WD2500SD Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 250GB and featuring a SATA interface. WD2500SD-01KCBO Western Digital 250GB 7200RPM SATA 1.5Gb/s 3.5-inch Hard Drive.

All information about the Western Digital WD2500SD hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Western Digital WD2500SD Technical Details:

  • Manufacturer: Western Digital
  • Manufacturer Website: www.wdc.com
  • Manufacturer Part No: WD2500SD
  • Product Series or Family: Caviar RE
  • Product Type: Internal Hard Drive
  • Storage Capacity: 250GB
  • Spindle Speed: 7200RPM
  • Drive Interface: SATA 1.5Gbps
  • Form Factor: 3.5Inch
  • Cache: 8MB

Western Digital WD2500SD Hard Drives:

WD2500SD Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5 Inch Hard Drive

  • WD2500SD-01KCB0, DCM HSBHCTJAH, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD2500SD-01KCB0, DCM HSBHCTJAA, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD2500SD-01KCC0, DCM HSBACTJAA, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD2500SD-01KCC0, DCM DSBHCTJAH, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD2500SD-01KCC0, DCM DSBHCTJCH, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD2500SD-01KCC0, DCM DSCHCTJAA, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD2500SD-01KCC0, DCM HSBHCTJAH, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD2500SD-01KCB0, DCM HSCHCTJAH, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive

Western Digital WD2500SD 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 WD2500SD Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Western Digital WD2500SD 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:
2060-701267-001, 2060-001267-001, etc.

Multiple Model Number revisions:
WD2500SD-01KCC0, WD2500SD-01KCB0, etc.