WD1003FBYX Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 1TB and featuring a SATA interface. WD1003FBYX-50Y7B0 Western Digital 1TB 7200RPM SATA 3Gb/s 3.5-inch Hard Drive.

All information about the Western Digital WD1003FBYX hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Western Digital WD1003FBYX Technical Details:

  • Hard Disk Model: WDC WD1003FBYX
  • Disk Family: RE4
  • 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): 18 seconds
  • Width: 101.6 mm (4.00 inch)
  • Depth: 147 mm (5.79 inch)
  • Height: 26.1 mm (1.03 inch)
  • Weight: 680 grams (1.50 pounds)
  • Acoustic (Idle): 2.8 Bel
  • Acoustic (Min performance and volume): 3.0 Bel
  • Acoustic (Max performance and volume): 3.4 Bel
  • Required Power For Spinup: 1230 mA
  • Power Required (Seek): 10.5 W
  • Power Required (Idle): 8.5 W
  • Power Required (Standby): 0.97 W
  • Manufacturer: Western Digital Corporation

Western Digital WD1003FBYX Hard Drives:

WD1003FBYX Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5 Inch Hard Drive

  • Western Digital WD1003FBYX, 7200RPM, 3.0Gp/s, 1TB SATA 3.5″ HDD
  • WD1003FBYX-12Y7B0, DCM HARNHTJCAB, Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1003FBYX-01Y7B1, DCM HARCNTJCAB, Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1003FBYX-01Y7B1, DCM HARCHVJCAB, Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1003FBYX-18Y7B0, DCM HARNHTJAAB, Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1003FBYX-01Y7B2, DCM HARNHTJAA, Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1003FBYX-18Y7B0, DCM HARCHVJCAB, Dell 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1003FBYX-18Y7B0, DCM HHNNHTJAAB, Dell 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1003FBYX-18Y7B0, DCM HARCNVJCHB, Dell 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1003FBYX-23Y7B0, DCM HHNNNTJAHB, IBM 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1003FBYX-01Y7B2, DCM HANNHTJAAB, Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1003FBYX-01Y7B2, DCM HHRNHTJCAB, Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1003FBYX-70Y7B0, DCM HBRCHTJCAB, Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1003FBYX-01Y7B2, DCM HHNNHTJAHB, Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1003FBYX-70Y7B0, DCM HBRNNTJCAB, Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1003FBYX-01Y7B2, DCM HBRNHTJCA, Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1003FBYX-01Y7B1, DCM HANCHVJCAB, Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1003FBYX-23Y7B0, DCM HHNNNTJCHB, Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1003FBYX-01Y7B0, DCM HBNNNTJABB, Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1003FBYX-23Y7B0, DCM HBNNHTJABB, Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1003FBYX-01Y7B1, DCM HANNNTJCHB, Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1003FBYX-01Y7B1, DCM HBRNHTJABB, Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1003FBYX-01Y7B1, DCM HBNCHVJCAB, Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1003FBYX-01Y7B0, DCM HBNNHTJABB, Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1003FBYX-18Y7B0, DCM HHRCHVJCHB, Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive

Western Digital WD1003FBYX 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 WD1003FBYX Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Western Digital WD1003FBYX 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:
2060-771702-002, 2060-771702-001, etc.

Multiple Model Number revisions:
WD1003FBYX-01Y7B2, WD1003FBYX, WD1003FBYX-70Y7B0, WD1003FBYX-01Y7B0, WD1003FBYX-18Y7B0, WD1003FBYX-23Y7B0, WD1003FBYX-01Y7B1, WD1003FBYX-88Y7B0, WD1003FBYX-708DB0, WD1003FBYX-05Y7B0, WD1003FBYX-12Y7B0, etc.