WD15EARX Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 1.5TB and featuring a SATA interface. WD15EARX-00ZUDB0 Western Digital Caviar Green 1.5TB 5400RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache 3.5-inch Hard Drive.

All information about the Western Digital WD15EARX hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Western Digital WD15EARX Technical Details:

  • Hard Disk Model: WDC WD15EARX
  • 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/600
  • Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 600 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: 1750 mA
  • Power Required (Seek): 4.5 W
  • Power Required (Idle): 2.5 W
  • Power Required (Standby): 0.7 W
  • Manufacturer: Western Digital Corporation

Western Digital WD15EARX Hard Drives:

WD15EARX Western Digital 1.5TB SATA 3.5 Inch Hard Drive

  • WD15EARX-00PASB0, DCM HANCNV2CAB, Western Digital 1.5TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD15EARX-00PASB0, DCM HHRCHV2CHB, Western Digital 1.5TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD15EARX-00PASB0, DCM HARCNV2CAB, Western Digital 1.5TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD15EARX-00PASB0, DCM HBNNHTJCAB, Western Digital 1.5TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD15EARX-00PASB0, DCM HARNHT2MAB, Western Digital 1.5TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD15EARX-22PASB0, DCM HHNNHTJCAB, Western Digital 1.5TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD15EARX-22PASB0, DCM HARNNTJCHB, Western Digital 1.5TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD15EARX-00PASB0, DCM HHRNHT2MAB, Western Digital 1.5TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD15EARX-00PASB0, DCM HBRCHV2CAB, Western Digital 1.5TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD15EARX-00PASB0, DCM HHNNNTJCHB, Western Digital 1.5TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD15EARX-00PASB0, DCM DHRNHT2MHB, Western Digital 1.5TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD15EARX-00PASB0, DCM DARNHT2MAB, Western Digital 1.5TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD15EARX-00PASB0, DCM HARNHTJMA, Western Digital 1.5TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD15EARX-00ZUDB0, DCM HANCHV2AA, Western Digital 1.5TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD15EARX-00PASB0, DCM HANNNTJMAB, Western Digital 1.5TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive

Western Digital WD15EARX 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 WD15EARX Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Western Digital WD15EARX 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:
2060-771698-002, 2060-771716-001, 2060-771698-004, etc.

Multiple Model Number revisions:
WD15EARX-22PASB0, WD15EARX-00ZUDB0, WD15EARX-00PASB0, etc.