WD2001FASS Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 2TB and featuring a SATA interface. WD2001FASS Western Digital Caviar Black 2TB 7200RPM SATA 3GB/s 64MB Cache 3.5-inch Hard Drive.
All information about the Western Digital WD2001FASS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Western Digital WD2001FASS Technical Details:
- Hard Disk Model: WDC WD2001FASS
- Disk Family: Caviar Black
- Form Factor: 3.5″
- Capacity: 2 TB (2 x 1 000 000 000 000 bytes)
- Number Of Disks: 4
- Number Of Heads: 8
- 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: 65536 KB
- Drive Ready Time (typical): 21 seconds
- Width: 101.6 mm (4.00 inch)
- Depth: 147 mm (5.79 inch)
- Height: 25.4 mm (1.00 inch)
- Weight: 750 grams (1.65 pounds)
- Acoustic (Idle): 2.9 Bel
- Acoustic (Min performance and volume): 3.0 Bel
- Acoustic (Max performance and volume): 3.4 Bel
- Required Power For Spinup: 1515 mA
- Power Required (Seek): 10.7 W
- Power Required (Idle): 8.2 W
- Power Required (Standby): 1.3 W
- Manufacturer: Western Digital Corporation
Western Digital WD2001FASS Hard Drives:
- WD2001FASS-00U0B0, DCM HARCHV2AA, Western Digital 2TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2001FASS-00U0B0, DCM HARCHV2CA, Western Digital 2TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2001FASS-00W2B0, DCM HBRCNV2CB, Western Digital 2TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2001FASS-00U0B0, DCM HARCHV2CB, Western Digital 2TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2001FASS-00W2B0, DCM HARCHV2A, Western Digital 2TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2001FASS-00W2B0, DCM HARCNV2CB, Western Digital 2TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2001FASS-00U0B0, DCM HBRCHV2AB, Western Digital 2TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2001FASS-00W2B0, DCM HBRCHV2AA, Western Digital 2TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2001FASS-00W2B0, DCM HBBCNV2CB, Western Digital 2TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2001FASS-00W2B0, DCM HBRCHV2CB, Western Digital 2TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2001FASS-00W2B0, DCM HARCHV2CA, Western Digital 2TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2001FASS-00U0B0, DCM HARCNV2AB, Western Digital 2TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2001FASS-00W2B0, DCM HARCNV2CA, Western Digital 2TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2001FASS-00W2B0, DCM HBRCHV2CA, Western Digital 2TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2001FASS-00U0B0, DCM HBRCNV2AA, Western Digital 2TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2001FASS-00W2B0, DCM HARCHV2CB, Western Digital 2TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2001FASS-00U0B0, DCM HARCNV2AA, Western Digital 2TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2001FASS-00U0B0, DCM HBRCNV2CA, Western Digital 2TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2001FASS-00U0B0, DCM HBRCHV2CB, Western Digital 2TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
Western Digital WD2001FASS 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 WD2001FASS Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Western Digital WD2001FASS 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:
2060-771624-003, 2060-771624-001, etc.
Multiple Model Number revisions:
WD2001FASS-00W2B0, WD2001FASS-00U0B0, etc.