WD1600HLFS Western Digital 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 160GB and featuring a SATA interface. WD1600HLFS Western Digital Velociraptor 160GB 10000RPM SATA-I 16MB Cache 3.5-inch Low Profile (1.0 inch) Hard Drive.
All information about the Western Digital WD1600HLFS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Western Digital WD1600HLFS Technical Details:
- Hard Disk Model: WDC WD1600HLFS
- Disk Family: VelociRaptor
- Form Factor: 3.5″
- Capacity: 160 GB (160 x 1 000 000 000 bytes)
- Number Of Disks: 2
- Number Of Heads: 4
- Rotational Speed: 10000 RPM
- Rotation Time: 6.00 ms
- Average Rotational Latency: 3.00 ms
- Disk Interface: Serial-ATA/300
- Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 300 MB/seconds
- Buffer Size: 16384 KB
- Drive Ready Time (typical): 7 seconds
- Average Seek Time: 3.6 ms
- Track To Track Seek Time: 0.4 ms
- Width: 101.6 mm (4.00 inch)
- Depth: 147 mm (5.79 inch)
- Height: 26.1 mm (1.03 inch)
- Weight: 490 grams (1.08 pounds)
- Manufacturer: Western Digital Corporation
Western Digital WD1600HLFS Hard Drives:
- WD1600HLFS-75G6U1, DCM EBCV2B, Western Digital 160GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1600HLFS-75G6U0, DCM EBCV2B, Western Digital 160GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1600HLFS-60G6U1, DCM EHCV2B, Western Digital 160GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1600HLFS-75G6U0, DCM EHCV2B, Western Digital 160GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1600HLFS-60G6U1, DCM EBCV2B, Western Digital 160GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1600HLFS-75G6U0, DCM EBCV2H, Western Digital 160GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1600HLFS-75G6U1, DCM EHCV2H, Western Digital 160GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1600HLFS-60G6U2, DCM EHCV2H, Western Digital 160GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1600HLFS-60G6U0, DCM EBCV2H, Western Digital 160GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1600HLFS-60G6U2, DCM EBCV2B, Western Digital 160GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
Western Digital WD1600HLFS 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 WD1600HLFS Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Western Digital WD1600HLFS 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:
2060-701543-003, etc.
Multiple Model Number revisions:
WD1600HLFS-60G6U1, WD1600HLFS-75G6U0, WD1600HLFS-75G6U1, WD1600HLFS-60G6U0, WD1600HLFS-60G6U2, etc.