WD5000AAKB Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a IDE interface. WD5000AAKB-00UKA0 Western Digital Caviar SE16 500GB 7200RPM ATA-100 16MB Cache 3.5-inch Hard Disk Drive.

All information about the Western Digital WD5000AAKB hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Western Digital WD5000AAKB Technical Details:

• Hard Disk Model: WDC WD5000AAKB
• Disk Family: Caviar Blue
• 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: 16384 KB
• Average Seek Time: 8.9 ms
• Track To Track Seek Time: 2 ms
• Full Stroke Seek Time: 21 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): 2.5 Bel
• Acoustic (Min performance and volume): 2.9 Bel
• Acoustic (Max performance and volume): 3.3 Bel
• Required Power For Spinup: 1375 mA
• Power Required (Seek): 8.3 W
• Power Required (Idle): 7.7 W
• Power Required (Standby): 1.0 W
• Manufacturer: Western Digital Corporation

Western Digital WD5000AAKB Hard Drives:

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• WD5000AAKB-00H8A0, DCM DANNHT2MGN, Western Digital 500GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
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• WD5000AAKB-00H8A0, DCM HHRNHT2CBB, Western Digital 500GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
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• WD5000AAKB-00H8A0, DCM HHRNNTJCHB, Western Digital 500GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
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• WD5000AAKB-00H8A0, DCM EBRNHT2MBB, Western Digital 500GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• WD5000AAKB-00H8A0, DCM HGNNNT2MGB, Western Digital 500GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• WD5000AAKB-00H8A0, DCM HBRNNT2MHB, Western Digital 500GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• WD5000AAKB-00H8A0, DCM HHRNNTJMHB, Western Digital 500GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• WD5000AAKB-00H8A0, DCM HHRNHT2MHB, Western Digital 500GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
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• WD5000AAKB-00UKA0, DCM HANCHV2AAB, Western Digital 500GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive

Western Digital WD5000AAKB 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 WD5000AAKB Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Western Digital WD5000AAKB 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, 2060-701596-001, etc.

Multiple Model Number revisions:
WD5000AAKB-22UKA0, WD5000AAKB-00UKA0, WD5000AAKB-00H8A0, etc.