WD5000AAKX Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a SATA interface. WD5000AAKX-06 Western Digital 500GB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 3.5-inch Hard Drive.

All information about the Western Digital WD5000AAKX hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Western Digital WD5000AAKX Technical Details:

  • Hard Disk Model: WDC WD5000AAKX
  • 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/600
  • Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 600 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: 690 grams (1.52 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 WD5000AAKX Hard Drives:

WD5000AAKX Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5 Inch Hard Drive

  • Western Digital WD5000AAKX, 7200RPM, 6.0Gp/s, 500GB SATA 3.5″ HDD
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  • WD5000AAKX-603CA0, DCM HGNNKTJMGN, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
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  • WD5000AAKX-083CA1, DCM HHRNNT2CH, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000AAKX-001CA0, DCM HHNNHVJCH, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
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  • WD5000AAKX-00ERMA0, DCM HHRNHTJAH, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
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  • WD5000AAKX-603CA0, DCM HHRNHT2AHN, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive

Western Digital WD5000AAKX 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 WD5000AAKX Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Western Digital WD5000AAKX 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:
2060-771640-005, 2060-771698-004, 2060-771702-001, 2060-701640-003, 2060-771640-003, etc.

Multiple Model Number revisions:
WD5000AAKX, WD5000AAKX-009FA0, WD5000AAKX-35U6AA0, WD5000AAKX-00KJ3A0, WD5000AAKX-00U6AA0, WD5000AAKX-00PWEA0, WD5000AAKX-083CA0, WD5000AAKX-08ANVA0, WD5000AAKX-001CA0, WD5000AAKX-753CA1, WD5000AAKX-003CA0, WD5000AAKX-603CA0, WD5000AAKX-753CA0, WD5000AAKX-083CA1, WD5000AAKX-60U6AA0, WD5000AAKX-22ERMA0, WD5000AAKX-221CA1, WD5000AAKX-08ERMA0, WD5000AAKX-08U6AA0, WD5000AAKX-221CA0, WD5000AAKX-75U6AA0, WD5000AAKX-00ERMA0, etc.