WD15EADS Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 1.5TB and featuring a SATA interface. WD15EADS-11P8B1 Western Digital Caviar Green 1.5TB 5400RPM SATA 3Gb/s 32MB Cache 3.5-inch Hard Drive.
All information about the Western Digital WD15EADS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Western Digital WD15EADS Technical Details:
- Hard Disk Model: WDC WD15EADS
- Disk Family: Caviar Green
- Form Factor: 3.5″
- Capacity: 1500 GB (1500 x 1 000 000 000 bytes)
- Number Of Disks: 3
- Number Of Heads: 6
- Disk Interface: Serial-ATA/300
- Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 300 MB/seconds
- Buffer Size: 32768 KB
- Drive Ready Time (typical): 14.5 seconds
- Width: 101.6 mm (4.00 inch)
- Depth: 147 mm (5.79 inch)
- Height: 26.1 mm (1.03 inch)
- Weight: 730 grams (1.61 pounds)
- Acoustic (Idle): 2.4 Bel
- Acoustic (Min performance and volume): 2.5 Bel
- Acoustic (Max performance and volume): 2.9 Bel
- Required Power For Spinup: 1759 mA
- Power Required (Seek): 6 W
- Power Required (Idle): 3.7 W
- Power Required (Standby): 0.8 W
- Manufacturer: Western Digital Corporation
Western Digital WD15EADS Hard Drives:
- WD15EADS-00R6B0, DCM HARCHV2AAB, Western Digital 1.5TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD15EADS-65R2B0, DCM HHRMHT2MH, Western Digital 1.5TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD15EADS-22P8B0, DCM HANNHT2MH, Western Digital 1.5TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD15EADS-22P8B0, DCM HBNCNT2MH, Western Digital 1.5TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD15EADS-11P8B1, DCM HHNYHT2MH, Western Digital 1.5TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD15EADS-11P8B1, DCM HHNYHT2MA, Western Digital 1.5TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD15EADS-00P8B0, DCM HBRCNT2MBB, Western Digital 1.5TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD15EADS-11R6B1, DCM HBRNHT2AAB, Western Digital 1.5TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD15EADS-00R6B0, DCM HBRCHV2ABB, Western Digital 1.5TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD15EADS-00R6B0, DCM FARCHV2AAB, Western Digital 1.5TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD15EADS-00H7B0, DCM HBRCHV2ABB, Western Digital 1.5TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD15EADS-00H7B0, DCM HBRCHV2CAB, Western Digital 1.5TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD15EADS-00S2B0, DCM HBRCHV2AB, Western Digital 1.5TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD15EADS-00S2B0, DCM HARCHV2AA, Western Digital 1.5TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD15EADS-00W4B0, DCM HARCHV2AB, Western Digital 1.5TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD15EADS-00P8B0, DCM HHRCHT2CA, Western Digital 1.5TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD15EADS-65P8B1, DCM HARNHT2CA, Western Digital 1.5TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD15EADS-32R6B0, DCM HBRCHV2ABB, Western Digital 1.5TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD15EADS-00P8B0, DCM HHRCHT2MH, Western Digital 1.5TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD15EADS-22P8B0, DCM HBNNNT2MA, Western Digital 1.5TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD15EADS-00H7B0, DCM HARCHV2ABB, Western Digital 1.5TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD15EADS-00R6B0, DCM HARNHV2AAB, Western Digital 1.5TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD15EADS-11R6B1, DCM HBRNHT2AB, Western Digital 1.5TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD15EADS-00W4B0, DCM HARCHV2AA, Western Digital 1.5TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD15EADS-22P8B0, DCM HANNHT2CH, Western Digital 1.5TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
Western Digital WD15EADS 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 WD15EADS Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Western Digital WD15EADS 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:
2060-701595-001, 2060-771642-000, 2060-771642-003, 2060-70160-007, 2060-771642-001, 2060-701595-000, 2060-771640-003, 2060-771640-0003, 2060-701640-007, 2060-701640-002, 2060-701640-001, 2060-771640-001, etc.
Multiple Model Number revisions:
WD15EADS-00S2B0, WD15EADS-32R6B0, WD15EADS-11R6B1, WD15EADS-00W4B0, WD15EADS-65R2B0, WD15EADS-11P8B1, WD15EADS-00R6B0, WD15EADS-65P8B1, WD15EADS-00H7B0, WD15EADS-22P8B0, WD15EADS-11P8B2, WD15EADS-00P8B0, etc.