WD2502ABYS Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 250GB and featuring a SATA interface. WD2502ABYS-06 Western Digital 250GB 7200RPM SATA 3Gb/s 3.5-inch Hard Drive.
All information about the Western Digital WD2502ABYS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Western Digital WD2502ABYS Technical Details:
- Hard Disk Model: WDC WD2502ABYS
- Disk Family: RE3
- Form Factor: 3.5″
- Capacity: 250 GB (250 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: 16384 KB
- Drive Ready Time (typical): 6.5 seconds
- Width: 101.6 mm (4.00 inch)
- Depth: 147 mm (5.79 inch)
- Height: 26.1 mm (1.03 inch)
- Weight: 440 grams (0.97 pounds)
- Acoustic (Idle): 2.8 Bel
- Acoustic (Min performance and volume): 3.0 Bel
- Acoustic (Max performance and volume): 3.4 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 WD2502ABYS Hard Drives:
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- WD2502ABYS-18B7A0, DCM DANNHT2AAN, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2502ABYS-23B7A0, DCM HHRNNT2CA, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2502ABYS-01B7A0, DCM HARNHT2AAN, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2502ABYS-01B7A0, DCM HANNNT2AAN, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2502ABYS-23B7A0, DCM DBRNHT2CBN, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2502ABYS-23B7A0, DCM DGRNNT2AAN, IBM 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
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- WD2502ABYS-70B7A0, DCM DHNNHT2AHN, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2502ABYS-02B7A0, DCM HARNNT2AGB, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2502ABYS-70B7A0, DCM HARNHT2ABN, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2502ABYS-70B7A0, DCM DARNHT2AAN, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2502ABYS-02B7A0, DCM DGRNHT2CGN, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2502ABYS-02B7A0, DCM HGNNNT2AHN, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2502ABYS-18B7A0, DCM HHRNHTJAHN, Dell 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2502ABYS-02B7A0, DCM HHNNHT2AGN, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2502ABYS-70B7A0, DCM DGRNHT2AGN, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2502ABYS-01B7A0, DCM DHRNHT2CHN, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2502ABYS-02B7A0, DCM DHRNHT2AGN, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2502ABYS-01B7A0, DCM HGRNNTJAGN, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2502ABYS-02B7A0, DCM HGRNNT2AHN, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2502ABYS-18B7A0, DCM HANNNV2AAN, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2502ABYS-01B7A0, DCM DBNNNT2AHN, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2502ABYS-01B7A0, DCM HGRNHV2AGN, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2502ABYS-01B7A0, DCM DBRNNV2AGN, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
Western Digital WD2502ABYS 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 WD2502ABYS Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Western Digital WD2502ABYS 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:
2060-701537-004, etc.
Multiple Model Number revisions:
WD2502ABYS-23B7A0, WD2502ABYS-70B7A0, WD2502ABYS-02B7A0, WD2502ABYS-18B7A0, WD2502ABYS-01B7A0, etc.