WD1200JB Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 120GB and featuring a IDE interface. WD1200JB-22DYA0 Western Digital 120GB 7200RPM ATA-100 3.5-inch Hard Drive.
All information about the Western Digital WD1200JB hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Western Digital WD1200JB Technical Details:
- Hard Disk Model: WDC WD1200JB
- Disk Family: Caviar SE
- Form Factor: 3.5″
- 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: Ultra-ATA/100
- Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 100 MB/seconds
- Buffer Size: 8192 KB
- Drive Ready Time (typical): 7 seconds
- Average Seek Time: 8.9 ms
- Track To Track Seek Time: 2.0 ms
- Full Stroke Seek Time: 21.0 ms
- Width: 101.6 mm (4.00 inch)
- Depth: 147 mm (5.79 inch)
- Height: 25.4 mm (1.00 inch)
- Weight: 600 grams (1.32 pounds)
- Acoustic (Idle): 3.5 Bel
- Acoustic (Min performance and volume): 3.7 Bel
- Acoustic (Max performance and volume): 3.9 Bel
- Required Power For Spinup: 1055 mA
- Power Required (Seek): 7.0 W
- Power Required (Idle): 7.0 W
- Power Required (Standby): 1.0 W
- Manufacturer: Western Digital Corporation
Western Digital WD1200JB Hard Drives:
- WD1200JB-75CRA0, DCM HSEHNA2AH, Western Digital 120GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1200JB-00DUA3, DCM DSBHNVJAH, Western Digital 120GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1200JB-00REA0, DCM HSBANTJCHN, Western Digital 120GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1200JB-75FUA0, DCM HSBACVJAA, Western Digital 120GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1200JB-75CRA0, DCM HSEACV2CH, Western Digital 120GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1200JB-00CRA1, DCM HSEHNA2AH, Western Digital 120GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1200JB-00REA0, DCM HSBHNTJCHN, Western Digital 120GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1200JB-75CRA0, DCM DSEHCV2AH, Western Digital 120GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1200JB-00CRA1, DCM DSEHNV2AH, Western Digital 120GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1200JB-00CRA0, DCM HSEHNQ2AH, Western Digital 120GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1200JB-32EVA0, DCM HSBACAJAH, Western Digital 120GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1200JB-00FUA0, DCM HSBHCTJAH, Western Digital 120GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1200JB-00CRA0, DCM HSEHNA2AH, Western Digital 120GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1200JB-00DUA3, DCM HSBHNAJAH, Western Digital 120GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1200JB-00DUA3, DCM HSCHCAJAH, Western Digital 120GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1200JB-00CRA1, DCM HSEHNA2CH, Western Digital 120GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1200JB-00DUA3, DCM HSBHNVJAH, Western Digital 120GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1200JB-00DUA3, DCM DSBHCAJAA, Western Digital 120GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1200JB-00DUA3, DCM DSBHCAJCH, Western Digital 120GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1200JB-00DUA1, DCM HSBHNAJCA, Western Digital 120GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1200JB-34EVA0, DCM HSBACTJAH, Western Digital 120GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1200JB-00DUA3, DCM HSBHCA2AH, Western Digital 120GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1200JB-00CRA1, DCM HSEHNA2CA, Western Digital 120GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
Western Digital WD1200JB 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 WD1200JB Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Western Digital WD1200JB 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:
2060-701265-001, 2060-701292-002, 2060-001102-002, 2060-001102-003, 2060-001179-003, 2060-001160-001, etc.
Multiple Model Number revisions:
WD1200JB-00GVC0, WD1200JB-75FUA0, WD1200JB-75CRA0, WD1200JB-00REA0, WD1200JB-32EVA0, WD1200JB-00FUA0, WD1200JB-00CRA0, WD1200JB-00DUA1, WD1200JB-34EVA0, WD1200JB-00DUA3, WD1200JB-00CRA1, etc.