Western Digital WD1500ADFS 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 150 GB and featuring a SATA interface. Western Digital WD1500ADFS Enterprise 150 GB 2.5″ Internal Hard Drive Serial ATA-300 10000 RPM 16 MB Buffer.

All information about the Western Digital WD1500ADFS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Western Digital WD1500ADFS

Western Digital WD1500ADFS Technical Details:

Manufacturer:
Western Digital
Hard Disk Model:
WD1500ADFS
Disk Family:
Enterprise 2.5″ (10K)
Form Factor:
2.5″
Capacity:
150 GB (150,000,000,000 bytes)
Formatted Capacity:
Approximately 139 GB
Rotational Speed:
10000 RPM (10K)
Average Seek Time:
4.2 ms (read) / 4.8 ms (write)
Disk Interface:
Serial ATA-300 (SATA 3 Gb/s)
Buffer Size:
16384 KB (16 MB)
External Transfer Rate:
300 MB/s
Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF):
1,200,000 hours

Note: The Western Digital WD1500ADFS is a 2.5″ enterprise hard drive with 10,000 RPM, designed for high-performance server and blade system applications.


Western Digital WD1500ADFS Hard Drives:

  • WD1500ADFS-00SLR5, DCM HBCA2AB, Western Digital 150GB SATA 3.5 Hard Drive

Western Digital WD1500ADFS 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 WD1500ADFS Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Western Digital WD1500ADFS 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 2060-701453-000 REV A, etc.

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