WD2500BEKX Western Digital 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 250GB and featuring a SATA interface. WD2500BEKX Western Digital Black 250GB 7200RPM SATA 6GB/s 16MB Cache 2.5-inch Hard Disk Drive.

All information about the Western Digital WD2500BEKX hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Western Digital WD2500BEKX Technical Details:

• Hard Disk Model: WDC WD2500BEKX
• Disk Family: Scorpio Black
• Form Factor: 2.5″
• Capacity: 250 GB (250 x 1 000 000 000 bytes)
• Rotational Speed: 7200 RPM
• Rotation Time: 8.33 ms
• Average Rotational Latency: 4.17 ms
• Disk Interface: Serial-ATA/600
• Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 600 MB/seconds
• Buffer Size: 16384 KB
• Drive Ready Time (typical): 3 seconds
• Average Seek Time: 12 ms
• Track To Track Seek Time: 2 ms
• Width: 69.85 mm (2.75 inch)
• Depth: 100.2 mm (3.94 inch)
• Height: 9.5 mm (0.37 inch)
• Weight: 106 grams (0.23 pounds)
• Manufacturer: Western Digital Corporation

Western Digital WD2500BEKX Hard Drives:

• WD2500BEKX-00B7WT0, DCM HHNTJHK, Western Digital 250GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
• WD2500BEKX-00B7WT0, DCM HEOTJAB, Western Digital 250GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
• WD2500BEKX-00B7WT0, DCM HHOTJHK, Western Digital 250GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
• WD2500BEKX-00B7WT0, DCM HHOTJAK, Western Digital 250GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive

Western Digital WD2500BEKX 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 WD2500BEKX Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Western Digital WD2500BEKX 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:
2060-771692-006, etc.

Multiple Model Number revisions:
WD2500BEKX-00B7WT0, etc.