WD3000JS Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 300GB and featuring a SATA interface. WD3000JS-22PDB0 Western Digital 300GB 7200RPM SATA 3Gb/s 3.5-inch Hard Drive.

All information about the Western Digital WD3000JS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Western Digital WD3000JS Technical Details:

  • Manufacturer: Western Digital
  • Manufacturer Website: www.wdc.com
  • Manufacturer Part No: WD3000JS-00PDB0
  • Product Series or Family: Caviar SE
  • Product Type: Internal Hard Drive
  • Storage Capacity: 300GB
  • Spindle Speed: 7200RPM
  • Drive Interface: SATA 3.0Gbps
  • Form Factor: 3.5Inch
  • Cache: 8MB

Western Digital WD3000JS Hard Drives:

WD3000JS Western Digital 300GB SATA 3.5 Inch Hard Drive

  • Western Digital WD3000JS, 7200RPM, 3.0Gp/s, 300GB SATA 3.5″ HDD
  • WD3000JS-98PDB0, DCM HSBHCAJCH, Western Digital 300GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD3000JS-60PDB0, DCM HSBHCAJCH, Western Digital 300GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD3000JS-60PDB0, DCM HSCHCAJCH, Western Digital 300GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD3000JS-00PDB0, DCM HHBHCA2CH, Western Digital 300GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD3000JS-60PDB0, DCM HSBACAJCH, Western Digital 300GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD3000JS-00PDB0, DCM HSBHCAJAH, Western Digital 300GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD3000JS-60PDB0, DCM DSBACAJAA, Western Digital 300GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD3000JS-60PDB0, DCM HSCACAJCA, Western Digital 300GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive

Western Digital WD3000JS 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 WD3000JS Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Western Digital WD3000JS 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:
2060-701393-002, etc.

Multiple Model Number revisions:
WD3000JS, WD3000JS-98PDB0, WD3000JS-00PDB0, WD3000JS-60PDB0, etc.