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-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.