WD3200JB Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 320GB and featuring a IDE interface. WD3200JB Western Digital Caviar 320GB 7200RPM EIDE Internal 8MB Cache 3.5-inch Low Profile (1.0 inch) Hard Drive.

All information about the Western Digital WD3200JB hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Western Digital WD3200JB Technical Details:

• Hard Disk Model: WDC WD3200JB
• Disk Family: Caviar SE
• Form Factor: 3.5″
• Capacity: 320 GB (320 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: Ultra-ATA/100
• Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 100 MB/seconds
• Buffer Size: 8192 KB
• Drive Ready Time (typical): 7 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: 26.1 mm (1.03 inch)
• Weight: 600 grams (1.32 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: 980 mA
• Power Required (Seek): 8.6 W
• Power Required (Idle): 8.1 W
• Power Required (Standby): 1.1 W
• Manufacturer: Western Digital Corporation

Western Digital WD3200JB Hard Drives:

• WD3200JB-00KFA0, DCM HSCACA2CA, Western Digital 320GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• WD3200JB-00KFA0, DCM DSBHCAJCH, Western Digital 320GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• WD3200JB-00KFA0, DCM HSCACAJCA, Western Digital 320GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• WD3200JB-00KFA0, DCM HHBACAJCHN, Western Digital 320GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• WD3200JB-00KFA0, DCM DSBHCA2CH, Western Digital 320GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• WD3200JB-00KFA0, DCM DHCACA2CHN, Western Digital 320GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• WD3200JB-00KFA0, DCM DHBACA2CAN, Western Digital 320GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• WD3200JB-00KFA0, DCM HHBHCAJAAN, Western Digital 320GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• WD3200JB-00KFA0, DCM DHBHCAJCHN, Western Digital 320GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• WD3200JB-00KFA0, DCM HHBHCA2AH, Western Digital 320GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• WD3200JB-00KFA0, DCM HSCACAJAA, Western Digital 320GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• WD3200JB-00KFA0, DCM HHCACAJAHN, Western Digital 320GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• WD3200JB-00KFA0, DCM HHBHCAJCH, Western Digital 320GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• WD3200JB-00KFA0, DCM HHBACA2CHN, Western Digital 320GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• WD3200JB-00KFA0, DCM HHCACAJAAN, Western Digital 320GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• WD3200JB-00KFA0, DCM HHCHCAJCH, Western Digital 320GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• WD3200JB-00KFA0, DCM HHBACAJCAN, Western Digital 320GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• WD3200JB-00KFA0, DCM HHBACAJAHN, Western Digital 320GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• WD3200JB-00KFA0, DCM HHBHCA2CHN, Western Digital 320GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• WD3200JB-00KFA0, DCM HHCHCA2AHN, Western Digital 320GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• WD3200JB-00KFA0, DCM HHBHCA2AHN, Western Digital 320GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• WD3200JB-00KFA0, DCM HHBHCAJAH, Western Digital 320GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• WD3200JB-00KFA0, DCM HSBACAJCA, Western Digital 320GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• WD3200JB-00KFA0, DCM HHBACA2CAN, Western Digital 320GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• WD3200JB-00KFA0, DCM DSCHCAJCH, Western Digital 320GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive

Western Digital WD3200JB 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 WD3200JB Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Western Digital WD3200JB 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:
2060-701314-001, 2060-701314-002, 2060-701314-003, etc.

Multiple Model Number revisions:
WD3200JB-22KFA0, WD3200JB-00KFA0, etc.