WD5000AVCS Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a SATA interface. WD5000AVCS Western Digital AV-GP 500GB 5400RPM SATA 3Gb/s 16MB Cache 3.5-inch Hard Drive.

All information about the Western Digital WD5000AVCS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Western Digital WD5000AVCS Technical Details:

  • Hard Disk Model: WDC WD5000AVCS
  • Disk Family: AV-GP
  • Form Factor: 3.5″
  • Capacity: 500 GB (500 x 1 000 000 000 bytes)
  • Disk Interface: Serial-ATA/300
  • Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 300 MB/seconds
  • Buffer Size: 16384 KB
  • Drive Ready Time (typical): 14.3 seconds
  • Width: 101.6 mm (4.00 inch)
  • Depth: 147 mm (5.79 inch)
  • Height: 26.1 mm (1.03 inch)
  • Weight: 440 grams (0.97 pounds)
  • Manufacturer: Western Digital Corporation

Western Digital WD5000AVCS Hard Drives:

WD5000AVCS Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5 Inch Hard Drive

  • WD5000AVCS-982DY1, DCM HANNT2CHB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000AVCS-982DY1, DCM HHNNKT2AGB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000AVCS-982DY1, DCM HHRNHT2AHB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000AVCS-982DY1, DCM HHNNHT2CGB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000AVCS-982DY1, DCM HHRNHT2CHB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000AVCS-982DY1, DCM HANNNT2CHB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000AVCS-612DY1, DCM HHNNNT2CHB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000AVCS-612DY1, DCM HANNNT2AHB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000AVCS-612DY1, DCM HGNNKT2CHB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000AVCS-612DY1, DCM HHRNKT2CHB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000AVCS-612DY1, DCM HARNKT2AHB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000AVCS-612DY1, DCM HGNNHT2CHB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000AVCS-612DY1, DCM HARNKT2CHB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000AVCS-612DY1, DCM HARNHT2AHB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000AVCS-632DY1, DCM DANNNT2CG, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000AVCS-612DY1, DCM HGRNHT2CHB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000AVCS-612DY1, DCM HARNHT2CHB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000AVCS-612DY1, DCM HGRNNT2CGB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000AVCS-632DY1, DCM HHRNHV2CH, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000AVCS-632DY1, DCM DHNNNT2AH, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000AVCS-632DY1, DCM HBRNHV2CH, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000AVCS-632DY1, DCM HARNHV2CH, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000AVCS-732DY1, DCM HARNHT2CG, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000AVCS-632DY1, DCM HARNHV2CE, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000AVCS-632DY1, DCM DARNHT2CH, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive

Western Digital WD5000AVCS 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 WD5000AVCS Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Western Digital WD5000AVCS 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:
2060-771640-003, etc.

Multiple Model Number revisions:
WD5000AVCS-982DY1, WD5000AVCS-612DY1, WD5000AVCS-732DY1, WD5000AVCS-632DY1, etc.