WD3000GLFS Western Digital 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 300GB and featuring a SATA interface. WD3000GLFS Western Digital Velociraptor 300GB 10000RPM SATA 3GB/s 7-Pin 16MB Cache 3.5-inch Low Profile (1.0 inch) Hard Drive.
All information about the Western Digital WD3000GLFS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Western Digital WD3000GLFS Technical Details:
- Hard Disk Model: WDC WD3000GLFS
- Disk Family: VelociRaptor
- Form Factor: 3.5″
- Capacity: 300 GB (300 x 1 000 000 000 bytes)
- Number Of Disks: 2
- Number Of Heads: 4
- Rotational Speed: 10000 RPM
- Rotation Time: 6.00 ms
- Average Rotational Latency: 3.00 ms
- Disk Interface: Serial-ATA/300
- Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 300 MB/seconds
- Buffer Size: 16384 KB
- Drive Ready Time (typical): 7 seconds
- Average Seek Time: 4.2 ms
- Track To Track Seek Time: 0.7 ms
- Acoustic (Idle): 2.9 Bel
- Acoustic (Min performance and volume): 3.6 Bel
- Acoustic (Max performance and volume): 3.6 Bel
- Required Power For Spinup: 900 mA
- Power Required (Seek): 6.08 W
- Power Required (Idle): 4.53 W
- Power Required (Standby): 0.42 W
- Manufacturer: Western Digital Corporation
Western Digital WD3000GLFS Hard Drives:
- WD3000GLFS-01F8U0, DCM EBCV2B, Western Digital 300GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- WD3000GLFS-01F8U0, DCM EHCV2H, Western Digital 300GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- WD3000GLFS-01F8U0, DCM EBCV2H, Western Digital 300GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
Western Digital WD3000GLFS 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 WD3000GLFS Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Western Digital WD3000GLFS 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:
2060-701543-003, etc.
Multiple Model Number revisions:
WD3000GLFS-01F8U0, etc.