model: WDC WD1600AB
  • Disk Family: Protege
  • Form Factor: 3.5″
  • Capacity: 160 GB (160 x 1 000 000 000 bytes)
  • Number Of Disks: 2
  • Number Of Heads: 4
  • Rotational Speed: 5400 RPM
  • Rotation Time: 11.11 ms
  • Average Rotational Latency: 5.56 ms
  • Disk Interface: Ultra-ATA/100
  • Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 100 MB/seconds
  • Buffer Size: 2048 KB
  • Drive Ready Time (typical): 6 seconds
  • Average Seek Time: 12.8 ms
  • Track To Track Seek Time: 2.0 ms
  • Full Stroke Seek Time: 28.5 ms
  • Width: 101.6 mm (4.00 inch)
  • Depth: 147 mm (5.79 inch)
  • Height: 25.4 mm (1.00 inch)
  • Weight: 485 grams (1.07 pounds)
  • Manufacturer: Western Digital Corporation

Western Digital WD1600AB Hard Drives:

WD1600AB Western Digital 160GB IDE 3.5 Inch Hard Drive

  • WD1600AB-00DYA0, DCM DSBACTJAA, Western Digital 160GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1600AB-00DYA0, DCM HSBACTJAA, Western Digital 160GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1600AB-22DYA0, DCM HSBHCTJCH, Western Digital 160GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1600AB-00DYA0, DCM HSBHCVJAA, Western Digital 160GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1600AB-00DYA0, DCM HSBHCTJAA, Western Digital 160GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1600AB-00DYA0, DCM HSCACTJAH, Western Digital 160GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1600AB-22DBA0, DCM HSCANVJAA, Western Digital 160GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive

Western Digital WD1600AB Failure Symptoms:

  • Electrical Failure Symptoms:
    Drive is powered, but shows no sign of function;
    Disk knocking as the motor fails to spin;
    Clicking sound as the heads search or initialize;
  • Mechanical Failure Symptoms:
    Clicking, grinding sounds;
    Completely quiet due to ” motor freeze”;
    “music” tone as the disk is powered up;
  • Logical Failure Examples:
    Accidental deletion, accidental format, file corruption, software bugs, file system corruption, viruses and malware, and many, many more.
  • Firmware Failure Symptoms:
    drive powers up, but is not recognised by the computer;
    Drive powers up, but is recognised wrongly, sometimes with nonsensical characters;
    Drive freezes during booting up;
  • Bad Platter Area Symptoms:
    Hard disk still accessible but appear to “hang” or “sluggish”;
    Constant Cyclic Redundancy (CRC) errors;
    Unable to access folders or files which could be seen;
  • Complex Failure Model

Western Digital WD1600AB Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Western Digital WD1600AB Hard Disk Drive experience is burnt circuit board(PCB). So if you will need to match a replacement PCB, it is important that you note the “Board Number” of your current circuit board in addition to the hard drive’s “Model Number“.

Multiple PCB Number revisions:
2060-001173-004, 2060-001128-005, etc.

Multiple Model Number revisions:
WD1600AB-22DYA0, WD1600AB-00DYA0, WD1600AB-22DBA0, etc.