WD5000BEKT Western Digital 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a SATA interface. WD5000BEKT-06 Western Digital 500GB 7200RPM SATA 3Gb/s 2.5-inch Hard Drive.
All information about the Western Digital WD5000BEKT hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Western Digital WD5000BEKT Technical Details:
- Hard Disk Model: WDC WD5000BEKT
- Disk Family: Scorpio Black
- Form Factor: 2.5″
- Capacity: 500 GB (500 x 1 000 000 000 bytes)
- Number Of Disks: 2
- Number Of Heads: 4
- Rotational Speed: 7200 RPM
- Rotation Time: 8.33 ms
- Average Rotational Latency: 4.17 ms
- Disk Interface: Serial-ATA/300
- Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 300 MB/seconds
- Buffer Size: 16384 KB
- Drive Ready Time (typical): 4 seconds
- Average Seek Time: 12 ms
- Track To Track Seek Time: 2 ms
- Width: 69.85 mm (2.75 inch)
- Depth: 100.2 mm (3.94 inch)
- Height: 9.5 mm (0.37 inch)
- Weight: 111 grams (0.24 pounds)
- Acoustic (Idle): 2.8 Bel
- Acoustic (Min performance and volume): 2.8 Bel
- Acoustic (Max performance and volume): 2.8 Bel
- Required Power For Spinup: 1150 mA
- Power Required (Seek): 1.75 W
- Power Required (Idle): 0.80 W
- Power Required (Standby): 0.20 W
- Manufacturer: Western Digital Corporation
Western Digital WD5000BEKT Hard Drives:
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- WD5000BEKT-60KA9T0, DCM HHCTJABB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000BEKT-00KA9T0, DCM HBNTJBBB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
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- WD5000BEKT-80KA9T0, DCM HHNTJANB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000BEKT-00KA9T0, DCM HHNTJABB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000BEKT-00KA9T0, DCM HHCTJABB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000BEKT-00KA9T0, DCM HBCTJABB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
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- WD5000BEKT-00KA9T0, DCM EBNTJABB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- Western Digital WD5000BEKT, 7200RPM, 3.0Gp/s, 500GB SATA 2.5″ HDD
- WD5000BEKT-75KA9T0, DCM EANTJABB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000BEKT-60KA9T0, DCM HANTJABB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000BEKT-75KA9T0, DCM HANTJABB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000BEKT-75KA9T0, DCM HACTJABB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000BEKT-60KA9T0, DCM HBCTJBBB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000BEKT-60KA9T0, DCM HBNTJANB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000BEKT-60KA9T0, DCM HACTJAB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000BEKT-75KA9T0, DCM HACTJANB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000BEKT-00KA9T0, DCM EBNTJAB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000BEKT-60KA9T0, DCM HANTJBBB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000BEKT-60KA9T0, DCM HACTJABB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000BEKT-60KA9T0, DCM HBCTJABB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
Western Digital WD5000BEKT 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 WD5000BEKT Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Western Digital WD5000BEKT 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:
2060-771714-000, 2060-771714-002, etc.
Multiple Model Number revisions:
WD5000BEKT, WD5000BEKT-80KA9T0, WD5000BEKT-00KA9T0, WD5000BEKT-75KA9T0, WD5000BEKT-60KA9T0, etc.