WD1600JS Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 160GB and featuring a SATA interface. WD1600JS-18SHB2 Western Digital 160GB 7200RPM SATA 3Gb/s 3.5-inch Hard Drive.
All information about the Western Digital WD1600JS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Western Digital WD1600JS Technical Details:
- Hard Disk Model: WDC WD1600JS
- Disk Family: Caviar SE
- Form Factor: 3.5″
- Capacity: 160 GB (160 x 1 000 000 000 bytes)
- Number Of Disks: 1
- Number Of Heads: 2
- Rotational Speed: 7200 RPM
- Rotation Time: 8.33 ms
- Average Rotational Latency: 4.17 ms
- Disk Interface: Serial-ATA/300
- Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 300 MB/seconds
- Buffer Size: 8192 KB
- Drive Ready Time (typical): 12 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): 2.6 Bel
- Acoustic (Min performance and volume): 2.7 Bel
- Acoustic (Max performance and volume): 3.1 Bel
- Required Power For Spinup: 1250 mA
- Power Required (Seek): 9.5 W
- Power Required (Idle): 8.75 W
- Power Required (Standby): 1.6 W
- Manufacturer: Western Digital Corporation
Western Digital WD1600JS Hard Drives:
- WD1600JS-22MHB0, DCM DSBHNTJAH, Western Digital 160GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1600JS-22NCB1, DCM HSBHNT2AHN, Western Digital 160GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1600JS-40NGB2, DCM HBBHNT2CH, Western Digital 160GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1600JS-00MHB0, DCM DSCANT2AA, Western Digital 160GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1600JS-75NCB1, DCM DSBACTJAA, Western Digital 160GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1600JS-75NCB3, DCM HSBANTJAAN, Western Digital 160GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1600JS-75NCB1, DCM HSBACTJAA, Western Digital 160GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1600JS-75NCB1, DCM HSCACT2AA, Western Digital 160GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1600JS-40SGB0, DCM HSBHNT2CH, Western Digital 160GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1600JS-75NCB1, DCM DSBHCTJAH, Western Digital 160GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1600JS-60MHB1, DCM DSBHCTJAH, Western Digital 160GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1600JS-55NCB1, DCM HSCHNTJCHN, Western Digital 160GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1600JS-55NCB1, DCM HSBANTJCAN, Western Digital 160GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1600JS-55NCB1, DCM HSBHNTJCHN, Western Digital 160GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1600JS-55NCB1, DCM HSBHCT2AHN, Western Digital 160GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1600JS-40HGB2, DCM HSBANTJAH, Western Digital 160GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1600JS-40HGB2, DCM HBBHNT2AAN, Western Digital 160GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1600JS-40TGB0, DCM DSCHNT2CHN, Western Digital 160GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1600JS-60MHB5, DCM DBCHYTJCHN, Western Digital 160GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1600JS-75NCB3, DCM HSCACT2CAN, Western Digital 160GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1600JS-61MHB1, DCM HSBHYT2AAN, Western Digital 160GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1600JS-22NCB1, DCM HSBHCT2CH, Western Digital 160GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1600JS-60NCB1, DCM HSBANT2AH, Western Digital 160GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1600JS-61MHB1, DCM DSCANT2AAN, Western Digital 160GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1600JS-61MHB1, DCM HSBHNTJAAN, Western Digital 160GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
Western Digital WD1600JS 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 WD1600JS Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Western Digital WD1600JS 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:
2060-701355-005, 2060-701335-005, 2060-701335-003, etc.
Multiple Model Number revisions:
WD1600JS-60MHB1, WD1600JS-40HGB2, WD1600JS, WD1600JS-98MHB0, WD1600JS-58NCB1, WD1600JS-23MHB0, WD1600JS-00NCB1, WD1600JS-55MHB0, WD1600JS-22MHB0, WD1600JS-88MHB0, WD1600JS-00SGB0, WD1600JS-22NCB1, WD1600JS-75NCB1, WD1600JS-40MVB1, WD1600JS-40NGB2, WD1600JS-55MHB1, WD1600JS-40TGB0, WD1600JS-40SGB0, WD1600JS-41MVB1, WD1600JS-00MHB0, WD1600JS-00MHB5, WD1600JS-00MVB1, WD1600JS-60MHB5, WD1600JS-75NCB3, WD1600JS-75NCB2, WD1600JS-61MHB1, WD1600JS-60NCB1, WD1600JS-00MHB1, WD1600JS-70SGB1, WD1600JS-55NCB1, WD1600JS-56MHB1, WD1600JS-08NCB1, WD1600JS-08MHB0, WD1600JS-75MHB0, etc.