WD1001FALS Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 1TB and featuring a SATA interface. WD1001FALS Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB 7200RPM SATA 3Gb/s 32MB Cache 3.5-inch Hard Drive.

All information about the Western Digital WD1001FALS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Western Digital WD1001FALS Technical Details:

  • Hard Disk Model: WDC WD1001FALS
  • 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: 32768 KB
  • Drive Ready Time (typical): 11 seconds
  • 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): 2.4 Bel
  • Acoustic (Min performance and volume): 2.9 Bel
  • Acoustic (Max performance and volume): 3.3 Bel
  • Required Power For Spinup: 2075 mA
  • Power Required (Seek): 8.4 W
  • Power Required (Idle): 7.8 W
  • Power Required (Standby): 1.0 W
  • Manufacturer: Western Digital Corporation

Western Digital WD1001FALS Hard Drives:

WD1001FALS Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5 Inch Hard Drive

  • WD1001FALS-00E3A0, DCM EARNHTJAAB, Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1001FALS-00J7B0, DCM HBNNHV2AB, Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1001FALS-00Y6A0, DCM HARNHTJAAB, Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1001FALS-00J7B0, DCM HARNHT2CA, Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1001FALS-75J7B0, DCM HBNNHT2AA, Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1001FALS-40U9B0, DCM HARNHT2CA, Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1001FALS-00J7B0, DCM HBNNHV2CB, Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1001FALS-40U9B0, DCM HBNNHT2CA, Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1001FALS-41K1B0, DCM HBNNHV2AB, Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1001FALS-41Y6A1, DCM HARNHTJAAB, Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1001FALS-00E8B0, DCM HANNHV2CA, Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1001FALS-00J7B0, DCM HARNNT2AA, Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1001FALS-00J7B0, DCM HANNHV2AB, Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1001FALS-41Y6A1, DCM HBRNHTJCHB, Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1001FALS-40Y6A0, DCM HARNNTJAAB, Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1001FALS-00K1B0, DCM HBRNHV2AB, Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1001FALS-00J7B1, DCM HBNNNT2AA, Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1001FALS-00Y6A0, DCM HHRNNTJCBB, Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1001FALS-00J7B0, DCM HARNNT2AB, Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1001FALS-41Y6A1, DCM HANNHTJCA, Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1001FALS-00Y6A0, DCM HANNHTJCH, Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1001FALS-41Y6A1, DCM HHNNNTJAAB, Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1001FALS-41Y6A1, DCM HHRNHTJAAB, Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1001FALS-00Y6A0, DCM HANNHTJCAB, Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1001FALS-55J7B0, DCM HANNHV2AB, Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive

Western Digital WD1001FALS 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 WD1001FALS Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Western Digital WD1001FALS 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:
2060-701537-000, 2060-701622-000, 2060-701567-000, 2060-771668-000, 2060-771640-005, 2060-701640-002, 2060-771640-002, 2060-771591-000, etc.

Multiple Model Number revisions:
WD1001FALS-55J7B0, WD1001FALS-08J7B0, WD1001FALS-00J7B0, WD1001FALS-75J7B0, WD1001FALS-00E8B0, WD1001FALS-00J7B1, WD1001FALS-40K1B1, WD1001FALS-41K1B0, WD1001FALS-42K1B0, WD1001FALS-00U9B0, WD1001FALS-41Y6A0, WD1001FALS-00Y6A0, WD1001FALS-403AA0, WD1001FALS-00E3A0, WD1001FALS-41Y6A1, WD1001FALS-40U9B0, WD1001FALS-40K1B0, WD1001FALS-00K1B0, WD1001FALS-40Y6A0, etc.