WD3200LPVT Western Digital 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 320GB and featuring a SATA interface. WD3200LPVT-22G33T0 Western Digital 320GB 5400RPM SATA 3Gb/s 2.5-inch Hard Drive.

All information about the Western Digital WD3200LPVT hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Western Digital WD3200LPVT Technical Details:

  • Hard Disk Model: WDC WD3200LPVT
  • Disk Family: Scorpio Blue
  • Form Factor: 2.5″
  • Capacity: 320 GB (320 x 1 000 000 000 bytes)
  • 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): 3.5 seconds
  • Width: 69.85 mm (2.75 inch)
  • Depth: 100.2 mm (3.94 inch)
  • Height: 7 mm (0.28 inch)
  • Weight: 90 grams (0.20 pounds)
  • Acoustic (Idle): 1.7 Bel
  • Acoustic (Min performance and volume): 2.2 Bel
  • Acoustic (Max performance and volume): 2.2 Bel
  • Required Power For Spinup: 1000 mA
  • Power Required (Seek): 1.4 W
  • Power Required (Idle): 0.55 W
  • Power Required (Standby): 0.13 W
  • Manufacturer: Western Digital Corporation

Western Digital WD3200LPVT Hard Drives:

WD3200LPVT Western Digital 320GB SATA 2.5 Inch Hard Drive

  • WD3200LPVT-35G33T0, DCM HBCVJBN, Western Digital 320GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD3200LPVT-22G33T0, DCM HACVJHNB, Western Digital 320GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD3200LPVT-08G33T1, DCM HBOTJBN, Western Digital 320GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD3200LPVT-75G33T0, DCM HACVJBBB, Western Digital 320GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD3200LPVT-75G33T0, DCM HHOVJABB, Western Digital 320GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD3200LPVT-00G33T0, DCM HACVJBN, Western Digital 320GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD3200LPVT-22G33T0, DCM HACVJAB, Western Digital 320GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive

Western Digital WD3200LPVT 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 WD3200LPVT Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Western Digital WD3200LPVT 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:
2060-771852-004, 2060-771852-001, etc.

Multiple Model Number revisions:
WD3200LPVT-35G33T0, WD3200LPVT-08G33T1, WD3200LPVT-75G33T0, WD3200LPVT-00G33T0, WD3200LPVT-22G33T0, etc.