WD205BA Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 20.5GB and featuring a IDE interface. WD205BA Western Digital 20.5GB 7200RPM EIDE 40-Pin 2MB Cache Ultra-dma 66 3.5-inch Low Profile (1.0 inch) Hard Drive.
All information about the Western Digital WD205BA hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Western Digital WD205BA Technical Details:
- Hard Disk Model: WDC WD205BA
- Disk Family: Caviar
- Form Factor: 3.5″
- Capacity: 20 GB (20 x 1 000 000 000 bytes)
- Number Of Disks: 3
- Number Of Heads: 6
- Rotational Speed: 5400 RPM
- Rotation Time: 11.11 ms
- Average Rotational Latency: 5.56 ms
- Disk Interface: Ultra-ATA/100
- Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 66 MB/seconds
- Buffer Size: 2048 KB
- Drive Ready Time (typical): 16 seconds
- Average Seek Time: 15 ms
- Track To Track Seek Time: 2.0 ms
- Full Stroke Seek Time: 23 ms
- Width: 101.6 mm (4.00 inch)
- Depth: 147 mm (5.79 inch)
- Height: 26.1 mm (1.03 inch)
- Weight: 500 grams (1.10 pounds)
- Acoustic (Idle): 3.8 Bel
- Acoustic (Min performance and volume): 4.2 Bel
- Acoustic (Max performance and volume): 4.5 Bel
- Required Power For Spinup: 2330 mA
- Power Required (Seek): 10.1 W
- Power Required (Idle): 6.9 W
- Power Required (Standby): 0.8 W
- Manufacturer: Western Digital Corporation
Western Digital WD205BA Hard Drives:
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Western Digital WD205BA 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 WD205BA Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Western Digital WD205BA 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:
2060-600841-003, 60-600841-003, etc.
Multiple Model Number revisions:
WD205BA-00AGA0, etc.