WD400JS Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 40 GB and featuring a SATA interface. WD400JS WD 3.5″ 40 GB Serial-ATA/300 Caviar SE 7200 RPM Hard Drive.

All information about the Western Digital WD400JS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Western Digital WD400JS Technical Details:

  • Hard Disk Model: WDC WD400JS-
  • Disk Family: Caviar SE
  • Form Factor: 3.5″
  • Capacity: 40 GB (40 x 1 000 000 000 bytes)
  • 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): 9 seconds
  • Average Seek Time: 8.9 ms
  • Track To Track Seek Time: 2 ms
  • Full Stroke Seek Time: 21 ms
  • Width: 101.6 mm (3.98 inch)
  • Depth: 147 mm (5.79 inch)
  • Height: 25.4 mm (0.98 inch)
  • Manufacturer: Western Digital Corporation

Western Digital WD400JS Hard Drives:

  • WD400JS WD 3.5″ 40 GB Serial-ATA/300 Caviar SE 7200 RPM Hard Drive.

Western Digital WD400JS 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 WD400JS Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Western Digital WD400JS hard drive experience is a burned circuit board (PCB). Therefore, if you need to replace the PCB, be sure to match the “PCB Number” of the current board, such as etc.