WD20EADS Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 2TB and featuring a SATA interface. WD20EADS-14R6B0 Western Digital 2TB 5400RPM SATA 3Gb/s 3.5-inch Hard Drive.
All information about the Western Digital WD20EADS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Western Digital WD20EADS Technical Details:
- Hard Disk Model: WDC WD20EADS
- Disk Family: Caviar Green
- Form Factor: 3.5″
- Capacity: 2 TB (2 x 1 000 000 000 000 bytes)
- Number Of Disks: 4
- Number Of Heads: 8
- Disk Interface: Serial-ATA/300
- Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 300 MB/seconds
- Buffer Size: 32768 KB
- Drive Ready Time (typical): 14.5 seconds
- Width: 101.6 mm (4.00 inch)
- Depth: 147 mm (5.79 inch)
- Height: 26.1 mm (1.03 inch)
- Weight: 730 grams (1.61 pounds)
- Acoustic (Idle): 2.4 Bel
- Acoustic (Min performance and volume): 2.5 Bel
- Acoustic (Max performance and volume): 2.9 Bel
- Required Power For Spinup: 1759 mA
- Power Required (Seek): 6 W
- Power Required (Idle): 3.7 W
- Power Required (Standby): 0.8 W
- Manufacturer: Western Digital Corporation
Western Digital WD20EADS Hard Drives:
- WD20EADS-32S2B0, DCM HARCHV2ABB, Western Digital 2TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD20EADS-00R6B0, DCM HARNHV2AAB, Western Digital 2TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD20EADS-00R6B0, DCM HBRCHV2AAB, Western Digital 2TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD20EADS-00S2B0, DCM HARCHV2AAB, Western Digital 2TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD20EADS-32R6B0, DCM HBRCHV2ABB, Western Digital 2TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD20EADS-11R6B1, DCM HARNHT2ABB, Western Digital 2TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD20EADS-00R6B0, DCM HARCNV2AAB, Western Digital 2TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD20EADS-00R6B0, DCM HARCHV2AAB, Western Digital 2TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD20EADS-42R6B0, DCM HARCHV2AAB, Western Digital 2TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD20EADS-11R6B1, DCM HARCHT2AA, Western Digital 2TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD20EADS-00R6B0, DCM HARNHV2CBB, Western Digital 2TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD20EADS-14R6B0, DCM HARCNV2AAB, Western Digital 2TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD20EADS-65R6B0, DCM HBRCHV2ABB, Western Digital 2TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD20EADS-32S2B0, DCM HARCHV2AA, Western Digital 2TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD20EADS-42R6B0, DCM HARCNV2ABB, Western Digital 2TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD20EADS-11R6B1, DCM HBRNHT2AAB, Western Digital 2TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD20EADS-42R6B0, DCM HARCHV2ABB, Western Digital 2TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD20EADS-11R6B1, DCM HARNNT2AA, Western Digital 2TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD20EADS-14R6B0, DCM HARCHV2AAB, Western Digital 2TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD20EADS-65R6B0, DCM HARCNV2ABB, Western Digital 2TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD20EADS-42R6B0, DCM HARCHV2CBB, Western Digital 2TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD20EADS-11R6B1, DCM HBRCHT2ABB, Western Digital 2TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD20EADS-00S2B0, DCM HBRCHV2ABB, Western Digital 2TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD20EADS-11R6B1, DCM HARCHT2AAB, Western Digital 2TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD20EADS-55R6B0, DCM HBRCNV2ABB, Western Digital 2TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
Western Digital WD20EADS 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 WD20EADS Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Western Digital WD20EADS 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:
2060-771642-001, 2060-771642-000, 2060-771642-003, etc.
Multiple Model Number revisions:
WD20EADS-32R6B0, WD20EADS-65R6B0, WD20EADS-55R6B0, WD20EADS-65R6B1, WD20EADS-14R6B0, WD20EADS-42R6B0, WD20EADS-32S2B0, WD20EADS-22R6B0, WD20EADS-11R6B1, WD20EADS-00S2B0, WD20EADS-00R6B0, WD20EADS-00W4B0, etc.