WD600BEAS Western Digital 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 60 GB and featuring a SATA interface. WD600BEAS WD 2.5″ 60 GB Serial-ATA/150 Scorpio 5400 RPM Hard Drive.
All information about the Western Digital WD600BEAS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Western Digital WD600BEAS Technical Details:
- Hard Disk Model: WDC WD600BEAS
- Disk Family: Scorpio
- Form Factor: 2.5″
- Capacity: 60 GB (60 x 1 000 000 000 bytes)
- Number Of Disks: 1
- Number Of Heads: 2
- Rotational Speed: 5400 RPM
- Rotation Time: 11.11 ms
- Average Rotational Latency: 5.56 ms
- Disk Interface: Serial-ATA/150
- Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 150 MB/seconds
- Buffer Size: 2048 KB
- Drive Ready Time (typical): 4 seconds
- Average Seek Time: 12.0 ms
- Track To Track Seek Time: 2.0 ms
- Full Stroke Seek Time: 21.0 ms
- Width: 69.85 mm (2.72 inch)
- Depth: 100.2 mm (3.94 inch)
- Height: 9.5 mm (0.35 inch)
- Weight: 117 grams (0.26 pounds)
- Acoustic (Idle): 2.4 Bel
- Acoustic (Min performance and volume): 2.6 Bel
- Acoustic (Max performance and volume): 2.6 Bel
- Required Power For Spinup: 500 W
- Manufacturer: Western Digital Corporation
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Western Digital WD600BEAS Hard Drives:
- WD600BEAS WD 2.5″ 60 GB Serial-ATA/150 Scorpio 5400 RPM Hard Drive.
Western Digital WD600BEAS 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 WD600BEAS Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Western Digital WD600BEAS hard drive experience is a burned circuit board (PCB). Therefore, if you need to replace the PCB, be sure to match the “PCB Number” of the current board, such as etc.