WD2500SD Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 250GB and featuring a SATA interface.
All information about the Western Digital WD2500SD hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Western Digital WD2500SD Technical Details:
- Hard Disk Model: Western Digital WD2500SD
- Disk Family: Caviar RE (RAID Edition)
- Form Factor: 3.5″
- Capacity: 250 GB (250 000 000 000 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: SATA 1.5 Gb/s (SATA I)
- Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 150.0 MB/seconds
- Buffer Size: 8 MB (8.0 MB)
- Drive Ready Time (typical): 5.2 seconds
- Average Seek Time: 8.9 ms
- Track To Track Seek Time: 2.0 ms
- Width: 101.6 mm (4.00 inch)
- Depth: 147.0 mm (5.79 inch)
- Height: 26.1 mm (1.03 inch)
- Weight: 640 grams (1.41 pounds)
- Acoustic (Idle): 2.8 Bel
- Acoustic (Min performance and volume): 2.8 Bel
- Acoustic (Max performance and volume): 3.4 Bel
- Required Power For Spinup: 12V / 5V (Peak 2.0A)
- Power Required (Seek): 8.0 W
- Power Required (Idle): 5.8 W
- Power Required (Standby): 0.9 W
- Manufacturer: Western Digital Corporation
Western Digital WD2500SD Hard Drives:
- WD2500SD-01KCB0, DCM HSBHCTJAH, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2500SD-01KCB0, DCM HSBHCTJAA, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2500SD-01KCC0, DCM HSBACTJAA, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2500SD-01KCC0, DCM DSBHCTJAH, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2500SD-01KCC0, DCM DSBHCTJCH, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2500SD-01KCC0, DCM DSCHCTJAA, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2500SD-01KCC0, DCM HSBHCTJAH, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2500SD-01KCB0, DCM HSCHCTJAH, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
Western Digital WD2500SD 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 WD2500SD Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Western Digital WD2500SD 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:
2060-701267-001, 2060-001267-001, etc.
Multiple Model Number revisions:
WD2500SD-01KCC0, WD2500SD-01KCB0, etc.