WD1600BEKX Western Digital 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 160GB and featuring a SATA interface. WD1600BEKX Western Digital Black 160GB 7200RPM SATA 6Gbps 16MB Cache 2.5-inch Internal Hard Drive.

All information about the Western Digital WD1600BEKX hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Western Digital WD1600BEKX Technical Details:

  • Hard Disk Model: WDC WD1600BEKX
  • Disk Family: Scorpio Black
  • Form Factor: 2.5″
  • Capacity: 160 GB (160 x 1 000 000 000 bytes)
  • Rotational Speed: 7200 RPM
  • Rotation Time: 8.33 ms
  • Average Rotational Latency: 4.17 ms
  • Disk Interface: Serial-ATA/600
  • Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 600 MB/seconds
  • Buffer Size: 16384 KB
  • Drive Ready Time (typical): 3 seconds
  • Average Seek Time: 12 ms
  • Track To Track Seek Time: 2 ms
  • Width: 69.85 mm (2.75 inch)
  • Depth: 100.2 mm (3.94 inch)
  • Height: 9.5 mm (0.37 inch)
  • Weight: 106 grams (0.23 pounds)
  • Manufacturer: Western Digital Corporation

Western Digital WD1600BEKX Hard Drives:

WD1600BEKX Western Digital 160GB SATA 2.5 Inch Hard Drive

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Western Digital WD1600BEKX 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 WD1600BEKX Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Western Digital WD1600BEKX 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:
2060-771692-006, etc.

Multiple Model Number revisions:
WD1600BEKX-00B7WT0, etc.