Western Digital WD5000AVKX 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500 GB and featuring a SATA interface.
All information about the Western Digital WD5000AVKX hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Western Digital WD5000AVKX Technical Details:
- Hard Disk Model: WDC WD5000AVKX
- Disk Family: AV (Audio-Video)
- Form Factor: 3.5″
- Capacity: 500 GB (500 x 1 000 000 000 bytes)
- Number Of Disks: 1
- Number Of Heads: 2
- Rotational Speed: 7200 RPM
- Rotation Time: 8.33 ms
- Average Rotational Latency: 4.17 ms
- Disk Interface: Serial-ATA/600
- Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 600 MB/seconds
- Buffer Size: 16384 KB
- Average Seek Time: 8.9 ms
- Width: 101.6 mm (4.0 inch)
- Depth: 147.0 mm (5.79 inch)
- Height: 26.1 mm (1.03 inch)
- Weight: 450 grams (0.99 pounds)
- Acoustic (Idle): 2.1 Bel
- Required Power For Spinup: 1210 mA
- Power Required (Seek): 4.1 W
- Power Required (Idle): 3.3 W
- Power Required (Standby): 0.75 W
- Manufacturer: Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
Western Digital WD5000AVKX Hard Drives:
- WD5000AVKX-635FY0, DCM HGNNHT2CG, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
Western Digital WD5000AVKX 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 WD5000AVKX Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Western Digital WD5000AVKX 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 2060-771640-003 REV A, etc.