Western Digital WD120EDBZ 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 12 TB and featuring a SATA interface.
All information about the Western Digital WD120EDBZ hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Western Digital WD120EDBZ Technical Details:
- Hard Disk Model: WDC WD120EDBZ
- Disk Family: Elements / Red (He12 OEM)
- Form Factor: 3.5″
- Capacity: 12 TB (12000 x 1 000 000 000 bytes)
- Number Of Disks: 6
- Number Of Heads: 12
- Rotational Speed: 7200 RPM
- Rotation Time: 8.33 ms
- Average Rotational Latency: 4.16 ms
- Disk Interface: Serial-ATA/600
- Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 600 MB/seconds
- Buffer Size: 262144 KB
- Average Seek Time: 8.5 ms
- Width: 101.6 mm (4.0 inch)
- Depth: 147.0 mm (5.79 inch)
- Height: 26.1 mm (1.03 inch)
- Weight: 660 grams (1.46 pounds)
- Acoustic (Idle): 2.0 Bel
- Required Power For Spinup: 1750 mA
- Power Required (Seek): 6.3 W
- Power Required (Idle): 5.0 W
- Power Required (Standby): 0.5 W
- Manufacturer: Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
Western Digital WD120EDBZ Hard Drives:
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Western Digital WD120EDBZ 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 WD120EDBZ Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Western Digital WD120EDBZ hard drive experience is a burned circuit board (PCB). Therefore, if you need to replace the PCB, be sure to match the “PCB Number” of the current board, such as 004-0B41714, etc.