WD2500KS Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 250GB and featuring a SATA interface.
All information about the Western Digital WD2500KS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Western Digital WD2500KS Technical Details:
- Hard Disk Model: Western Digital WD2500KS
- Disk Family: Caviar SE16
- Form Factor: 3.5″
- Capacity: 250 GB (250 000 000 000 bytes)
- Number Of Disks: 3
- Number Of Heads: 6
- Rotational Speed: 7200 RPM
- Rotation Time: 8.33 ms
- Average Rotational Latency: 4.17 ms
- Disk Interface: SATA 3 Gb/s (SATA II)
- Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 300.0 MB/seconds
- Buffer Size: 16 MB
- Drive Ready Time (typical): 5.0 seconds
- Average Seek Time: 8.9 ms
- Track To Track Seek Time: 2.0 ms
- Width: 101.6 mm (4.00 inch)
- Depth: 147.0 mm (5.79 inch)
- Height: 26.1 mm (1.03 inch)
- Weight: 630 grams (1.39 pounds)
- Acoustic (Idle): 2.8 Bel
- Acoustic (Min performance and volume): 2.8 Bel
- Acoustic (Max performance and volume): 3.3 Bel
- Required Power For Spinup: 12V / 5V (Peak 1.95A)
- Power Required (Seek): 7.8 W
- Power Required (Idle): 5.4 W
- Power Required (Standby): 0.9 W
- Manufacturer: Western Digital Corporation
Western Digital WD2500KS Hard Drives:
- WD2500KS-00MJB0, DCM DSCAYTLAA, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2500KS-00MJB0, DCM DSCANT2CA, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2500KS-00MJB0, DCM DSCHNTKAH, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2500KS-00MJB0, DCM DSBANTKAA, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2500KS-00MJB0, DCM HBBHCTJAHN, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2500KS-00MJB0, DCM DBBHNTJAHN, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2500KS-00MJB0, DCM HSBANT2CHB, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2500KS-00MJB0, DCM DBCHCTJCAB, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2500KS-00MJB0, DCM DSBACT2AAN, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
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- WD2500KS-00MJB0, DCM HSCANTJCHB, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2500KS-00MJB0, DCM HSBAYT2CAB, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2500KS-00MJB0, DCM DSBHYT2AHN, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2500KS-00MJB0, DCM HSBHYTJAAN, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2500KS-00MJB0, DCM DSBHNTJAH, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2500KS-00MJB0, DCM DSBHYTJCHB, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2500KS-00MJB0, DCM DSCHNTJAA, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2500KS-00MJB0, DCM HSCAYT2CHB, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2500KS-00MJB0, DCM DSBACT2AAB, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2500KS-00MJB0, DCM DSBNTJCHN, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2500KS-00MJB0, DCM DSCACTKAA, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2500KS-00MJB0, DCM DSBHCTJAH, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2500KS-00MJB0, DCM HBBHNTJAHN, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2500KS-00MJB0, DCM DSCANT2AHN, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD2500KS-00MJB0, DCM HSBHYT2CHN, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
Western Digital WD2500KS 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 WD2500KS Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Western Digital WD2500KS 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:
2060-701335-003, 2060-701335-005, etc.
Multiple Model Number revisions:
WD2500KS-00MJB0, etc.