WD1200BEKT Western Digital 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 120GB and featuring a SATA interface. WD1200BEKT Western Digital Scorpio Black 120GB 7200RPM SATA 3GB/s 16MB Cache 2.5-inch Hard Disk Drive.

All information about the Western Digital WD1200BEKT hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Western Digital WD1200BEKT Technical Details:

  • Hard Disk Model: WDC WD1200BEKT
  • Disk Family: Scorpio Black
  • Form Factor: 2.5″
  • Capacity: 120 GB (120 x 1 000 000 000 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: Serial-ATA/300
  • Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 300 MB/seconds
  • Buffer Size: 16384 KB
  • Drive Ready Time (typical): 4 seconds
  • Average Seek Time: 12 ms
  • Track To Track Seek Time: 2 ms
  • Width: 69.85 mm (2.75 inch)
  • Depth: 100.2 mm (3.94 inch)
  • Height: 9.5 mm (0.37 inch)
  • Weight: 106 grams (0.23 pounds)
  • Acoustic (Idle): 2.5 Bel
  • Acoustic (Min performance and volume): 2.5 Bel
  • Acoustic (Max performance and volume): 2.8 Bel
  • Required Power For Spinup: 1100 mA
  • Power Required (Seek): 2.1 W
  • Power Required (Idle): 2.0 W
  • Power Required (Standby): 0.20 W
  • Manufacturer: Western Digital Corporation

Western Digital WD1200BEKT Hard Drives:

WD1200BEKT Western Digital 120GB SATA 2.5 Inch Hard Drive

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Western Digital WD1200BEKT 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 WD1200BEKT Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Western Digital WD1200BEKT 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:
2060-701574-001, etc.

Multiple Model Number revisions:
WD1200BEKT-00F3T0, etc.