WD1600BEVS Western Digital 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 160GB and featuring a SATA interface. WD1600BEVS-RTL1071 Western Digital 160GB 5400RPM SATA 1.5Gb/s 2.5-inch Hard Drive.
All information about the Western Digital WD1600BEVS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Western Digital WD1600BEVS Technical Details:
- Hard Disk Model: WDC WD1600BEVS
- Disk Family: Scorpio Blue
- Form Factor: 2.5″
- Capacity: 160 GB (160 x 1 000 000 000 bytes)
- Number Of Disks: 1
- Number Of Heads: 2
- Rotational Speed: 5400 RPM
- Rotation Time: 11.11 ms
- Average Rotational Latency: 5.56 ms
- Disk Interface: Serial-ATA/150
- Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 150 MB/seconds
- Buffer Size: 8192 KB
- Drive Ready Time (typical): 4 seconds
- Average Seek Time: 12 ms
- Track To Track Seek Time: 2 ms
- Width: 69.85 mm (2.75 inch)
- Depth: 100.2 mm (3.94 inch)
- Height: 9.5 mm (0.37 inch)
- Weight: 117 grams (0.26 pounds)
- Acoustic (Idle): 2.4 Bel
- Acoustic (Min performance and volume): 2.6 Bel
- Acoustic (Max performance and volume): 2.6 Bel
- Required Power For Spinup: 500 mA
- Power Required (Seek): 2.5 W
- Power Required (Idle): 2.0 W
- Power Required (Standby): 0.25 W
- Manufacturer: Western Digital Corporation
Western Digital WD1600BEVS Hard Drives:
- Western Digital WD1600BEVS, 5400RPM, 1.5Gp/s, 160GB SATA 2.5″ HDD
- WD1600BEVS-75RST0, DCM HHYTJABB, Western Digital 160GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1600BEVS-26VAT0, DCM HHCV2HNB, Western Digital 160GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1600BEVS-75RST0, DCM FACTJABB, Western Digital 160GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1600BEVS-60VAT0, DCM HHCTJHB, Western Digital 160GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1600BEVS-26VAT0, DCM HHNT2HNB, Western Digital 160GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1600BEVS-00RST0, DCM HHCTJHB, Western Digital 160GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1600BEVS-16VAT0, DCM HBYTJHNB, Western Digital 160GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1600BEVS-08VAT2, DCM HANT2BBB, Western Digital 160GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1600BEVS-08VAT2, DCM HHCT2HBB, Western Digital 160GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1600BEVS-08VAT2, DCM HANT2ABB, Western Digital 160GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1600BEVS-60VAT0, DCM HACTJHB, Western Digital 160GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1600BEVS-60RST0, DCM FAYTJHNB, Western Digital 160GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1600BEVS-22RST0, DCM FACTJHNB, Western Digital 160GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1600BEVS-26VAT0, DCM HHNTJANB, Western Digital 160GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1600BEVS-22RST0, DCM FBCTJBNB, Western Digital 160GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1600BEVS-60VAT0, DCM HACTJANB, Western Digital 160GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1600BEVS-75RST0, DCM HAYTJHBB, Western Digital 160GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1600BEVS-00VAT0, DCM FBNT2BBB, Western Digital 160GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1600BEVS-26VAT0, DCM HBCV2BNB, Western Digital 160GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1600BEVS-60VAT0, DCM HHCVJHBB, Western Digital 160GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1600BEVS-22RST0, DCM HACTJABB, Western Digital 160GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1600BEVS-00RST0, DCM HHNTJBBB, Western Digital 160GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1600BEVS-08RST2, DCM FHYTJBNB, Western Digital 160GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1600BEVS-22VAT0, DCM FACV2ABB, Western Digital 160GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
Western Digital WD1600BEVS 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 WD1600BEVS Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Western Digital WD1600BEVS 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:
2060-701450-009, 2060-701499-005, 2060-701499-000, 2060-701450-001, 2060-701450-011, etc.
Multiple Model Number revisions:
WD1600BEVS, WD1600BEVS-16VAT0, WD1600BEVS-22VAT0, WD1600BEVS-00VAT0, WD1600BEVS-60VAT0, WD1600BEVS-11VAT0, WD1600BEVS-60RST0, WD1600BEVS-08RST2, WD1600BEVS-26VAT0, WD1600BEVS-08VAT2, WD1600BEVS-08VAT1, WD1600BEVS-22RST0, WD1600BEVS-07RST0, WD1600BEVS-75RST0, WD1600BEVS-22UST0, WD1600BEVS-60UST0, WD1600BEVS-00UST0, WD1600BEVS-08RST3, WD1600BEVS-00RST0, etc.