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:

WD5000AAKS Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5 Inch Hard Drive

  • Western Digital Caviar 3.5" 500GB SATA Hard Drive WD5000AAKS 16MB Cache Bulk/OEM 7200 RPM Desktop
  • 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.