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:
- Western Digital WD5000AAKX, 7200RPM, 6.0Gp/s, 500GB SATA 3.5″ HDD
- WD5000AAKX-60U6AA0, DCM HHNNHTJCHB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
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- WD5000AAKX-603CA0, DCM HHNNHT2AGN, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000AAKX-08U6AA0, DCM HANNHTJCH, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000AAKX-753CA1, DCM HANNHVJCH, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- 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
- WD5000AAKX-603CA0, DCM HGNNKTJCGN, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
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- WD5000AAKX-753CA1, DCM DGRNHT2AHB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000AAKX-60U6AA0, DCM DHRNHT2CE, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000AAKX-00ERMA0, DCM HHRNHTJAH, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000AAKX-00PWEA0, DCM HHRCHVJCH, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
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- WD5000AAKX-603CA0, DCM DHRNHT2MHN, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- 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.