WD1003FZEX Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 1TB and featuring a SATA interface. WD1003FZEX Western Digital Black 1TB 7200RPM SATA 6GB/s 64MB Cache 3.5-inch Low Profile Hard Drive.

All information about the Western Digital WD1003FZEX hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Western Digital WD1003FZEX Technical Details:

  • Hard Disk Model: WDC WD1003FZEX
  • Disk Family: Caviar Black
  • Form Factor: 3.5″
  • Capacity: 1 TB (1 x 1 000 000 000 000 bytes)
  • Rotational Speed: 7200 RPM
  • Rotation Time: 8.33 ms
  • Average Rotational Latency: 4.17 ms
  • Disk Interface: Serial-ATA/600
  • Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 600 MB/seconds
  • Buffer Size: 65536 KB
  • 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)
  • Manufacturer: Western Digital Corporation

Western Digital WD1003FZEX Hard Drives:

WD1003FZEX Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5 Inch Hard Drive

  • WD1003FZEX-00MK2A0, DCM HHRMHT2AHB, Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1003FZEX-00MK2A0, DCM EANNKT2AHB, Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1003FZEX-00K3CA0, DCM HBNNHT2CEB, Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1003FZEX-00MK2A0, DCM HANNHT2CHB, Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1003FZEX-00MK2A0, DCM HANMHT2CHB, Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1003FZEX-00K3CA0, DCM HANNHT2AHB, Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1003FZEX-00MK2A0, DCM EARNKT2MHB, Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1003FZEX-00MK2A0, DCM HBRNHT2AHB, Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1003FZEX-00K3CA0, DCM HARNNTJMHB, Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1003FZEX-00MK2A0, DCM HHRMKT2AHB, Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1003FZEX-00MK2A0, DCM EHNNHT2CG, Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1003FZEX-00MK2A0, DCM HHRMHT2CHB, Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1003FZEX-00K3CA0, DCM HARNKTJCHB, Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1003FZEX-00K3CA0, DCM EANNNT2AHB, Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1003FZEX-00K3CA0, DCM HBRNHTJCEB, Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1003FZEX-00MK2A0, DCM HANNHT2AHB, Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1003FZEX-00K3CA0, DCM HANNKT2AHB, Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1003FZEX-00K3CA0, DCM HHNNHT2CHB, Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1003FZEX-00K3CA0, DCM HHNNKT2CHB, Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1003FZEX-00K3CA0, DCM HARNHT2CEB, Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1003FZEX-00MK2A0, DCM HHNNHT2CHB, Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1003FZEX-00MK2A0, DCM HARMNT2AHB, Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1003FZEX-00MK2A0, DCM DARNKT2MEB, Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive

Western Digital WD1003FZEX 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 WD1003FZEX Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Western Digital WD1003FZEX 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:
2060-771829-004, 2060-800039-001, 2060-771829-005, etc.

Multiple Model Number revisions:
WD1003FZEX-00K3CA0, WD1003FZEX-00MK2A0, etc.