WD40E31X Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 4TB and featuring a SATA interface. WD40E31X Western Digital Blue 4TB SATA 6GB/s 64MB Cache 3.5-inch Internal Desktop Solid State Hybrid Drive.
All information about the Western Digital WD40E31X hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Western Digital WD40E31X Technical Details:
- Manufacturer: Western Digital
- Manufacturer Part No: WD40E31X-00HY4A0
- Product Series or Family: WD Blue
- Product Type: Internal Hard Drive
- Storage Capacity: 4TB
- Spindle Speed: 5400RPM
- Drive Interface: SATA
- Form Factor: 3.5Inch
- Cache: 64MB
Western Digital WD40E31X Hard Drives:
- WD40E31X-00HY4A0, DCM HANNHT2CAB, Western Digital 4TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD40E31X-00HY4A0, DCM HANNNT2MAB, Western Digital 4TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD40E31X-00HY4A0, DCM HANNNT2CAB, Western Digital 4TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
Western Digital WD40E31X 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 WD40E31X Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Western Digital WD40E31X 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:
2060-800021-001, etc.Multiple Model Number revisions:
WD40E31X-00HY4A0, etc.
