WD20EARS Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 2TB and featuring a SATA interface. WD20EARS-07MVWB0 Western Digital 2TB 5400RPM SATA 3Gb/s 3.5-inch Hard Drive.
All information about the Western Digital WD20EARS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Western Digital WD20EARS Technical Details:
- Hard Disk Model: WDC WD20EARS
- 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: 65536 KB
- Width: 101.6 mm (4.00 inch)
- Depth: 147 mm (5.79 inch)
- Height: 25.4 mm (1.00 inch)
- Weight: 640 grams (1.41 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 WD20EARS Hard Drives:
- WD20EARS-42S0XB0, DCM HARCHV2AAB, Western Digital 2TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD20EARS-00S8B1, DCM HBRNHT2AAB, Western Digital 2TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WESTERN DIGITAL 3.5" 2.0 TB SATA HARD DRIVE WD20EARS
- WD20EARS-42S0XB0, DCM HARCNV2AAB, Western Digital 2TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD20EARS-00J99B0, DCM HARCHV2ABB, Western Digital 2TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD20EARS-11J2GB0, DCM HARNHT2AAB, Western Digital 2TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD20EARS-42S0XB0, DCM HBRCHV2ABB, Western Digital 2TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD20EARS-00J99B0, DCM HARCHT2AAB, Western Digital 2TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD20EARS-00MVWB0, DCM HARNHTJMB, Western Digital 2TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD20EARS-60MVWB0, DCM HBRNHTJMAB, Western Digital 2TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD20EARS-00MVWB0, DCM HBRNHTJMAB, Western Digital 2TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD20EARS-22MVWB0, DCM HHRNHTJCAB, Western Digital 2TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD20EARS-42S0XB0, DCM HARCNT2AAB, Western Digital 2TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD20EARS-42S0XB0, DCM HARCNT2ABB, Western Digital 2TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD20EARS-00MVWB0, DCM HBNNHTJMB, Western Digital 2TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD20EARS-42S0XB0, DCM HARCHT2ABB, Western Digital 2TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD20EARS-22MVWB0, DCM HBRNHTJCH, Western Digital 2TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD20EARS-00MVWB1, DCM HHRNNTJMAB, Western Digital 2TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD20EARS-42S0XB0, DCM HBRCHV2AAB, Western Digital 2TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD20EARS-00MVWB0, DCM HHRNNTJCA, Western Digital 2TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD20EARS-07MVWB0, DCM HBRNHTJCBB, Western Digital 2TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD20EARS-42S0XB0, DCM HBRCNV2AAB, Western Digital 2TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD20EARS-00J2GB0, DCM HARNHT2ABB, Western Digital 2TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD20EARS-22MVWB0, DCM HBNNNTJMBB, Western Digital 2TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD20EARS-22MVWB0, DCM HHRNHTJMAB, Western Digital 2TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
Western Digital WD20EARS 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 WD20EARS Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Western Digital WD20EARS 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:
2060-771716-001, 2060-771698-001, 2060-771698-004, 2060-771642-001, 2060-701640-007, 2060-771698-002, etc.
Multiple Model Number revisions:
WD20EARS-11J2GB0, WD20EARS-07MVWB0, WD20EARS-00MVWB1, WD20EARS-00J99B0, WD20EARS-60MVWB0, WD20EARS-22MVWB0, WD20EARS-42S0XB0, WD20EARS-00S8B1, WD20EARS-00MVWB0, WD20EARS-00J2GB0, WD20EARS-00S0XB0, etc.