WD1001FYYG Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 1TB and featuring a SAS interface. WD1001FYYG-015L3W0 Western Digital 1TB 7200RPM SAS 6Gb/s 3.5-inch Hard Drive.

All information about the Western Digital WD1001FYYG hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Western Digital WD1001FYYG Technical Details:

• Manufacturer: Western Digital
• Manufacturer Website: www.wdc.com
• Manufacturer Part No: WD1001FYYG-01SL3W0
• Product Series or Family: RE
• Product Type: Internal Hard Drive
• Storage Capacity: 1TB
• Spindle Speed: 7200RPM
• Drive Interface: SAS 6.0Gbps
• Form Factor: 3.5Inch
• Cache: 32MB

Western Digital WD1001FYYG Hard Drives:

• WD1001FYYG-01SL3W0, DCM HBRCNVJMB, Western Digital 1TB SAS 3.5″ Hard Drive
• WD1001FYYG-01SL3W0, DCM HBRCNVJAB, Western Digital 1TB SAS 3.5″ Hard Drive

Western Digital WD1001FYYG 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 WD1001FYYG Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Western Digital WD1001FYYG 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:
2060-771825-003, etc.

Multiple Model Number revisions:
WD1001FYYG-01SL3W0, etc.