WD200AB Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 20GB and featuring a IDE interface. WD200AB Western Digital Caviar 20GB 5400RPM ATA-100 2MB Cache 3.5-inch Hard Disk Drive.
All information about the Western Digital WD200AB hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Western Digital WD200AB Technical Details:
- Hard Disk Model: WDC WD200AB
- Disk Family: Caviar
- Form Factor: 3.5″
- Capacity: 20 GB (20 x 1 000 000 000 bytes)
- Number Of Disks: 2
- Number Of Heads: 4
- Rotational Speed: 5400 RPM
- Rotation Time: 11.11 ms
- Average Rotational Latency: 5.56 ms
- Disk Interface: Ultra-ATA/100
- Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 100 MB/seconds
- Buffer Size: 2048 KB
- Drive Ready Time (typical): 16 seconds
- Average Seek Time: 10.9 ms
- Track To Track Seek Time: 2.0 ms
- Full Stroke Seek Time: 21 ms
- Width: 101.6 mm (4.00 inch)
- Depth: 147 mm (5.79 inch)
- Height: 26.1 mm (1.03 inch)
- Weight: 600 grams (1.32 pounds)
- Acoustic (Idle): 3.2 Bel
- Acoustic (Min performance and volume): 3.5 Bel
- Acoustic (Max performance and volume): 3.6 Bel
- Required Power For Spinup: 2200 mA
- Power Required (Seek): 8.0 W
- Manufacturer: Western Digital Corporation
Western Digital WD200AB Hard Drives:
- WD200AB-00CDB0, DCM DSBHET2AH, Western Digital 20GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD200AB-00BVA0, DCM HSBHHT2CH, Western Digital 20GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD200AB-00CDB0, DCM RSBHET2CH, Western Digital 20GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD200AB-00BVA0, DCM DSBAHT2AA, Western Digital 20GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD200AB-00BVA0, DCM HSCAHT2AA, Western Digital 20GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD200AB-00CDB0, DCM RSBAET2CA, Western Digital 20GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD200AB-32BVA0, DCM HSBBHT2CB, Western Digital 20GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD200AB-00BVA0, DCM HSBHHQ2CH, Western Digital 20GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
Western Digital WD200AB 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 WD200AB Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Western Digital WD200AB 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:
2060-001092-006, 2060-001076-002, etc.
Multiple Model Number revisions:
WD200AB-00CDB0, WD200AB-32BVA0, WD200AB-00BVA0, etc.