WD1600BEVT Western Digital 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 160GB and featuring a SATA interface. WD1600BEVT-00M9YT0 Western Digital Blue 160GB 5400RPM SATA 3Gb/s 8MB Cache 2.5-inch Hard Drive.

All information about the Western Digital WD1600BEVT hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Western Digital WD1600BEVT Technical Details:

  • Hard Disk Model: WDC WD1600BEVT
  • 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/300
  • Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 300 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: 100 grams (0.22 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 WD1600BEVT Hard Drives:

WD1600BEVT Western Digital 160GB SATA 2.5 Inch Hard Drive

  • WD1600BEVT-22ZCT0, DCM DHNTJHNB, Western Digital 160GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1600BEVT-75A23T0, DCM HHMTJHB, Western Digital 160GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1600BEVT-75ZCT1, DCM HACVJHBB, Western Digital 160GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1600BEVT-22ZCT0, DCM HHNT2HB, Western Digital 160GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1600BEVT-08A23T1, DCM HHCTJHBB, Western Digital 160GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1600BEVT-75A23T0, DCM HHMTJHNB, Western Digital 160GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1600BEVT-75ZCT2, DCM HANVJABB, Western Digital 160GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1600BEVT-75A23T0, DCM HEMTJHB, Western Digital 160GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1600BEVT-22ZCT0, DCM DANTJHBB, Western Digital 160GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1600BEVT-75ZCT2, DCM FHCT2HB, Western Digital 160GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1600BEVT-80A23T0, DCM HHBTJABB, Western Digital 160GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1600BEVT-22ZCT0, DCM FHNT2BB, Western Digital 160GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1600BEVT-00A23T0, DCM HHMTJHB, Western Digital 160GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1600BEVT-22ZCT0, DCM HHNTJHB, Western Digital 160GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1600BEVT-60A23T0, DCM HHCTJHNB, Western Digital 160GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1600BEVT-00A23T0, DCM HHCTJHB, Western Digital 160GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1600BEVT-75ZCT2, DCM HANT2BB, Western Digital 160GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1600BEVT-75A23T0, DCM HHMTJHN, Western Digital 160GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1600BEVT-75ZCT2, DCM HBNT2HB, Western Digital 160GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1600BEVT-75A23T0, DCM HHCTJHBB, Western Digital 160GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1600BEVT-22A23T0, DCM HEMTJHB, Western Digital 160GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1600BEVT-22ZCT0, DCM DHNTJHBB, Western Digital 160GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1600BEVT-22A23T0, DCM HHBVJHBB, Western Digital 160GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1600BEVT-22A23T0, DCM FA0043DH, Western Digital 160GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1600BEVT-22ZCT0, DCM HHNVJHBB, Western Digital 160GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive

Western Digital WD1600BEVT 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 WD1600BEVT Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Western Digital WD1600BEVT 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:
2061-771672-001, 2060-771672-001, 2060-701672-004, 2060-701574-001, 2060-701499-005, 2060-701499-000, 2060-771672-004, etc.

Multiple Model Number revisions:
WD1600BEVT-26ZCT0, WD1600BEVT-35ZCT1, WD1600BEVT-16A23T0, WD1600BEVT-60A23T0, WD1600BEVT-22A23T0, WD1600BEVT, WD1600BEVT-00A23T0, WD1600BEVT-80A23T0, WD1600BEVT-00ZCT0, WD1600BEVT-75ZCT0, WD1600BEVT-88ZCT0, WD1600BEVT-75ZCT1, WD1600BEVT-11A23T0, WD1600BEVT-00A1TT0, WD1600BEVT-22ZCT0, WD1600BEVT-75ZCT2, WD1600BEVT-75A23T0, WD1600BEVT-60ZCT1, WD1600BEVT-11ZCT0, WD1600BEVT-08A23T1, WD1600BEVT-60ZCT0, WD1600BEVT-24A23T0, etc.