WD5000BPVX Western Digital 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a SATA interface. WD5000BPVX Western Digital Blue 500GB 5400RPM SATA 6Gbps 8MB Cache 2.5-inch Hard Drive.

All information about the Western Digital WD5000BPVX hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Western Digital WD5000BPVX Technical Details:

  • Hard Disk Model: WDC WD5000BPVX
  • Disk Family: Scorpio Blue
  • Form Factor: 2.5″
  • Capacity: 500 GB (500 x 1 000 000 000 bytes)
  • Number Of Disks: 2
  • Number Of Heads: 3
  • Rotational Speed: 5400 RPM
  • Rotation Time: 11.11 ms
  • Average Rotational Latency: 5.56 ms
  • Disk Interface: Serial-ATA/600
  • Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 600 MB/seconds
  • Buffer Size: 8192 KB
  • Drive Ready Time (typical): 3 seconds
  • Width: 69.85 mm (2.75 inch)
  • Depth: 100.2 mm (3.94 inch)
  • Height: 7 mm (0.28 inch)
  • Weight: 120 grams (0.26 pounds)
  • Acoustic (Idle): 2.4 Bel
  • Acoustic (Min performance and volume): 2.5 Bel
  • Acoustic (Max performance and volume): 2.5 Bel
  • Required Power For Spinup: 1000 mA
  • Power Required (Seek): 1.4 W
  • Power Required (Idle): 0.59 W
  • Power Required (Standby): 0.18 W
  • Manufacturer: Western Digital Corporation

Western Digital WD5000BPVX Hard Drives:

WD5000BPVX Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5 Inch Hard Drive

  • WD5000BPVX-00JC3T0, DCM HBOTJBB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000BPVX-00JC3T0, DCM HBMT2BK, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000BPVX-00JC3T0, DCM HBMTJHK, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000BPVX-00JC3T0, DCM HHKTJHN, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000BPVX-00JC3T0, DCM HHMT2HB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000BPVX-00JC3T0, DCM HBKTJBN, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000BPVX-00JC3T0, DCM EHOTJHN, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000BPVX-00JC3T0, DCM HBKT2BK, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000BPVX-00JC3T0, DCM HHMTJHK, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000BPVX-00JC3T0, DCM HBMTJHN, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000BPVX-00JC3T0, DCM EHKTJHK, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000BPVX-00JC3T0, DCM SHKTJHN, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000BPVX-00JC3T0, DCM HBNTJBK, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000BPVX-00JC3T0, DCM EHOTJHK, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000BPVX-00JC3T0, DCM HBMTJBB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000BPVX-00JC3T0, DCM HHMTJHB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000BPVX-00JC3T0, DCM HHJT2HB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000BPVX-00JC3T0, DCM HHNTJHB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000BPVX-00JC3T0, DCM SBMT2BK, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000BPVX-00JC3T0, DCM HHNTJHK, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000BPVX-00JC3T0, DCM HHJT2BK, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000BPVX-00JC3T0, DCM SBOTJHN, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000BPVX-00JC3T0, DCM HHMT2HN, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000BPVX-00JC3T0, DCM HBNT2HK, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000BPVX-00JC3T0, DCM HBKTJHN, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive

Western Digital WD5000BPVX 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 WD5000BPVX Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Western Digital WD5000BPVX 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:
2060-771960-000, etc.

Multiple Model Number revisions:
WD5000BPVX, WD5000BPVX-00JC3T0, etc.