WD4000YR Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 400GB and featuring a SATA interface. WD4000YR Western Digital Caviar Re2 400GB 7200RPM SATA 7-Pin Hard Drive for Enterprise Storage. 16MB Cache 3.5-inch Low Profile (1.0 inch).
All information about the Western Digital WD4000YR hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Western Digital WD4000YR Technical Details:
- Manufacturer: Western Digital
- Manufacturer Website: www.wdc.com
- Manufacturer Part No: WD4000YR
- Product Series or Family: Caviar RE2
- Product Type: Internal Hard Drive
- Storage Capacity: 400GB
- Spindle Speed: 7200RPM
- Drive Interface: SATA 1.5Gbps
- Form Factor: 3.5Inch
- Cache: 16MB
Western Digital WD4000YR Hard Drives:
- WD4000YR-01PLB0, DCM HBHCAJAH, Western Digital 400GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD4000YR-01PLB0, DCM HCHCAJAH, Western Digital 400GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD4000YR-01PLB0, DCM HBACA2CA, Western Digital 400GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD4000YR-01PLB0, DCM HBHCAJCH, Western Digital 400GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD4000YR-01PLB0, DCM HCACAJCA, Western Digital 400GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD4000YR-01PLB0, DCM HCHCAJAA, Western Digital 400GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD4000YR-01PLB0, DCM HBACAJAH, Western Digital 400GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD4000YR-01PLB0, DCM HCACAJAA, Western Digital 400GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD4000YR-01PLB0, DCM HCACA2AH, Western Digital 400GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD4000YR-01PLB0, DCM HBACAJCA, Western Digital 400GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD4000YR-01PLB0, DCM HCACAJAH, Western Digital 400GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD4000YR-01PLB0, DCM HBHCAJAA, Western Digital 400GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
Western Digital WD4000YR 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 WD4000YR Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Western Digital WD4000YR 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:
2060-701310-004, etc.
Multiple Model Number revisions:
WD4000YR-01PLB0, etc.