WD3200BPVT Western Digital 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 320GB and featuring a SATA interface. WD3200BPVT-24ZEST0 Western Digital 320GB 5400RPM SATA 3Gb/s 2.5-inch Hard Drive.

All information about the Western Digital WD3200BPVT hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Western Digital WD3200BPVT Technical Details:

  • Hard Disk Model: WDC WD3200BPVT
  • Disk Family: Scorpio Blue
  • Form Factor: 2.5″
  • Capacity: 320 GB (320 x 1 000 000 000 bytes)
  • Number Of Disks: 1
  • Number Of Heads: 2
  • Rotational Speed: 5400 RPM
  • Rotation Time: 11.11 ms
  • Average Rotational Latency: 5.56 ms
  • Disk Interface: Serial-ATA/300
  • Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 300 MB/seconds
  • Buffer Size: 8192 KB
  • Drive Ready Time (typical): 4 seconds
  • Average Seek Time: 12 ms
  • Track To Track Seek Time: 2 ms
  • Width: 69.85 mm (2.75 inch)
  • Depth: 100.2 mm (3.94 inch)
  • Height: 9.5 mm (0.37 inch)
  • Weight: 100 grams (0.22 pounds)
  • Acoustic (Idle): 2.4 Bel
  • Acoustic (Min performance and volume): 2.6 Bel
  • Acoustic (Max performance and volume): 2.6 Bel
  • Required Power For Spinup: 500 mA
  • Power Required (Seek): 2.5 W
  • Power Required (Idle): 2.0 W
  • Power Required (Standby): 0.25 W
  • Manufacturer: Western Digital Corporation

Western Digital WD3200BPVT Hard Drives:

WD3200BPVT Western Digital 320GB SATA 2.5 Inch Hard Drive

  • WD3200BPVT-22ZEST0, DCM HHMTJHB, Western Digital 320GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD3200BPVT-24JJ5T0, DCM SHMVJAB, Western Digital 320GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD3200BPVT-60JJ5T0, DCM HEMVJHB, Western Digital 320GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD3200BPVT-75ZEST0, DCM HEMTJHNB, Western Digital 320GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD3200BPVT-22JJ5T0, DCM HEMTJHB, Western Digital 320GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD3200BPVT-22ZEST0, DCM EHCTJHNB, Western Digital 320GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD3200BPVT-16ZEST0, DCM HHBVJHKB, Western Digital 320GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD3200BPVT-75ZEST0, DCM HEBVJHB, Western Digital 320GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD3200BPVT-75ZEST0, DCM HHMTJHB, Western Digital 320GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD3200BPVT-22ZEST0, DCM HEMTJANB, Western Digital 320GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD3200BPVT-22ZEST0, DCM HHMTJHBB, Western Digital 320GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WESTERN DIGITAL WD3200BPVT, 5400RPM, 3.0Gp/s, 320GB SATA 2.5″ HDD
  • WD3200BPVT-75JJ5T0, DCM SHMTJAK, Western Digital 320GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD3200BPVT-75ZEST0, DCM HHCTJAB, Western Digital 320GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD3200BPVT-22ZEST0, DCM HECVJHB, Western Digital 320GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD3200BPVT-35ZEST0, DCM EHMTJHBB, Western Digital 320GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD3200BPVT-22ZEST0, DCM HHCVJHBB, Western Digital 320GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD3200BPVT-75JJ5T0, DCM HHMTJAK, Western Digital 320GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD3200BPVT-60JJ5T0, DCM HHMTJGK, Western Digital 320GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD3200BPVT-60JJ5T0, DCM DHMTJGK, Western Digital 320GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD3200BPVT-22JJ5T0, DCM HHMTJHK, Western Digital 320GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD3200BPVT-22JJ5T0, DCM HHMTJGB, Western Digital 320GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD3200BPVT-24ZEST0, DCM HEMTJHB, Western Digital 320GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD3200BPVT-00HXZT1, DCM HHCVJHB, Western Digital 320GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD3200BPVT-22JJ5T0, DCM SEMTJGB, Western Digital 320GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive

Western Digital WD3200BPVT 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 WD3200BPVT Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Western Digital WD3200BPVT 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:
2060-771692-002, 2060-771692-005, 2060-771820-000, 2060-771672-004, etc.

Multiple Model Number revisions:
WD3200BPVT-16ZEST0, WD3200BPVT, WD3200BPVT-75ZEST0, WD3200BPVT-22ZEST0, WD3200BPVT-80ZEST0, WD3200BPVT-35ZEST0, WD3200BPVT-24ZEST0, WD3200BPVT-00JJ5T0, WD3200BPVT-11HXZT3, WD3200BPVT-08JJ5T0, WD3200BPVT-75JJ5T0, WD3200BPVT-24JJ5T0, WD3200BPVT-60JJ5T0, WD3200BPVT-00ZEST0, WD3200BPVT-80JJ5T0, WD3200BPVT-22JJ5T0, WD3200BPVT-00HXZT1, WD3200BPVT-00HXZT3, etc.