WD5000AZLX Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a SATA interface. WD5000AZLX-08K2TA0 Western Digital Blue 500GB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 32MB Cache 3.5-inch Hard Drive.
All information about the Western Digital WD5000AZLX hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Western Digital WD5000AZLX Technical Details:
- Hard Disk Model: WDC WD5000AZLX
- Disk Family: Caviar Blue
- Form Factor: 3.5″
- Capacity: 500 GB (500 x 1 000 000 000 bytes)
- 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: 32768 KB
- Width: 101.6 mm (4.00 inch)
- Depth: 147 mm (5.79 inch)
- Height: 25.4 mm (1.00 inch)
- Weight: 440 grams (0.97 pounds)
- Manufacturer: Western Digital Corporation
Western Digital WD5000AZLX Hard Drives:
- WD5000AZLX-75K2TA0, DCM HARNKT2CHB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000AZLX-08K2TA0, DCM HARNKT2CHB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000AZLX-08K2TA0, DCM HANNKT2CHB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000AZLX-60K2TA0, DCM HANNKT2CHB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000AZLX-00CL5A0, DCM HANNHT2CHB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000AZLX-00CL5A0, DCM EBRNKT2AHB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000AZLX-75K2TA0, DCM HBNNKT2CHB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000AZLX-60K2TA0, DCM HANNHT2CHB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000AZLX-00CL5A0, DCM DGRNKT2MH, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000AZLX-08K2TA0, DCM HARNNT2AHB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000AZLX-60K2TA0, DCM HANNKT2CH, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000AZLX-75K2TA0, DCM HHNNKT2CHB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000AZLX-00K4KA0, DCM EHRNKT2CG, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000AZLX-00K4KA0, DCM DARNHT2MHB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000AZLX-08K2TA0, DCM HHNNKT2CHB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000AZLX-60K2TA0, DCM EHRNKT2CHB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000AZLX-00CL5A0, DCM EHNNHT2AHB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000AZLX-00K4KA0, DCM EHRNHT2CH, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000AZLX-00CL5A0, DCM DHRMNT2CH, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000AZLX-00JKKA0, DCM HARNKT2CH, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000AZLX-00JKKA0, DCM HARNNT2CEB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000AZLX-00JKKA0, DCM HBNNHT2CHB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000AZLX-00CL5A0, DCM DHRNHT2MHB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000AZLX-08K2TA0, DCM HANNNT2CHB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000AZLX-00K4KA0, DCM EARNHT2CH, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
Western Digital WD5000AZLX 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 WD5000AZLX Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Western Digital WD5000AZLX 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:
2060-771829-004, 2060-771829-005, 2060-771824-006, 2060-800039-001, etc.
Multiple Model Number revisions:
WD5000AZLX-00ZR6A0, WD5000AZLX-08K2TA0, WD5000AZLX-60K2TA0, WD5000AZLX-00CL5A0, WD5000AZLX-00K4KA0, WD5000AZLX-00JKKA0, WD5000AZLX-75K2TA0, etc.