WD2500BEVE Western Digital 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 250GB and featuring a IDE interface. WD2500BEVE Western Digital Scorpio Blue 250GB 5400RPM ATA-100 8MB Cache 2.5-inch Internal Hard Disk Drive.
All information about the Western Digital WD2500BEVE hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Western Digital WD2500BEVE Technical Details:
- Hard Disk Model: WDC WD2500BEVE
- Disk Family: Scorpio Blue
- Form Factor: 2.5″
- Capacity: 250 GB (250 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: 8192 KB
- Drive Ready Time (typical): 4 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: 100 grams (0.22 pounds)
- Acoustic (Idle): 2.2 Bel
- Acoustic (Min performance and volume): 2.5 Bel
- Acoustic (Max performance and volume): 2.5 Bel
- Required Power For Spinup: 500 mA
- Power Required (Seek): 2.5 W
- Power Required (Idle): 2.0 W
- Power Required (Standby): 0.30 W
- Manufacturer: Western Digital Corporation
Western Digital WD2500BEVE Hard Drives:
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- WD2500BEVE-00A0HT0, DCM DHNT2ABB, Western Digital 250GB IDE 2.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2500BEVE-00A0HT0, DCM HHOT2HNB, Western Digital 250GB IDE 2.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2500BEVE-00WZT0, DCM FBCTJANB, Western Digital 250GB IDE 2.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2500BEVE-00WZT0, DCM HHCTJAN, Western Digital 250GB IDE 2.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2500BEVE-00WZT0, DCM DANTJBNB, Western Digital 250GB IDE 2.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2500BEVE-00A0HT0, DCM DAYTJBNB, Western Digital 250gb IDE 2.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2500BEVE-22WZT0, DCM FACT2BBB, Western Digital 250GB IDE 2.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2500BEVE-00WZT0, DCM DHNTJHBB, Western Digital 250GB IDE 2.5″ Hard Drive
Western Digital WD2500BEVE 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 WD2500BEVE Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Western Digital WD2500BEVE 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:
2060-701532-000, etc.
Multiple Model Number revisions:
WD2500BEVE-00A0HT0, WD2500BEVE-22WZT0, WD2500BEVE-00WZT0, etc.