WD1001FAES Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 1TB and featuring a SATA interface. WD1001FAES Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB 7200RPM SATA 6GB/s 64MB Cache 3.5-inch Low Profile (1.0 inch) Hard Drive.

All information about the Western Digital WD1001FAES hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Western Digital WD1001FAES Technical Details:

  • Hard Disk Model: WDC WD1001FAES
  • Disk Family: Caviar Black
  • Form Factor: 3.5″
  • Capacity: 1 TB (1 x 1 000 000 000 000 bytes)
  • Number Of Disks: 2
  • Number Of Heads: 4
  • Rotational Speed: 7200 RPM
  • Rotation Time: 8.33 ms
  • Average Rotational Latency: 4.17 ms
  • Disk Interface: Serial-ATA/300
  • Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 300 MB/seconds
  • Buffer Size: 65536 KB
  • Drive Ready Time (typical): 11 seconds
  • Average Seek Time: 8.9 ms
  • Track To Track Seek Time: 8.9 ms
  • Full Stroke Seek Time: 8.9 ms
  • Width: 101.6 mm (4.00 inch)
  • Depth: 147 mm (5.79 inch)
  • Height: 25.4 mm (1.00 inch)
  • Weight: 690 grams (1.52 pounds)
  • Acoustic (Idle): 2.8 Bel
  • Acoustic (Min performance and volume): 2.9 Bel
  • Acoustic (Max performance and volume): 3.3 Bel
  • Required Power For Spinup: 1015 mA
  • Power Required (Seek): 6.8 W
  • Power Required (Idle): 6.1 W
  • Power Required (Standby): 0.7 W
  • Manufacturer: Western Digital Corporation

Western Digital WD1001FAES Hard Drives:

WD1001FAES Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5 Inch Hard Drive

  • Western Digital WD1001FAES, 7200RPM, 3Gp/s, 1TB SATA 3.5″ HDD
  • WD1001FAES-75W7A0, DCM HANNNTJAAB, Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1001FAES-40Y6A0, DCM HBNNHTJCBB, Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1001FAES-60Z2A0, DCM HHNNNTJCHB, Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1001FAES-22W7A0, DCM HARNHTJCAB, Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1001FAES-60Z2A0, DCM HBRNHTJAAB, Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1001FAES-75W7A0, DCM EBNNHTJAAB, Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1001FAES-55W7A0, DCM HANNHTJABB, Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1001FAES-55W7A0, DCM HARNNTJAAB, Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1001FAES-55W7A0, DCM EARNHTJAAB, Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1001FAES-75W7A0, DCM HARNHTJCAB, Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1001FAES-75W7A0, DCM HANNHTJCAB, Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1001FAES-55W7A0, DCM HANNNTJABB, Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1001FAES-75W7A0, DCM HARNNTJAAB, Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1001FAES-75W7A0, DCM HANNHTJAHB, Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1001FAES-60Z2A0, DCM EBRNNTJCAB, Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1001FAES-60Z2A0, DCM EARNNTJAAB, Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1001FAES-55W7A0, DCM HANNHTJCAB, Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1001FAES-60Z2A0, DCM HARNHTJABB, Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1001FAES-75W7A0, DCM EARNNTJCAB, Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1001FAES-60Z2A0, DCM EARNHTJAAB, Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1001FAES-60Z2A0, DCM EBRNNTJAAB, Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1001FAES-75W7A0, DCM HBRNNTJCAB, Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1001FAES-60Z2A0, DCM EANNHTJABB, Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1001FAES-75W7A0, DCM HBRNHTJCAB, Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive

Western Digital WD1001FAES 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 WD1001FAES Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Western Digital WD1001FAES 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:
2060-771640-005, 2060-771640-001, 2060-771640-002, 2060-701640-002, 2060-771640-003, etc.

Multiple Model Number revisions:
WD1001FAES, WD1001FAES-40Y6A0, WD1001FAES-22W7A0, WD1001FAES-55W7A0, WD1001FAES-60Z2A0, WD1001FAES-00W7A0, WD1001FAES-75W7A0, etc.