WD1600JB Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 160GB and featuring a IDE interface. WD1600JB-00HSA0 Western Digital 160GB 7200RPM ATA-100 3.5-inch Hard Drive.
All information about the Western Digital WD1600JB hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Western Digital WD1600JB Technical Details:
- Hard Disk Model: WDC WD1600JB
- Disk Family: Caviar SE
- Form Factor: 3.5″
- Capacity: 160 GB (160 x 1 000 000 000 bytes)
- Number Of Disks: 1
- Number Of Heads: 2
- Rotational Speed: 7200 RPM
- Rotation Time: 8.33 ms
- Average Rotational Latency: 4.17 ms
- Disk Interface: Ultra-ATA/100
- Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 100 MB/seconds
- Buffer Size: 8192 KB
- Drive Ready Time (typical): 7 seconds
- Average Seek Time: 8.9 ms
- Track To Track Seek Time: 2.0 ms
- Full Stroke Seek Time: 21.0 ms
- Width: 101.6 mm (4.00 inch)
- Depth: 147 mm (5.79 inch)
- Height: 25.4 mm (1.00 inch)
- Weight: 485 grams (1.07 pounds)
- Acoustic (Idle): 2.4 Bel
- Acoustic (Min performance and volume): 2.5 Bel
- Acoustic (Max performance and volume): 2.7 Bel
- Required Power For Spinup: 930 mA
- Power Required (Seek): 6.61 W
- Power Required (Idle): 6.24 W
- Power Required (Standby): 0.97 W
- Manufacturer: Western Digital Corporation
Western Digital WD1600JB Hard Drives:
- WD1600JB-00REA0, DCM HSBHNT2CHN, Western Digital 160GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1600JB-40GVC0, DCM HSCANTJAH, Western Digital 160GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1600JB-00REA0, DCM DBBHNTJAHN, Western Digital 160GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1600JB-00FUA0, DCM HSCHCTJAH, Western Digital 160GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1600JB-00REA0, DCM HBCACTJCA, Western Digital 160GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1600JB-00REA0, DCM HSBAYTJCA, Western Digital 160GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1600JB-00HSA0, DCM FSBHCTJAH, Western Digital 160GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1600JB-00REA0, DCM HSBANT2AA, Western Digital 160GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1600JB-55GVC0, DCM DSBHNTJAH, Western Digital 160GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1600JB-00DUA3, DCM HSBHNVJAH, Western Digital 160GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1600JB-75GVC0, DCM DSBACTJAA, Western Digital 160GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1600JB-75GVC0, DCM HSCACTJCA, Western Digital 160GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1600JB-00EVA0, DCM HSCHCTJAH, Western Digital 160GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1600JB-00EVA0, DCM DSCHCTJAH, Western Digital 160GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1600JB-75GVA0, DCM HSBACTJAA, Western Digital 160GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1600JB-98REA0, DCM HSBHNTJCHN, Western Digital 160GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1600JB-00FUA0, DCM HSBACTJAA, Western Digital 160GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1600JB-32FUA0, DCM DSBHNAJAH, Western Digital 160GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1600JB-75GVA0, DCM HSBHCTJAH, Western Digital 160GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1600JB-22GVC0, DCM DSBHNTJAH, Western Digital 160GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1600JB-00DUA3, DCM DSBHCAJAH, Western Digital 160GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1600JB-57REA0, DCM HSCHNTJAHN, Western Digital 160GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1600JB-98REA0, DCM HSBHNTJCAN, Western Digital 160GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1600JB-00FUA0, DCM FSBACAJAH, Western Digital 160GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1600JB-00HSA0, DCM HSBHCTJAA, Western Digital 160GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
Western Digital WD1600JB 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 WD1600JB Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Western Digital WD1600JB 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:
2060-701292-001, 2060-001160-001, 2060-701292-002, 2060-001265-001, 2060-001179-003, 2061-001160-001, 2060-701265-001, etc.
Multiple Model Number revisions:
WD1600JB-40GVC0, WD1600JB-00REA0, WD1600JB-55GVC0, WD1600JB-75GVC0, WD1600JB-00EVA0, WD1600JB-57REA0, WD1600JB-98REA0, WD1600JB-00HSA0, WD1600JB-32FUA0, WD1600JB-22GVA0, WD1600JB-00FUA0, WD1600JB-00DUA3, WD1600JB-22GVC0, WD1600JB-75GVA0, etc.