WD15EARS Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 1.5TB and featuring a SATA interface. WD15EARS-60MVWB0 Western Digital Caviar Green 1.5TB 5400RPM SATA 3Gb/s 64MB Cache 3.5-Inch Hard Drive.
All information about the Western Digital WD15EARS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Western Digital WD15EARS Technical Details:
- Hard Disk Model: WDC WD15EARS
- 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: 65536 KB
- Width: 101.6 mm (4.00 inch)
- Depth: 147 mm (5.79 inch)
- Height: 25.4 mm (1.00 inch)
- Weight: 640 grams (1.41 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 WD15EARS Hard Drives:
- Western Digital WD15EARS, 7200RPM, 3.0Gp/s, 1.5TB SATA 3.5″ HDD
- WD15EARS-00Z5B1, DCM HHNYHT2MH, Western Digital 1.5TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD15EARS-60MVWB0, DCM HANNHTJMHB, Western Digital 1.5TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD15EARS-60MVWB0, DCM HBNNNTJMHB, Western Digital 1.5TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD15EARS-60MVWB0, DCM HARNHTJMHB, Western Digital 1.5TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD15EARS-00MVWB0, DCM HBRNNTJMBB, Western Digital 1.5TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD15EARS-00Z5B1, DCM HBNYNT2MB, Western Digital 1.5TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD15EARS-60MVWB0, DCM HANNHTJCA, Western Digital 1.5TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD15EARS-32MVWB0, DCM HANNTJMAB, Western Digital 1.5TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD15EARS-22MVWB0, DCM HARNHTJMBB, Western Digital 1.5TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD15EARS-00Z5B1, DCM HANYNT2MH, Western Digital 1.5TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD15EARS-60MVWB0, DCM HHRNHTJCBB, Western Digital 1.5TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD15EARS-00Z5B1, DCM HHRYNT2MH, Western Digital 1.5TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD15EARS-00MVWB0, DCM HHRNHTJCB, Western Digital 1.5TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD15EARS-00MVWB0, DCM HANNNTJMBB, Western Digital 1.5TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD15EARS-60MVWB0, DCM HARNHTJMAB, Western Digital 1.5TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD15EARS-00MVWB0, DCM HHRNHTJMH, Western Digital 1.5TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD15EARS-22MVWB0, DCM HARNNTJMAB, Western Digital 1.5TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD15EARS-22MVWB0, DCM HBRNNTJMBB, Western Digital 1.5TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD15EARS-00Z5B1, DCM HANYHT2CB, Western Digital 1.5TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD15EARS-60MVWB0, DCM HHRNHTJMAB, Western Digital 1.5TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD15EARS-60MVWB0, DCM HHNNHTJMAB, Western Digital 1.5TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD15EARS-00S8B1, DCM HBRCHT2CBB, Western Digital 1.5TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD15EARS-60MVWB0, DCM HANNHTJMAB, Western Digital 1.5TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD15EARS-60MVWB0, DCM HARNHTJMBB, Western Digital 1.5TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
Western Digital WD15EARS 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 WD15EARS Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Western Digital WD15EARS 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:
2060-771698-004, 2060-771716-001, 2060-771698-004, 2060-771642-001, 2060-701640-007, 2060-771698-002, 2060-701640-002, etc.
Multiple Model Number revisions:
WD15EARS, WD15EARS-32MVWB0, WD15EARS-60MVWB0, WD15EARS-00S0XB0, WD15EARS-00U0AB0, WD15EARS-22MVWB0, WD15EARS-00S8B1, WD15EARS-00Z5B1, WD15EARS-00MVWB0, etc.