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.