WD400EB Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 40GB and featuring a IDE interface. WD400EB-71CPF0 Western Digital Protege 40GB 5400RPM IDE Ultra ATA-100 2MB Cache 3.5-inch Hard Drive.

All information about the Western Digital WD400EB hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Western Digital WD400EB Technical Details:

• Hard Disk Model: WDC WD400EB
• Disk Family: Protege
• Form Factor: 3.5″
• Capacity: 40 GB (40 x 1 000 000 000 bytes)
• Number Of Disks: 1
• Number Of Heads: 2
• Rotational Speed: 5400 RPM
• Rotation Time: 11.11 ms
• Average Rotational Latency: 5.56 ms
• Disk Interface: Ultra-ATA/100
• Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 100 MB/seconds
• Buffer Size: 2048 KB
• Drive Ready Time (typical): 6 seconds
• Average Seek Time: 12.8 ms
• Track To Track Seek Time: 2.0 ms
• Full Stroke Seek Time: 28.5 ms
• Width: 101.6 mm (4.00 inch)
• Depth: 147 mm (5.79 inch)
• Height: 25.4 mm (1.00 inch)
• Weight: 485 grams (1.07 pounds)
• Manufacturer: Western Digital Corporation

Western Digital WD400EB Hard Drives:

• WD400EB-75CPF0, DCM HSCANV2A, Western Digital 40GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• WD400EB-11JUF0, DCM ESBHYTJAH, Western Digital 40GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• WD400EB-11CPF0, DCM DSBBNV2A, Western Digital 40GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• WD400EB-11CPF0, DCM DSCANV2C, Western Digital 40GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• WD400EB-00DJF0, DCM HSBACVJAA, Western Digital 40GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• WD400EB-00CPF0, DCM HSBHNV2A, Western Digital 40GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• WD400EB-11JEF0, DCM DSBHNTJAH, Western Digital 40GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• WD400EB-75CPF0, DCM DSCANV2A, Western Digital 40GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• WD400EB-00CPF0, DCM DSBANV2A, Western Digital 40GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• WD400EB-11JEF0, DCM DSBHCTJAH, Western Digital 40GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• WD400EB-00CPF0, DCM HSCHNV2A, Western Digital 40GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• WD400EB-75CPF0, DCM DSCBNV2A, Western Digital 40GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• WD400EB-11CPF0, DCM HSBBNV2A, Western Digital 40GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• WD400EB-75CPF0, DCM HSBBNV2A, Western Digital 40GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• WD400EB-00CPF0, DCM HSBBYT2A, Western Digital 40GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• WD400EB-11CPF0, DCM HSCANV2A, Western Digital 40GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• WD400EB-11JUF0, DCM ESBYTJAH, Western Digital 40GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• WD400EB-00CPF0, DCM HSBANV2A, Western Digital 40GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• WD400EB-00CPF0, DCM DSBBNV2A, Western Digital 40GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• WD400EB-00CPF0, DCM DSCBYV2A, Western Digital 40GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• WD400EB-00CPF0, DCM HSCBYV2A, Western Digital 40GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• WD400EB-00CPF0, DCM DSBBYV2C, Western Digital 40GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• WD400EB-00CPF0, DCM HSBACT2C, Western Digital 40GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• WD400EB-00CPF0, DCM HSBBNV2C, Western Digital 40GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• WD400EB-00CPF0, DCM DSBBYV2A, Western Digital 40GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive

Western Digital WD400EB 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 WD400EB Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Western Digital WD400EB 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:
2060-001292-000, 2060-001113-000, 2060-001159-006, 2060-771590-001, 2060-001130-012, 2060-00113-001, 2060-001113-001, etc.

Multiple Model Number revisions:
WD400EB-00DJF0, WD400EB-11JEF0, WD400EB-75CPF0, WD400EB-11CPF0, WD400EB-11JUF0, WD400EB-00CPF0, etc.