WD20NPVT Western Digital 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 2TB and featuring a SATA interface. WD20NPVT Western Digital Green 2TB 5400RPM (intellipower) SATA 3GB/s 2.5-inch 8MB Cache Internal Laptop Hard Drive.

All information about the Western Digital WD20NPVT hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Western Digital WD20NPVT Technical Details:

  • Hard Disk Model: WDC WD20NPVT
  • Disk Family: Green
  • Form Factor: 2.5″
  • Capacity: 2 TB (2 x 1 000 000 000 000 bytes)
  • Number Of Disks: 4
  • Number Of Heads: 8
  • Rotational Speed: 5200 RPM
  • Rotation Time: 11.54 ms
  • Average Rotational Latency: 5.77 ms
  • Disk Interface: Serial-ATA/300
  • Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 300 MB/seconds
  • Buffer Size: 8192 KB
  • Width: 69.85 mm (2.75 inch)
  • Depth: 100.2 mm (3.94 inch)
  • Height: 15 mm (0.59 inch)
  • Weight: 180 grams (0.40 pounds)
  • Acoustic (Idle): 2.4 Bel
  • Acoustic (Min performance and volume): 2.5 Bel
  • Acoustic (Max performance and volume): 2.5 Bel
  • Required Power For Spinup: 1000 mA
  • Power Required (Seek): 1.7 W
  • Power Required (Idle): 0.8 W
  • Power Required (Standby): 0.2 W
  • Manufacturer: Western Digital Corporation

Western Digital WD20NPVT Hard Drives:

WD20NPVT Western Digital 2TB SATA 2.5 Inch Hard Drive

  • WD20NPVT-11Z2TT0, DCM HBCVJBKB, Western Digital 2TB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD20NPVT-11Z2TT0, DCM EBCVJBBB, Western Digital 2TB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD20NPVT-11Z2TT0, DCM EBCVJHKB, Western Digital 2TB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD20NPVT-11Z2TT0, DCM HHOTJBKB, Western Digital 2TB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD20NPVT-00Z2TT0, DCM HBOTJHKB, Western Digital 2TB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD20NPVT-00Z2TT0, DCM EBMTJHBB, Western Digital 2TB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD20NPVT-11Z2TT0, DCM HBCVJBBB, Western Digital 2TB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD20NPVT-11Z2TT0, DCM HBOTJBKB, Western Digital 2TB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD20NPVT-00Z2TT0, DCM HBKTJHKB, Western Digital 2TB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD20NPVT-00Z2TT0, DCM EBKTJHKB, Western Digital 2TB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD20NPVT-00Z2TT0, DCM EBCTJHBB, Western Digital 2TB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD20NPVT-11Z2TT0, DCM EHCVJBBB, Western Digital 2TB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD20NPVT-11Z2TT0, DCM HHCVJHBB, Western Digital 2TB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD20NPVT-00Z2TT0, DCM EHOTJHBB, Western Digital 2TB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD20NPVT-00Z2TT0, DCM EHOTJHKB, Western Digital 2TB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD20NPVT-00Z2TT0, DCM EHMTJHBB, Western Digital 2TB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD20NPVT-00Z2TT0, DCM HHOTJHKB, Western Digital 2TB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD20NPVT-00Z2TT0, DCM EHCVJBKB, Western Digital 2TB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD20NPVT-00Z2TT0, DCM HBCVJHKB, Western Digital 2TB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive

Western Digital WD20NPVT 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 WD20NPVT Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Western Digital WD20NPVT 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:
2060-771823-000, 2060-771823-00, etc.

Multiple Model Number revisions:
WD20NPVT-11Z2TT0, WD20NPVT-00Z2TT0, etc.