WD2500BB Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 250GB and featuring a IDE interface. WD2500BB-58GUCO Western Digital 250GB 7200RPM ATA-100 3.5-inch Hard Drive.
All information about the Western Digital WD2500BB hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Western Digital WD2500BB Technical Details:
- Hard Disk Model: WDC WD2500BB
- Disk Family: Caviar
- Form Factor: 3.5″
- Capacity: 250 GB (250 x 1 000 000 000 bytes)
- Number Of Disks: 3
- Number Of Heads: 6
- Rotational Speed: 7200 RPM
- Rotation Time: 8.33 ms
- Average Rotational Latency: 4.17 ms
- Disk Interface: Ultra-ATA/100
- Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 100 MB/seconds
- Buffer Size: 2048 KB
- Drive Ready Time (typical): 7 seconds
- Average Seek Time: 8.9 ms
- Track To Track Seek Time: 2 ms
- Full Stroke Seek Time: 21 ms
- Width: 101.6 mm (4.00 inch)
- Depth: 147 mm (5.79 inch)
- Height: 25.4 mm (1.00 inch)
- Acoustic (Idle): 2.8 Bel
- Acoustic (Min performance and volume): 2.9 Bel
- Acoustic (Max performance and volume): 3.3 Bel
- Required Power For Spinup: 980 mA
- Power Required (Seek): 8.6 W
- Power Required (Idle): 8.1 W
- Power Required (Standby): 1.1 W
- Manufacturer: Western Digital Corporation
Western Digital WD2500BB Hard Drives:
- WD2500BB-22GUC0, DCM DSCACVJAH, Western Digital 250GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2500BB-55GUA0, DCM HSBHCT2AA, Western Digital 250GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2500BB-22GUC0, DCM DSBHNTJAA, Western Digital 250GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2500BB-98FTA0, DCM HSBACTJAA, Western Digital 250GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2500BB-00FTA0, DCM HSBACVJCH, Western Digital 250GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2500BB-00GUC0, DCM DSBANTJAA, Western Digital 250GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2500BB-22GUC0, DCM DSCHVJAH, Western Digital 250GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2500BB-22GUC0, DCM DSCACVJAA, Western Digital 250GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2500BB-22GUC0, DCM HSCACVJAH, Western Digital 250GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2500BB-22RDA0, DCM DSCHCTJCH, Western Digital 250GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2500BB-00GUC0, DCM DSCACTJAH, Western Digital 250GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2500BB-00FTA0, DCM HSBHCVJAH, Western Digital 250GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2500BB-55GUC0, DCM DSBHNTJAH, Western Digital 250GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2500BB-50DWA0, DCM HSBHCVJAH, Western Digital 250GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2500BB-55GUC0, DCM DSBACTJAA, Western Digital 250GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2500BB-14RDA0, DCM DSCHCTJCH, Western Digital 250GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2500BB-22RDA0, DCM DSBANTJCA, Western Digital 250GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2500BB-55GUA0, DCM DSBHCTJAA, Western Digital 250GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2500BB-22FTA0, DCM HSCHCVJAH, Western Digital 250GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2500BB-55GUC0, DCM DSBHCTJCH, Western Digital 250GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2500BB-55GUA0, DCM DSBHCTJAH, Western Digital 250GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2500BB-55GUA0, DCM HSBHCTJAH, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2500BB-55GUC0, DCM DABHCTJAH, Western Digital 250GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2500BB-55GUC0, DCM DSBACT2AH, Western Digital 250GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2500BB-22RDA0, DCM DSBACTJCA, Western Digital 250GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
Western Digital WD2500BB 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 WD2500BB Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Western Digital WD2500BB 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:
2060-701265-001, 2060-001179-003, 2060-001266-001, 2060-701292-002, 2060-701292-001, 2060-001173-004, 2060-701266-001, etc.
Multiple Model Number revisions:
WD2500BB-98FTA0, WD2500BB-00FTA0, WD2500BB-50DWA0, WD2500BB-22FTA0, WD2500BB-55GUA0, WD2500BB-98DWA0, WD2500BB-14RDA0, WD2500BB-55RDA0, WD2500BB-00GUC0, WD2500BB-00RDA0, WD2500BB-22RDA0, WD2500BB-22GUC0, WD2500BB-00DWA0, WD2500BB-55GUC0, etc.