WD3200AAVS Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 320GB and featuring a SATA interface. WD3200AAVS Western Digital AV-GP 320GB 7200RPM SATA 3GB/s 8MB Cache 3.5-inch Internal Hard Disk Drive.
All information about the Western Digital WD3200AAVS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Western Digital WD3200AAVS Technical Details:
- Hard Disk Model: WDC WD3200AAVS
- Disk Family: Caviar Green
- Form Factor: 3.5″
- Capacity: 320 GB (320 x 1 000 000 000 bytes)
- Number Of Disks: 1
- Number Of Heads: 2
- Disk Interface: Serial-ATA/300
- Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 300 MB/seconds
- Buffer Size: 8192 KB
- Drive Ready Time (typical): 14.3 seconds
- Width: 101.6 mm (4.00 inch)
- Depth: 147 mm (5.79 inch)
- Height: 25.4 mm (1.00 inch)
- Weight: 600 grams (1.32 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: 1392 mA
- Power Required (Seek): 5.4 W
- Power Required (Idle): 2.5 W
- Power Required (Standby): 0.46 W
- Manufacturer: Western Digital Corporation
Western Digital WD3200AAVS Hard Drives:
- WD3200AAVS-00ZTB0, DCM HARCNT2MHB, Western Digital 320GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD3200AAVS-00ZTB0, DCM HHRCHT2CB, Western Digital 320GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD3200AAVS-00ZTB0, DCM DHNCHT2AHB, Western Digital 320GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD3200AAVS-32G9B1, DCM HHNNNT2MHN, Western Digital 320GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD3200AAVS-00ZTB0, DCM DGRCHTJMBB, Western Digital 320GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD3200AAVS-00ZTB0, DCM HBRCNT2CH, Western Digital 320GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD3200AAVS-00ZTB0, DCM DHRNHTJABB, Western Digital 320GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD3200AAVS-00ZTB0, DCM HBRNHTJMHB, Western Digital 320GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD3200AAVS-00ZTB0, DCM DBRNHT2MBB, Western Digital 320GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD3200AAVS-00ZTB0, DCM HHNCNT2CA, Western Digital 320GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD3200AAVS-00ZTB0, DCM HARCHT2MHB, Western Digital 320GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD3200AAVS-00ZTB0, DCM DHRCHTJMBB, Western Digital 320GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD3200AAVS-00ZTB0, DCM DGRNHT2MGN, Western Digital 320GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD3200AAVS-00ZTB0, DCM DARCHTJMAB, Western Digital 320GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD3200AAVS-00ZTB0, DCM DHRCNTJMHB, Western Digital 320GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD3200AAVS-00ZTB0, DCM DANNHTJMHB, Western Digital 320GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
Western Digital WD3200AAVS 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 WD3200AAVS Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Western Digital WD3200AAVS 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:
2060-701590-000, 2060-701444-004, 2060-701477-002, etc.
Multiple Model Number revisions:
WD3200AAVS-32G9B1, WD3200AAVS-00ZTB0, etc.