Western Digital WD50NPJZ 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 5 TB and featuring a SATA interface.
All information about the Western Digital WD50NPJZ hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Western Digital WD50NPJZ Technical Details:
- Hard Disk Model: WDC WD50NPJZ
- Disk Family: WD Blue (Mobile)
- Form Factor: 2.5″
- Capacity: 5 TB (5000 x 1 000 000 000 bytes)
- Number Of Disks: 5
- Number Of Heads: 10
- Rotational Speed: 4800 RPM (or 5400 RPM depending on firmware)
- Rotation Time: 12.50 ms
- Average Rotational Latency: 6.25 ms
- Disk Interface: Serial-ATA/600
- Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 600 MB/seconds
- Buffer Size: 131072 KB (128 MB)
- Average Seek Time: 12.0 ms
- Width: 69.85 mm (2.75 inch)
- Depth: 100.2 mm (3.94 inch)
- Height: 15.0 mm (0.59 inch)
- Weight: 180 grams (0.40 pounds)
- Acoustic (Idle): 2.6 Bel
- Required Power For Spinup: 1000 mA
- Power Required (Seek): 2.1 W
- Power Required (Idle): 1.1 W
- Power Required (Standby): 0.22 W
- Manufacturer: Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
Western Digital WD50NPJZ Hard Drives:
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Western Digital WD50NPJZ 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 WD50NPJZ Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Western Digital WD50NPJZ 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 2060-810030-001 REV P1, etc.