WD5000AZDX Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500 GB and featuring a SATA interface. WD5000AZDX WD 3.5″ 500 GB Serial-ATA/600 Caviar Green Hard Drive.
All information about the Western Digital WD5000AZDX hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Western Digital WD5000AZDX Technical Details:
- Hard Disk Model: WDC WD5000AZDX
- Disk Family: Caviar Green
- Form Factor: 3.5″
- Capacity: 500 GB (500 x 1 000 000 000 bytes)
- Disk Interface: Serial-ATA/600
- Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 600 MB/seconds
- Buffer Size: 32768 KB
- Width: 101.6 mm (3.98 inch)
- Depth: 147 mm (5.79 inch)
- Height: 26.1 mm (1.02 inch)
- Weight: 450 grams (0.99 pounds)
- Acoustic (Idle): 2.1 Bel
- Acoustic (Min performance and volume): 2.2 Bel
- Acoustic (Max performance and volume): 2.2 Bel
- Required Power For Spinup: 1100 mA
- Power Required (Seek): 3.7 W
- Power Required (Idle): 2.1 W
- Power Required (Standby): 0.4 W
- Manufacturer: Western Digital Corporation
Western Digital WD5000AZDX Hard Drives:
- WD5000AZDX WD 3.5″ 500 GB Serial-ATA/600 Caviar Green Hard Drive.
Western Digital WD5000AZDX 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 WD5000AZDX Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Western Digital WD5000AZDX hard drive experience is a burned circuit board (PCB). Therefore, if you need to replace the PCB, be sure to match the “PCB Number” of the current board, such as 2060-771824-005, etc.