WD5000AAKS Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a SATA interface. WD5000AAKS-OOUU3AO Western Digital 500GB 7200RPM SATA 3Gb/s 3.5-inch Hard Drive.
All information about the Western Digital WD5000AAKS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Western Digital WD5000AAKS Technical Details:
- Hard Disk Model: WDC WD5000AAKS
- Disk Family: Caviar Blue
- Form Factor: 3.5″
- Capacity: 500 GB (500 x 1 000 000 000 bytes)
- Number Of Disks: 1
- Number Of Heads: 2
- 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: 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): 2.9 Bel
- Acoustic (Min performance and volume): 3.0 Bel
- Acoustic (Max performance and volume): 3.0 Bel
- Required Power For Spinup: 1770 mA
- Power Required (Seek): 6.0 W
- Power Required (Idle): 5.6 W
- Power Required (Standby): 0.9 W
- Manufacturer: Western Digital Corporation
Western Digital WD5000AAKS Hard Drives:
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- WD5000AAKS-402AA0, DCM HGRNNTJAGN, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000AAKS-00A7B0, DCM HANNNV2MA, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000AAKS-65A7B0, DCM HANNHT2CA, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000AAKS-40YGA0, DCM HHNCHT2MHB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000AAKS-65V0A0, DCM HHRNHTJAAN, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000AAKS-75V0A0, DCM HHRNHTJAA, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000AAKS-75V0A0, DCM HARCHTJMHN, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000AAKS-75A7B0, DCM HARNNT2CAB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000AAKS-22A7B0, DCM HANNNV2CA, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000AAKS-00M9A0, DCM HHNCHTJAH, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000AAKS-75A7B0, DCM HHNNHT2CHB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000AAKS-00A7B2, DCM EANNNTJCA, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000AAKS-00D2B0, DCM HBNNHT2CB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000AAKS-00A7B2, DCM HARNHTJCA, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000AAKS-75YGA0, DCM HHRNHT2MHB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000AAKS-75TMA0, DCM HARCHV2CAB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000AAKS-00TMA0, DCM HBRCNV2AB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000AAKS-08WWPA0, DCM HGRNHTJMGN, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000AAKS-00D2B0, DCM HGNNHT2MHB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000AAKS-00YGA0, DCM DBNNHT2MBN, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000AAKS-40V2B0, DCM HHRNHT2MGN, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000AAKS-75V0A0, DCM HGRCHTJMHN, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000AAKS-65A7B0, DCM HHNNNT2CHB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000AAKS-22YGA0, DCM HHRNNT2CAB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
Western Digital WD5000AAKS 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 WD5000AAKS Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Western Digital WD5000AAKS 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, 2060-771640-005, 2060-771668-000, 2060-701444-004, 2060-701537-004, 2060-771640-002, 2060-771577-001, 2060-701590-001, 2060-701640-002, 2060-771590-001, 2060-701537-003, 2060-771640-003, 2060-701590-000, 2060-701477-002, 2060-701477-001, etc.
Multiple Model Number revisions:
WD5000AAKS-40YGA0, WD5000AAKS-00M9A0, WD5000AAKS-00TMA0, WD5000AAKS-402AA0, WD5000AAKS-41YGA1, WD5000AAKS-42H2B0, WD5000AAKS-60A7B2, WD5000AAKS-22V1A0, WD5000AAKS-07A7B0, WD5000AAKS-22TMA0, WD5000AAKS-65YGA0, WD5000AAKS-08WWPA0, WD5000AAKS-40V2B0, WD5000AAKS-00V0A0, WD5000AAKS-40YGA1, WD5000AAKS-65TMA0, WD5000AAKS-55V0A0, WD5000AAKS-22A7B2, WD5000AAKS-60Z1A0, WD5000AAKS-00E4A0, WD5000AAKS-22YGA0, WD5000AAKS-00D2B0, WD5000AAKS-65A7B2, WD5000AAKS-40V6A0, WD5000AAKS-07TMA0, WD5000AAKS-65V0A0, WD5000AAKS-00Z7B0, WD5000AAKS-75V0A0, WD5000AAKS-007AA0, WD5000AAKS-65A7B0, WD5000AAKS-75YGA0, WD5000AAKS-22A7B0, WD5000AAKS-40TMA0, WD5000AAKS-00H2B0, WD5000AAKS-75A7B2, WD5000AAKS-60WWPA0, WD5000AAKS-07YGA0, WD5000AAKS-00WWPA0, WD5000AAKS-00V1A0, WD5000AAKS-00A7B0, WD5000AAKS-75TMA0, WD5000AAKS-00C8A0, WD5000AAKS-75A7B0, WD5000AAKS-00UU3A0, WD5000AAKS-00A7B2, WD5000AAKS-00YGA0, etc.