WD5000AACS Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a SATA interface. WD5000AACS-00G880 Western Digital Caviar Green 500GB 7200RPM SATA 3GB/s 16MB Cache 3.5-inch Hard Disk Drive.
All information about the Western Digital WD5000AACS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Western Digital WD5000AACS Technical Details:
- Hard Disk Model: WDC WD5000AACS
- Disk Family: Caviar GP
- Form Factor: 3.5″
- Capacity: 500 GB (500 x 1 000 000 000 bytes)
- Number Of Disks: 2
- Number Of Heads: 4
- Disk Interface: Serial-ATA/300
- Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 300 MB/seconds
- Buffer Size: 16384 KB
- Drive Ready Time (typical): 14.3 seconds
- Width: 101.6 mm (4.00 inch)
- Depth: 147 mm (5.79 inch)
- Height: 25.4 mm (1.00 inch)
- Weight: 600 grams (1.32 pounds)
- Acoustic (Idle): 2.4 Bel
- Acoustic (Min performance and volume): 2.5 Bel
- Acoustic (Max performance and volume): 2.9 Bel
- Power Required (Seek): 6.0 W
- Power Required (Idle): 3.3 W
- Power Required (Standby): 0.97 W
- Manufacturer: Western Digital Corporation
Western Digital WD5000AACS Hard Drives:
- WD5000AACS-00ZUB0, DCM HANCNTJCH, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000AACS-00ZUB0, DCM HARNNTJCHB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000AACS-00G8B1, DCM HHRNNTJMAB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000AACS-00ZUB0, DCM HHNCHT2MAN, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000AACS-00ZUB0, DCM HHNCNTJABB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000AACS-00ZUB0, DCM EANCHTJCA, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000AACS-00G8B1, DCM DHNNHTJMHB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000AACS-00D0B0, DCM DARCNVJMAN, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000AACS-61M6B2, DCM HARNHT2AHB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000AACS-07G8B0, DCM EHRMMT2MHN, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000AACS-00G8B1, DCM HGRNNTJMHN, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000AACS-00G8B1, DCM HHRNHTJMGB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000AACS-61M6B2, DCM HHRNHT2AHB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000AACS-00ZUB0, DCM HARCNT2MHN, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000AACS-00G8B0, DCM DBNNHT2MGN, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000AACS-00G8B1, DCM HARNHT2MHN, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000AACS-00ZUB0, DCM HARCHTJCBN, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000AACS-07G8B0, DCM DARNHT2MHN, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000AACS-00ZUB0, DCM DGRCHV2CAN, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000AACS-61M6B2, DCM HGNNHT2AHB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000AACS-61M6B2, DCM HGNNHT2AHN, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000AACS-61M6B2, DCM HGRNHT2AHN, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000AACS-61M6B2, DCM HHNNNT2CHN, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000AACS-61M6B2, DCM HGNNKT2CHB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000AACS-61M6B2, DCM HGRNHT2AGB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
Western Digital WD5000AACS 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 WD5000AACS Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Western Digital WD5000AACS 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:
2060-701477-002, 2060-701444-004, 2060-701590-000, 2060-771640-003, 2060-701537-004, etc.
Multiple Model Number revisions:
WD5000AACS-00D0B0, WD5000AACS-07G8B0, WD5000AACS-00G8B1, WD5000AACS-61M6B2, WD5000AACS-22ZUB0, WD5000AACS-00ZUB0, WD5000AACS-00G8B0, etc.