WD5000AAJB Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a IDE interface. PCB-WD5000AAJB-00UHA Western Digital WD 500GB 5000aajb-00uha0 2061-701508-100 Aa Ide 3.5 PCb.

All information about the Western Digital WD5000AAJB hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Western Digital WD5000AAJB Technical Details:

• Hard Disk Model: WDC WD5000AAJB
• Disk Family: Caviar SE
• Form Factor: 3.5″
• Capacity: 500 GB (500 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: Ultra-ATA/100
• Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 100 MB/seconds
• Buffer Size: 8192 KB
• Drive Ready Time (typical): 7 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: 630 grams (1.39 pounds)
• Acoustic (Idle): 2.6 Bel
• Acoustic (Min performance and volume): 2.8 Bel
• Acoustic (Max performance and volume): 2.9 Bel
• Required Power For Spinup: 1110 mA
• Power Required (Seek): 8.77 W
• Power Required (Idle): 8.4 W
• Power Required (Standby): 0.97 W
• Manufacturer: Western Digital Corporation

Western Digital WD5000AAJB Hard Drives:

• WD5000AAJB-00YRA0, DCM HHNNHT2CAB, Western Digital 500GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• WD5000AAJB-00YRA0, DCM HANNNT2MAB, Western Digital 500GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• WD5000AAJB-00UHA0, DCM HARCNV2CHB, Western Digital 500GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• WD5000AAJB-00UHA0, DCM HBRCNV2CAB, Western Digital 500GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• WD5000AAJB-14UHA0, DCM DHNCHV2MBB, Western Digital 500GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• WD5000AAJB-00UHA0, DCM DANCNV2CHB, Western Digital 500GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• WD5000AAJB-00UHA0, DCM DHNCNV2CAB, Western Digital 500GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• WD5000AAJB-00UHA0, DCM DHNCNV2MHB, Western Digital 500GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• WD5000AAJB-00YRA0, DCM HHRNNT2CHB, Western Digital 500GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• WD5000AAJB-00YRA0, DCM HBNCHT2CHB, Western Digital 500GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• WD5000AAJB-00YRA0, DCM HARNHT2CAN, Western Digital 500GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• WD5000AAJB-00UHA0, DCM HANCHV2AHB, Western Digital 500GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• WD5000AAJB-00UHA0, DCM DHNCHV2AAB, Western Digital 500GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• WD5000AAJB-00YRA0, DCM DHNNHT2AAB, Western Digital 500GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• WD5000AAJB-00YRA0, DCM HBRCNT2MBB, Western Digital 500GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• WD5000AAJB-00YRA0, DCM DANCNT2MAB, Western Digital 500GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• WD5000AAJB-00YRA0, DCM DBRNHT2CBN, Western Digital 500GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• WD5000AAJB-00UHA0, DCM HARCHV2CAB, Western Digital 500GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• WD5000AAJB-00UHA0, DCM HANCHV2CH, Western Digital 500GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• WD5000AAJB-00YRA0, DCM HHRNNT2MHB, Western Digital 500GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• WD5000AAJB-00UHA0, DCM HBNCNV2CHN, Western Digital 500GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• WD5000AAJB-00UHA0, DCM HBNCNV2ABN, Western Digital 500GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive

Western Digital WD5000AAJB 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 WD5000AAJB Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Western Digital WD5000AAJB 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:
2060-701508-001, etc.

Multiple Model Number revisions:
WD5000AAJB-14UHA0, WD5000AAJB-00YRA0, WD5000AAJB-00UHA0, etc.