WD10EZLX Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 1TB and featuring a SATA interface.
All information about the Western Digital WD10EZLX hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Western Digital WD10EZLX Technical Details:
- Hard Disk Model: Western Digital WD10EZLX
- Disk Family: WD Blue
- Form Factor: 3.5″
- Capacity: 1000 GB (1 000 000 000 000 bytes)
- Number Of Disks: 1
- Number Of Heads: 2
- Rotational Speed: 7200 RPM
- Rotation Time: 8.33 ms
- Average Rotational Latency: 4.17 ms
- Disk Interface: SATA 6 Gb/s (SATA III)
- Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 600.0 MB/seconds
- Buffer Size: 32 MB
- Drive Ready Time (typical): 4.0 seconds
- Average Seek Time: 8.9 ms
- Track To Track Seek Time: 2.0 ms
- Width: 101.6 mm (4.00 inch)
- Depth: 147.0 mm (5.79 inch)
- Height: 25.4 mm (1.00 inch)
- Weight: 450 grams (0.99 pounds)
- Acoustic (Idle): 2.9 Bel
- Acoustic (Min performance and volume): 2.9 Bel
- Acoustic (Max performance and volume): 3.0 Bel
- Required Power For Spinup: 12V / 5V (Peak 1.77A)
- Power Required (Seek): 6.8 W
- Power Required (Idle): 6.1 W
- Power Required (Standby): 1.2 W
- Manufacturer: Western Digital Corporation
Western Digital WD10EZLX Hard Drives:

- WD10EZLX-00K4KA0, DCM EARCNV2CH, Western Digital 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
Western Digital WD10EZLX 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 WD10EZLX Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Western Digital WD10EZLX 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:
2060-771824-001, etc.
Multiple Model Number revisions:
WD10EZLX-00K4KA0, etc.