WD800JB Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 80GB and featuring a IDE interface. WD800JB-55JJC0 Western Digital Caviar Blue 80GB 7200RPM ATA-100 8MB Cache 3.5-inch Hard Disk Drive.

All information about the Western Digital WD800JB hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Western Digital WD800JB Technical Details:

  • Hard Disk Model: WDC WD800JB
  • Disk Family: Caviar SE
  • Form Factor: 3.5″
  • Capacity: 80 GB (80 x 1 000 000 000 bytes)
  • Number Of Disks: 1
  • Number Of Heads: 1
  • 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: 8192 KB
  • Drive Ready Time (typical): 7 seconds
  • Average Seek Time: 8.9 ms
  • Track To Track Seek Time: 2.0 ms
  • Full Stroke Seek Time: 21.0 ms
  • Width: 101.6 mm (4.00 inch)
  • Depth: 147 mm (5.79 inch)
  • Height: 26.1 mm (1.03 inch)
  • Weight: 600 grams (1.32 pounds)
  • Acoustic (Idle): 3.5 Bel
  • Acoustic (Min performance and volume): 3.7 Bel
  • Acoustic (Max performance and volume): 3.9 Bel
  • Required Power For Spinup: 1055 mA
  • Power Required (Seek): 7.0 W
  • Power Required (Idle): 7.0 W
  • Power Required (Standby): 1.0 W
  • Manufacturer: Western Digital Corporation

Western Digital WD800JB Hard Drives:

WD800JB Western Digital 80GB IDE 3.5 Inch Hard Drive

  • WD800JB-22JJC0, DCM HSCANTJCH, Western Digital 80GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD800JB-22JJC0, DCM DSBANTJCA, Western Digital 80GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD800JB-22JJC0, DCM HSCANTJCA, Western Digital 80GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD800JB-00CRA1, DCM HSEHNT2AH, Western Digital 80GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD800JB-00JJA0, DCM HSBHNTJCH, Western Digital 80GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD800JB-22JJC0, DCM HSBANTJCH, Western Digital 80GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD800JB-22JJC0, DCM HCANTJCA, Western Digital 80GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD800JB-00ETA0, DCM HSBACVJAA, Western Digital 80GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD800JB-22JJC0, DCM DSBHNTJEH, Western Digital 80GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD800JB-00FSA0, DCM ESBHCTJCH, Western Digital 80GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD800JB-00ETA0, DCM HSBACTJAA, Western Digital 80GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD800JB-00FSA0, DCM HSCHCTJCH, Western Digital 80GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD800JB-00CRA1, DCM HRFHNA2AH, Western Digital 80GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD800JB-00JJA0, DCM HSBHNTJAH, Western Digital 80GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD800JB-00JJA0, DCM ESBHCTJAH, Western Digital 80GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD800JB-00FMA0, DCM HSBHCTJAH, Western Digital 80GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD800JB-00JJA0, DCM DSCAYTJCH, Western Digital 80GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD800JB-00CRA1, DCM HSEHNT2CH, Western Digital 80GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD800JB-00ETA0, DCM HSCHCVJAH, Western Digital 80GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD800JB-22JJC0, DCM HSBANTJCA, Western Digital 80GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD800JB-00JJA0, DCM HSBHYAJCA, Western Digital 80GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD800JB-00JJA0, DCM DSBANAJCA, Western Digital 80GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD800JB-00CRA1, DCM DSEHNV2CH, Western Digital 80GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD800JB-00JJA0, DCM HSBAYAJAH, Western Digital 80GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD800JB-00JJA0, DCM DSBANTJCA, Western Digital 80GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive

Western Digital WD800JB 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 WD800JB Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Western Digital WD800JB 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:
2060-001159-006, 2060-001102-002, 2060-001209-004, 2060-001292-001, 2060-701292-002, 2060-001102-003, 2060-001189-003, 2060-001292-000, etc.

Multiple Model Number revisions:
WD800JB-00FMA0, WD800JB-00ETA0, WD800JB-22JJC0, WD800JB-00CRA1, WD800JB-00FSA0, WD800JB-00JJA0, etc.