WD5000AADS Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a SATA interface. WD5000AADS Western Digital Caviar Green 500GB 7200RPM SATA 3GB/s 7-Pin 32MB Cache 3.5-inch Hard Drive.

All information about the Western Digital WD5000AADS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Western Digital WD5000AADS Technical Details:

  • Hard Disk Model: WDC WD5000AADS
  • Disk Family: Caviar Green
  • Form Factor: 3.5″
  • Capacity: 500 GB (500 x 1 000 000 000 bytes)
  • Number Of Disks: 1
  • Number Of Heads: 2
  • Disk Interface: Serial-ATA/300
  • Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 300 MB/seconds
  • Buffer Size: 32768 KB
  • Width: 101.6 mm (4.00 inch)
  • Depth: 147 mm (5.79 inch)
  • Height: 26.1 mm (1.03 inch)
  • Weight: 450 grams (0.99 pounds)
  • Acoustic (Idle): 2.4 Bel
  • Acoustic (Min performance and volume): 2.5 Bel
  • Acoustic (Max performance and volume): 2.9 Bel
  • Required Power For Spinup: 1392 mA
  • Power Required (Seek): 5.4 W
  • Power Required (Idle): 2.5 W
  • Power Required (Standby): 0.46 W
  • Manufacturer: Western Digital Corporation

Western Digital WD5000AADS Hard Drives:

WD5000AADS Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5 Inch Hard Drive

  • WD5000AADS-56S9B1, DCM HGRNHT2CHN, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000AADS-00S9B0, DCM HHNNHT2AHB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000AADS-00S9B0, DCM HGNCHT2AGN, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000AADS-00S9B0, DCM HHNCHT2CGN, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000AADS-00M2B0, DCM HGNNNV2MHB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000AADS-00S9B0, DCM HARNCNT2CHN, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000AADS-00L4B1, DCM DANNHTJCGB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000AADS-11M2B2, DCM DBNYHT2MHB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000AADS-00M2B0, DCM DHNNNT2MAB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000AADS-00S9B0, DCM EHRCHT2CH, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000AADS-00S9B0, DCM HANNHT2CGB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000AADS-00S9B0, DCM HHNNHT2AH, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000AADS-00M2B0, DCM DGNCHV2MHB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000AADS-56S9B0, DCM HBRCHV2AEN, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000AADS-00S9B0, DCM HGNCHT2CHN, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000AADS-11M2B1, DCM HANYHT2MGB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000AADS-11M2B1, DCM HARNHT2CH, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000AADS-00M2B0, DCM HGRNNT2MGB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000AADS-11M2B2, DCM HBRNHT2MBB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000AADS-11M2B1, DCM DBNYHT2MAB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000AADS-00S9B0, DCM HHNNHT2CEN, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000AADS-11M2B2, DCM EHRCHT2MGB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000AADS-00M2B0, DCM EGNCHV2MAB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000AADS-57S9B1, DCM HHNNHT2AEN, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000AADS-00M2B0, DCM HHNNHV2MAB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive

Western Digital WD5000AADS 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 WD5000AADS Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Western Digital WD5000AADS 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:
2060-701640-000, 2060-701640-001, 2060-771640-003, 2060-701590-000, 2060-701640-002, 2060-701640-007, etc.

Multiple Model Number revisions:
WD5000AADS-57S9B1, WD5000AADS-56S9B1, WD5000AADS-56S9B0, WD5000AADS-00M2B0, WD5000AADS-00S9B0, WD5000AADS-00L4B1, WD5000AADS-11M2B1, WD5000AADS-11M2B2, etc.