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-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.