WD20PURZ Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 2TB and featuring a SATA interface. WD20PURZ Western Digital Purple WD20PURZ 2TB 5400RPM SATA3/SATA 6.0 GB/s 64MB Hard Drive (3.5 inch).
All information about the Western Digital WD20PURZ hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Western Digital WD20PURZ Technical Details:
- Manufacturer: Western Digital
- Manufacturer Part No: WD20PURZ
- Product Series or Family: WD Purple
- Product Type: Internal Hard Drive
- Storage Capacity: 2TB
- Spindle Speed: 5400RPM
- Drive Interface: SATA 6.0Gbps
- Form Factor: 3.5Inch
- Cache: 64MB
Western Digital WD20PURZ Hard Drives:
- WD20PURZ-85GU6Y0, DCM HARNNTJMAB, Western Digital 2TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD20PURZ-85GU6Y0, DCM HARCKTJMHB, Western Digital 2TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
Western Digital WD20PURZ 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 WD20PURZ Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Western Digital WD20PURZ 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:
2060-771945-002, etc.Multiple Model Number revisions:
WD20PURZ-85GU6Y0, etc.
