WD30NMZW Western Digital 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 3TB and featuring a USB interface.
All information about the Western Digital WD30NMZW hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Western Digital WD30NMZW Technical Details:
- Hard Disk Model: Western Digital WD30NMZW
- Disk Family: WD Blue (External OEM Laptop Drive)
- Form Factor: 2.5″
- Capacity: 3000 GB (3 000 000 000 000 bytes)
- Number Of Disks: 4
- Number Of Heads: 8
- Rotational Speed: 5400 RPM
- Rotation Time: 11.11 ms
- Average Rotational Latency: 5.56 ms
- Disk Interface: USB 3.0 Native (SMR)
- Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 500.0 MB/seconds
- Buffer Size: 128 MB
- Drive Ready Time (typical): 4.2 seconds
- Average Seek Time: 13.0 ms
- Track To Track Seek Time: 2.5 ms
- Width: 69.85 mm (2.75 inch)
- Depth: 100.2 mm (3.94 inch)
- Height: 15.0 mm (0.59 inch)
- Weight: 180 grams (0.40 pounds)
- Acoustic (Idle): 2.5 Bel
- Acoustic (Min performance and volume): 2.5 Bel
- Acoustic (Max performance and volume): 2.7 Bel
- Required Power For Spinup: 5V (Peak 1.2A)
- Power Required (Seek): 1.9 W
- Power Required (Idle): 0.7 W
- Power Required (Standby): 0.15 W
- Manufacturer: Western Digital Corporation
Western Digital WD30NMZW Hard Drives:
- WD30NMZW-11GX6S1, DCM , Western Digital 3TB USB 2.5″ Hard Drive
- WD30NMZW-59GX6S1, DCM , Western Digital 3TB USB 2.5″ Hard Drive
- WD30NMZW-11LG6S1, DCM , Western Digital 3TB USB 2.5″ Hard Drive
Western Digital WD30NMZW 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 WD30NMZW Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Western Digital WD30NMZW 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:
2060-800041-003, etc.
Multiple Model Number revisions:
WD30NMZW-11GX6S1, WD30NMZW-59GX6S1, WD30NMZW-11LG6S1, etc.