WD102AA Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 10.2GB and featuring a IDE interface. WD WD102AA-00AAA2 10.2GB 5.4K EIDE 3.5″ 2MB Cache Hard Drive.

All information about the Western Digital WD102AA hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Western Digital WD102AA Technical Details:

  • Manufacturer: Western Digital
  • Manufacturer Website: www.wdc.com
  • Manufacturer Part No: WD102AA-00AAA2
  • Product Series or Family: Caviar
  • Product Type: Internal Hard Drive
  • Storage Capacity: 10.2GB
  • Spindle Speed: 5400RPM
  • Drive Interface: EIDE
  • Form Factor: 3.5Inch
  • Cache: 2MB

Western Digital WD102AA Hard Drives:

WD102AA Western Digital 10.2GB IDE 3.5 Inch Hard Drive

  • WD102AA-40AAA5, DCM CSBABQFAW, Western Digital 10GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD102AA-00ANA0, DCM DSBBEVHBO, Western Digital 10.2GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD102AA-53ANA0, DCM HSBAEVHAO, Western Digital 10.2GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD102AA-53ANA0, DCM HSBBEIFBO, Western Digital 10.2GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD102AA-00AAA2, DCM ASBBEVHBO, Western Digital 10GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD102AA-53ANA0, DCM RRBHEIFHO, Western Digital 10.2GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive

Western Digital WD102AA 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 WD102AA Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Western Digital WD102AA 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:
60-600788-002, 60-600843-001, etc.

Multiple Model Number revisions:
WD102AA-40AAA5, WD102AA-00ANA0, WD102AA-00AAA2, WD102AA-53ANA0, etc.