WD2500JS Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 250GB and featuring a SATA interface. WD2500JS-98SHB0 Western Digital 250GB 7200RPM SATA 3Gb/s 3.5-inch Hard Drive.
All information about the Western Digital WD2500JS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Western Digital WD2500JS Technical Details:
- Hard Disk Model: WDC WD2500JS
- Disk Family: Caviar SE
- Form Factor: 3.5″
- Capacity: 250 GB (250 x 1 000 000 000 bytes)
- Number Of Disks: 2
- Number Of Heads: 3
- Rotational Speed: 7200 RPM
- Rotation Time: 8.33 ms
- Average Rotational Latency: 4.17 ms
- Disk Interface: Serial-ATA/300
- Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 300 MB/seconds
- Buffer Size: 8192 KB
- Drive Ready Time (typical): 12 seconds
- Average Seek Time: 8.9 ms
- Track To Track Seek Time: 2.0 ms
- Full Stroke Seek Time: 21.0 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): 2.6 Bel
- Acoustic (Min performance and volume): 2.7 Bel
- Acoustic (Max performance and volume): 3.1 Bel
- Required Power For Spinup: 1250 mA
- Power Required (Seek): 9.5 W
- Power Required (Idle): 8.75 W
- Power Required (Standby): 1.6 W
- Manufacturer: Western Digital Corporation
Western Digital WD2500JS Hard Drives:
- Western Digital WD2500JS, 7200RPM, 3.0Gp/s, 250GB SATA 3.5″ HDD ?
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- WD2500JS-75NCB3, DCM HBBHNTJCHN, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2500JS-22NCB1, DCM DSBHNT2CH, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2500JS-75NCB1, DCM DSBHCTJAH, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2500JS-75NCB2, DCM DSBHCTJAH, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2500JS-60NCB1, DCM DSCACTJCA, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2500JS-60NCB1, DCM DSCACT2CA, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2500JS-75NCB3, DCM DSBACTJCA, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2500JS-22NCB1, DCM HBBHNTJCHN, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2500JS-55NCB1, DCM HSBHYTJAHN, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2500JS-60MHB1, DCM DSBACTJAA, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2500JS-60NCB1, DCM DSBHCTJCHB, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2500JS-60NCB1, DCM DSBACTJCHB, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2500JS-75NCB3, DCM DSBANTJCAN, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2500JS-75NCB2, DCM DSCACT2AA, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2500JS-00NCB1, DCM DSBHCT2AH, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2500JS-60NCB1, DCM DBBANT2AAB, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2500JS-75NCB2, DCM DSCACTJAA, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2500JS-40NGB2, DCM DSCACTJAA, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2500JS-40NGB2, DCM DSCACTJCA, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2500JS-75NCB1, DCM DSBACTJAA, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2500JS-60MHB1, DCM DSCACTJAA, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2500JS-75NCB3, DCM DSBHCTJCH, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
Western Digital WD2500JS 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 WD2500JS Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Western Digital WD2500JS 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:
2060-001267-001, 2060-701335-003, 2060-701335-005, etc.
Multiple Model Number revisions:
WD2500JS, WD2500JS-00MHB5, WD2500JS-63MHB5, WD2500JS-08MHB0, WD2500JS-75HBB0, WD2500JS-00SGB0, WD2500JS-00MHB0, WD2500JS-58NCB1, WD2500JS-75NCB2, WD2500JS-40MVB1, WD2500JS-00MVB1, WD2500JS-60NCB2, WD2500JS-98MHB0, WD2500JS-22NCB1, WD2500JS-00NCB1, WD2500JS-55MHB0, WD2500JS-98NCB1, WD2500JS-08NCB1, WD2500JS-41MVB1, WD2500JS-22MHB0, WD2500JS-55NCB1, WD2500JS-75NCB1, WD2500JS-23MHB0, WD2500JS-40TGB0, WD2500JS-75NCB3, WD2500JS-19NCB1, WD2500JS-60MHB1, WD2500JS-60MHB5, WD2500JS-60NCB1, WD2500JS-40NGB2, etc.