WD30EFRX Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 3TB and featuring a SATA interface. WD30EFRX-68AX9NO Western Digital 3TB 5400RPM SATA 6Gb/s 3.5-inch Hard Drive.

All information about the Western Digital WD30EFRX hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Western Digital WD30EFRX Technical Details:

  • Hard Disk Model: WDC WD30EFRX
  • Disk Family: Red
  • Form Factor: 3.5″
  • Capacity: 3 TB (3 x 1 000 000 000 000 bytes)
  • Number Of Disks: 3
  • Number Of Heads: 6
  • Rotational Speed: 5400 RPM
  • Rotation Time: 11.11 ms
  • Average Rotational Latency: 5.56 ms
  • Disk Interface: Serial-ATA/600
  • Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 600 MB/seconds
  • Buffer Size: 65536 KB
  • Width: 101.6 mm (4.00 inch)
  • Depth: 147 mm (5.79 inch)
  • Height: 26.1 mm (1.03 inch)
  • Weight: 640 grams (1.41 pounds)
  • Acoustic (Idle): 2.3 Bel
  • Acoustic (Min performance and volume): 2.4 Bel
  • Acoustic (Max performance and volume): 2.4 Bel
  • Required Power For Spinup: 1730 mA
  • Power Required (Seek): 4.4 W
  • Power Required (Idle): 4.1 W
  • Power Required (Standby): 0.6 W
  • Manufacturer: Western Digital Corporation

Western Digital WD30EFRX Hard Drives:

WD30EFRX Western Digital 3TB SATA 3.5 Inch Hard Drive

  • WD30EFRX-68EUZN0, DCM HHRCKT2CHB, Western Digital 3TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
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  • WD30EFRX-68EUZN0, DCM HANNNT2CA, Western Digital 3TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD30EFRX-68N32N0, DCM HHNNNT2MAB, Western Digital 3TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD30EFRX-68AX9N0, DCM HGRNHTJMHB, Western Digital 3TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD30EFRX-68AX9N0, DCM DARNHTJCH, Western Digital 3TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD30EFRX-68EUZN0, DCM DARNNTJCH, Western Digital 3TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD30EFRX-68EUZN0, DCM DARNKTJCA, Western Digital 3TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD30EFRX-68EUZN0, DCM HHRNHTJCAB, Western Digital 3TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD30EFRX-68EUZN0, DCM HHNNHTJCHB, Western Digital 3TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD30EFRX-68EUZN0, DCM HANNKT2MHB, Western Digital 3TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD30EFRX-68EUZN0, DCM DGRNKTJMG, Western Digital 3TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD30EFRX-68AX9N0, DCM DGNNNVJCG, Western Digital 3TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD30EFRX-68EUZN0, DCM DHRNNTJCH, Western Digital 3TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD30EFRX-68AX9N0, DCM HGNNNTJMH, Western Digital 3TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD30EFRX-68AX9N0, DCM HGNNHTJCHB, Western Digital 3TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD30EFRX-68AX9N0, DCM HARNHTJMGB, Western Digital 3TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
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  • WD30EFRX-68AX9N0, DCM DGNNNTJCG, Western Digital 3TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD30EFRX-68EUZN0, DCM HARNHTJCA, Western Digital 3TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD30EFRX-68EUZN0, DCM HARNNT2MHB, Western Digital 3TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD30EFRX-68EUZN0, DCM DHNNNT2MAB, Western Digital 3TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD30EFRX-68EUZN0, DCM HHNNKT2CA, Western Digital 3TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive

Western Digital WD30EFRX 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 WD30EFRX Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Western Digital WD30EFRX 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:
2060-800055-002, 2060-771945-002, 2060-771945-001, 2060-771824-003, etc.

Multiple Model Number revisions:
WD30EFRX-68N32N0, WD30EFRX-68EUZN0, WD30EFRX-68AX9N0, etc.