WD10EALX Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 1TB and featuring a SATA interface. WD10EALX-089BA1 Western Digital 1TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 3.5-inch Hard Drive.

All information about the Western Digital WD10EALX hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Western Digital WD10EALX Technical Details:

  • Hard Disk Model: WDC WD10EALX
  • Disk Family: Caviar Blue
  • 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/600
  • Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 600 MB/seconds
  • Buffer Size: 32768 KB
  • Average Seek Time: 8.9 ms
  • Track To Track Seek Time: 2 ms
  • Full Stroke Seek Time: 21 ms
  • 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): 2.8 Bel
  • Acoustic (Min performance and volume): 2.9 Bel
  • Acoustic (Max performance and volume): 3.3 Bel
  • Required Power For Spinup: 2500 mA
  • Power Required (Seek): 6.8 W
  • Power Required (Idle): 6.1 W
  • Power Required (Standby): 0.7 W
  • Manufacturer: Western Digital Corporation

Western Digital WD10EALX Hard Drives:

WD10EALX Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5 Inch Hard Drive

  • WD10EALX-229BA1, DCM EARNHTJAAB, Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD10EALX-759BA1, DCM HHRNHTJAAB, Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD10EALX-229BA0, DCM EARNHTJAHB, Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD10EALX-009BA0, DCM HHNNHTJCA, Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD10EALX-759BA1, DCM EHNNHTJAAB, Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD10EALX-009BA0, DCM EARNNTJAAB, Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD10EALX-408EA0, DCM HHNNHTJAHB, Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD10EALX-229BA1, DCM EARMMTJABB, Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD10EALX-229BA0, DCM HARNHTJCAB, Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD10EALX-408EA0, DCM HHRNNTJAAB, Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD10EALX-408EA0, DCM HARNNTJAAB, Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD10EALX-759BA1, DCM HHNNHTJCH, Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD10EALX-759BA1, DCM HARNHTJAH, Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD10EALX-759BA0, DCM HHNNHTJCBB, Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD10EALX-229BA1, DCM EANNHTJCBB, Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD10EALX-759BA0, DCM EHNNHTJCAB, Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD10EALX-759BA1, DCM HARNNTJABB, Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD10EALX-759BA1, DCM EANNNT2CAB, Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD10EALX-009BA0, DCM EHRNHTJCA, Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD10EALX-759BA0, DCM HHNNHTJABB, Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD10EALX-009BA0, DCM HHNNHTJCH, Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD10EALX-408EA0, DCM HHNNHTJABB, Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD10EALX-408EA0, DCM HANNHTJAAB, Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD10EALX-089BA0, DCM EHNNHTJCHB, Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD10EALX-408EA0, DCM HBRNHTJAHB, Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive

Western Digital WD10EALX 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 WD10EALX Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Western Digital WD10EALX 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:
2060-771640-005, 2060-771640-003, etc.

Multiple Model Number revisions:
WD10EALX, WD10EALX-759BA0, WD10EALX-759BA1, WD10EALX-408EA0, WD10EALX-089BA1, WD10EALX-229BA0, WD10EALX-229BA1, WD10EALX-089BA0, WD10EALX-009BA0, etc.