WD5000LPVT Western Digital 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a SATA interface. WD5000LPVT Western Digital Scorpio Blue 500GB 5400RPM SATA 3GB/s 7-Pin 8MB Cache 2.5-inch Mobile Hard Drive.
All information about the Western Digital WD5000LPVT hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Western Digital WD5000LPVT Technical Details:
- Hard Disk Model: WDC WD5000LPVT
- Disk Family: Scorpio Blue
- Form Factor: 2.5″
- Capacity: 500 GB (500 x 1 000 000 000 bytes)
- Rotational Speed: 5400 RPM
- Rotation Time: 11.11 ms
- Average Rotational Latency: 5.56 ms
- Disk Interface: Serial-ATA/300
- Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 300 MB/seconds
- Buffer Size: 8192 KB
- Drive Ready Time (typical): 3.5 seconds
- Width: 69.85 mm (2.75 inch)
- Depth: 100.2 mm (3.94 inch)
- Height: 7 mm (0.28 inch)
- Weight: 90 grams (0.20 pounds)
- Acoustic (Idle): 1.7 Bel
- Acoustic (Min performance and volume): 2.2 Bel
- Acoustic (Max performance and volume): 2.2 Bel
- Required Power For Spinup: 900 mA
- Power Required (Seek): 1.4 W
- Power Required (Idle): 0.55 W
- Power Required (Standby): 0.13 W
- Manufacturer: Western Digital Corporation
Western Digital WD5000LPVT Hard Drives:
- WD5000LPVT-22G33T0, DCM HHOTJHB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000LPVT-75G33T0, DCM HHCTJHBB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000LPVT-22G33T0, DCM HHCVJHB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000LPVT-16G33T0, DCM HBCVJHB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000LPVT-60G33T0, DCM HHCTJBB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000LPVT-75G33T0, DCM HHCTJBBB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000LPVT-22G33T0, DCM HHOTJAB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000LPVT-75G33T0, DCM HBCVJBBB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000LPVT-75G33T0, DCM HHOTJHB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000LPVT-00G33T0, DCM HHOTJHB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000LPVT-24G33T1, DCM HBKTJABB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000LPVT-24G33T1, DCM HHKTJHB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000LPVT-24G33T1, DCM HBKTJBBB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000LPVT-00G33T0, DCM HHCVJHNB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000LPVT-60G33T0, DCM HVOTJAN, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000LPVT-75G33T0, DCM HBCTJHB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000LPVT-22G33T0, DCM HAOTJHBB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000LPVT-08G33T1, DCM HAOTJVN, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000LPVT-80G33T2, DCM HBCTJANB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000LPVT-24G33T1, DCM HBOTJVNB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000LPVT-60G33T0, DCM HVOTJAK, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000LPVT-60G33T0, DCM HBOVJVK, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000LPVT-22G33T0, DCM HBOTJHB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000LPVT-60G33T0, DCM HACVJHBB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000LPVT-80G33T2, DCM HACTJANB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
Western Digital WD5000LPVT 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 WD5000LPVT Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Western Digital WD5000LPVT 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:
2060-771959-000, 2060-771931-000, 2060-771852-004, 2060-771852-001, etc.
Multiple Model Number revisions:
WD5000LPVT-24G33T1, WD5000LPVT-80G33T2, WD5000LPVT-75G33T0, WD5000LPVT-08G33T1, WD5000LPVT-00FMCT0, WD5000LPVT-22G33T0, WD5000LPVT-60G33T0, WD5000LPVT-16G33T0, WD5000LPVT-00G33T0, etc.