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:

WD1600BEVS Western Digital 160GB SATA 2.5 Inch Hard Drive

  • 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.