WD1600AVCS Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 160GB and featuring a SATA interface. WD1600AVCS Western Digital Av-Gp 160GB 7200RPM (intellipower) SATA 3GB/s 16MB Cache 3.5-inch Internal Hard Drive.
All information about the Western Digital WD1600AVCS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Western Digital WD1600AVCS Technical Details:
- Hard Disk Model: WDC WD1600AVCS
- Disk Family: AV-GP
- Form Factor: 3.5″
- Capacity: 160 GB (160 x 1 000 000 000 bytes)
- Disk Interface: Serial-ATA/300
- Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 300 MB/seconds
- Buffer Size: 16384 KB
- Width: 101.6 mm (4.00 inch)
- Depth: 147 mm (5.79 inch)
- Height: 26.1 mm (1.03 inch)
- Weight: 440 grams (0.97 pounds)
- Manufacturer: Western Digital Corporation
Western Digital WD1600AVCS Hard Drives:
- WD1600AVCS-632DY1, DCM HHNNHT2CGB, Western Digital 160GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1600AVCS-632DY1, DCM HGRNKT2CHB, Western Digital 160GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
Western Digital WD1600AVCS 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 WD1600AVCS Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Western Digital WD1600AVCS 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:
2060-771640-003, etc.
Multiple Model Number revisions:
WD1600AVCS-632DY1, etc.