WD4000AAJS Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 400GB and featuring a SATA interface. WD4000AAJS-65TKA0 Western Digital Caviar Blue 400GB 7200RPM SATA 3GB/s 8MB Cache 3.5-inch Hard Disk Drive.

All information about the Western Digital WD4000AAJS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Western Digital WD4000AAJS Technical Details:

  • Hard Disk Model: WDC WD4000AAJS
  • Disk Family: Caviar SE
  • Form Factor: 3.5″
  • Capacity: 400 GB (400 x 1 000 000 000 bytes)
  • Number Of Disks: 2
  • Number Of Heads: 4
  • 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: 8192 KB
  • Drive Ready Time (typical): 12 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: 600 grams (1.32 pounds)
  • Acoustic (Idle): 2.6 Bel
  • Acoustic (Min performance and volume): 2.8 Bel
  • Acoustic (Max performance and volume): 2.8 Bel
  • Required Power For Spinup: 1055 mA
  • Power Required (Seek): 7.8 W
  • Power Required (Idle): 7.2 W
  • Power Required (Standby): 0.97 W
  • Manufacturer: Western Digital Corporation

Western Digital WD4000AAJS Hard Drives:

WD4000AAJS Western Digital 400GB SATA 3.5 Inch Hard Drive

  • Western Digital Caviar SE WD4000AAJS 400GB 3.5″ SATA II Desktop Hard Drive
  • WD4000AAJS-00TKA0, DCM DHNCNV2CHB, Western Digital 400GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD4000AAJS-00YFA0, DCM DARCHT2AAB, Western Digital 400GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD4000AAJS-00TKA0, DCM HARCHV2AAB, Western Digital 400GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD4000AAJS-00YFA0, DCM DHRCHT2AHN, Western Digital 400GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD4000AAJS-00YFA0, DCM DBNNHT2AHB, Western Digital 400GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD4000AAJS-65YFA0, DCM HBRNNT2CHB, Western Digital 400GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD4000AAJS-00YFA0, DCM DARCHT2MAB, Western Digital 400GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD4000AAJS-00YFA0, DCM HARNHT2AHB, Western Digital 400GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD4000AAJS-22YFA0, DCM HHNNNT2MAB, Western Digital 400GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD4000AAJS-22YFA0, DCM HHNNNT2CHB, Western Digital 400GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD4000AAJS-65YFA0, DCM DBRNNT2CBB, Western Digital 400GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD4000AAJS-65TKA0, DCM HHNCNV2AAB, Western Digital 400GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD4000AAJS-65YFA0, DCM DANNNT2ABB, Western Digital 400GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD4000AAJS-32YFA0, DCM HARNHT2ABB, Western Digital 400GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD4000AAJS-22YFA0, DCM HARNHT2MAB, Western Digital 400GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD4000AAJS-65YFA0, DCM DHRNNT2CHB, Western Digital 400GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD4000AAJS-22YFA0, DCM DANNHT2MAB, Western Digital 400GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD4000AAJS-65YFA0, DCM HANCHT2AAB, Western Digital 400GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD4000AAJS-00TKA0, DCM HHRCHV2AHN, Western Digital 400GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD4000AAJS-22TKA0, DCM HHNCNV2AHN, Western Digital 400GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD4000AAJS-65TKA0, DCM HHNCHV2AHB, Western Digital 400GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD4000AAJS-00YFA0, DCM HBNNNT2AHB, Western Digital 400GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD4000AAJS-65TKA0, DCM HHNCNV2MBB, Western Digital 400GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD4000AAJS-22YFA0, DCM DHNNHT2MAB, Western Digital 400GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive

Western Digital WD4000AAJS 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 WD4000AAJS Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Western Digital WD4000AAJS 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:
2060-701477-002, 2060-701477-001, 2060-701444-004, etc.

Multiple Model Number revisions:
WD4000AAJS-32YFA0, WD4000AAJS-00YFA0, WD4000AAJS-65TKA0, WD4000AAJS-00TKA0, WD4000AAJS-22YFA0, WD4000AAJS-22TKA0, WD4000AAJS-65YFA0, etc.