WD1200JS Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 120GB and featuring a SATA interface.
All information about the Western Digital WD1200JS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Western Digital WD1200JS Technical Details:
- Hard Disk Model: Western Digital WD1200JS
- Disk Family: Caviar SE
- Form Factor: 3.5″
- Capacity: 120 GB (120 000 000 000 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: SATA 3 Gb/s (SATA II)
- Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 300.0 MB/seconds
- Buffer Size: 8 MB (8.0 MB)
- Drive Ready Time (typical): 4.8 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: 26.1 mm (1.03 inch)
- Weight: 600 grams (1.32 pounds)
- Acoustic (Idle): 2.6 Bel
- Acoustic (Min performance and volume): 2.6 Bel
- Acoustic (Max performance and volume): 3.1 Bel
- Required Power For Spinup: 12V / 5V (Peak 1.85A)
- Power Required (Seek): 7.5 W
- Power Required (Idle): 5.0 W
- Power Required (Standby): 0.8 W
- Manufacturer: Western Digital Corporation
Western Digital WD1200JS Hard Drives:
- WD1200JS-00MHB0, DCM HSCANTJAA, Western Digital 120GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1200JS-00MHB1, DCM DSCACTJAA, Western Digital 120GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1200JS-22NCB1, DCM DSBHYT2AAN, Western Digital 120GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1200JS-22NCB1, DCM HSBHNT2AHN, Western Digital 120GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1200JS-00MHB0, DCM DSCANT2AA, Western Digital 120GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1200JS-00MHB0, DCM DSBHNT2CA, Western Digital 120GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1200JS-00MHB0, DCM DSBNHTJAH, Western Digital 120GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1200JS-00MHB0, DCM DSBHNTJAH, Western Digital 120GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1200JS-00MHB0, DCM HSCACT2AA, Western Digital 120GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1200JS-00NCB1, DCM HSBHYTJCAB, Western Digital 120GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1200JS-00NCB1, DCM HSCANTJAHB, Western Digital 120GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1200JS-00MHB0, DCM DSBHCTJAH, Western Digital 120GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1200JS-00MHB0, DCM HSBHCTJAH, Western Digital 120GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1200JS-00NCB1, DCM HSCHNT2AH, Western Digital 120GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1200JS-00NCB1, DCM DSBHNTJCAN, Western Digital 120GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1200JS-00NCB1, DCM HSCANTJAAB, Western Digital 120GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
Western Digital WD1200JS 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 WD1200JS Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Western Digital WD1200JS 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:
2060-701335-003, 2060-701335-005, etc.
Multiple Model Number revisions:
WD1200JS-00MHB1, WD1200JS-22NCB1, WD1200JS-00MHB0, WD1200JS-00NCB1, etc.