WD5000KS Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a SATA interface. WD5000KS Western Digital Caviar SE16 500GB 7200RPM SATA 3GB/s 16MB Cache 3.5-inch Hard Disk Drive.
All information about the Western Digital WD5000KS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Western Digital WD5000KS Technical Details:
- Manufacturer: Western Digital
- Manufacturer Website: www.wdc.com
- Manufacturer Part No: WD5000KPVT
- Product Series or Family: Blue
- Product Type: Internal Hard Drive
- Storage Capacity: 500GB
- Spindle Speed: 5400RPM
- Drive Interface: SATA 3.0Gbps
- Form Factor: 2.5Inch
- Cache: 8MB
Western Digital WD5000KS Hard Drives:
- WD5000KS-00MNB0, DCM HBACAJAH, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000KS-00MNB0, DCM HBHCAJAHB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000KS-00MNB0, DCM HCHCAJAHB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000KS-00MNB0, DCM HBACAJAHB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000KS-60MNB0, DCM HCACAJAAB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000KS-00MNB0, DCM HBHCAJAA, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000KS-00MNB0, DCM HCACAJCH, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000KS-75MNB0, DCM HCHCAJAAB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000KS-00MNB0, DCM HCHCAJAAB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000KS-00MNB0, DCM HCACAJAHB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000KS-00MNB0, DCM HBACAJAAB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000KS-00MNB0, DCM HBHCAJAH, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000KS-75MNB0, DCM HCACAJAAB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000KS-00MNB0, DCM HBACAJAA, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000KS-00MNB0, DCM HCHCAJAA, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000KS-00MNB0, DCM HCACAJAAB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000KS-60MNB0, DCM HBACAJAHB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000KS-00MNB0, DCM HCHCAJAH, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000KS-00MNB0, DCM HCACAJAA, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000KS-00MNB0, DCM HBHCAJAAB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000KS-00MNB0, DCM HCACAJAH, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
Western Digital WD5000KS 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 WD5000KS Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Western Digital WD5000KS 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:
2060-701383-001, etc.
Multiple Model Number revisions:
WD5000KS-75MNB0, WD5000KS-60MNB0, WD5000KS-00MNB0, etc.