WD4001FFSX Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 4TB and featuring a SATA interface. WD4001FFSX Western Digital Red Pro 4TB 7200RPM SATA 6GB/s 64MB Cache 3.5-inch Internal Hard Drive.

All information about the Western Digital WD4001FFSX hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Western Digital WD4001FFSX Technical Details:

  • Manufacturer: Western Digital
  • Manufacturer Website: www.wdc.com
  • Manufacturer Part No: WD4001FFSX
  • Product Series or Family: Red Pro
  • Product Type: Internal Hard Drive
  • Storage Capacity: 4TB
  • Spindle Speed: 7200RPM
  • Drive Interface: SATA 6.0Gbps
  • Form Factor: 3.5Inch
  • Cache: 64MB

Western Digital WD4001FFSX Hard Drives:

WD4001FFSX Western Digital 4TB SATA 3.5 Inch Hard Drive

  • WD4001FFSX-68JNUN0, DCM HANNNTJMAB, Western Digital 4TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD4001FFSX-68JNUN0, DCM HBNNNTJMBB, Western Digital 4TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive

Western Digital WD4001FFSX 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 WD4001FFSX Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Western Digital WD4001FFSX 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:
2060-771822-006, etc.

Multiple Model Number revisions:
WD4001FFSX-68JNUN0, etc.