WD2500YS Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 250GB and featuring a SATA interface. WD2500YS Western Digital 250GB 7200RPM SATA 3GB/s 7-Pin RAID Edition 16MB Cache 3.5-inch Low Profile (1.0 inch) Hard Drive.

All information about the Western Digital WD2500YS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Western Digital WD2500YS Technical Details:

  • Hard Disk Model: WDC WD2500YS
  • Disk Family: RE
  • 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: 16384 KB
  • Drive Ready Time (typical): 9 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: 25.4 mm (1.00 inch)
  • Weight: 730 grams (1.61 pounds)
  • Acoustic (Idle): 2.8 Bel
  • Acoustic (Min performance and volume): 2.9 Bel
  • Acoustic (Max performance and volume): 3.3 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 WD2500YS Hard Drives:

WD2500YS Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5 Inch Hard Drive

  • WD2500YS-01SHB1, DCM HBCHNTJAHN, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD2500YS-01SHB1, DCM DSBHYTJAHN, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD2500YS-18SHB2, DCM HSBHNTJAHN, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD2500YS-01SHB1, DCM DBBANTJAAN, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD2500YS-18SHB1, DCM HSBANTJCAN, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD2500YS-18SHB2, DCM HBBANTJAHN, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD2500YS-70SHB1, DCM DBBYTJAAN, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD2500YS-01SHB0, DCM HBBHNTJCAB, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD2500YS-01SHB0, DCM DBBACT2AAN, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD2500YS-01SHB0, DCM HBCHCT2CHN, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD2500YS-01SHB1, DCM HSBHYTJAAN, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD2500YS-70SHB1, DCM HSCHYTJAHN, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD2500YS-06SHB0, DCM DBBHYTJAHN, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD2500YS-01SHB1, DCM DSBHNT2AA, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD2500YS-18SHB0, DCM DSBACTJAHN, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD2500YS-18SHB1, DCM DSCHNTJAHN, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD2500YS-01SHB1, DCM HBBHNTJAHN, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD2500YS-01SHB0, DCM DBCHYT2CAN, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD2500YS-70SHB1, DCM HSBHNTJAHN, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD2500YS-23SHB0, DCM DSBHNTJAHN, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD2500YS-01SHB0, DCM HSBHNT2CHN, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD2500YS-70SHB1, DCM DSBHNTJAHN, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD2500YS-18SHB2, DCM DBBHNTJAHN, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD2500YS-01SHB0, DCM DBCHCT2AHN, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD2500YS-18SHB1, DCM DSBHNTJAHN, Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive

Western Digital WD2500YS 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 WD2500YS Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Western Digital WD2500YS 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:
2060-701335-005, etc.

Multiple Model Number revisions:
WD2500YS-06SHB0, WD2500YS-18SHB0, WD2500YS-23SHB0, WD2500YS-70SHB1, WD2500YS-18SHB1, WD2500YS-18SHB2, WD2500YS-01SHB1, WD2500YS-01SHB0, etc.