WD5000BEVT Western Digital 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a SATA interface. WD5000BEVT-16A0RT0 Western Digital 500GB 5400RPM SATA 3Gb/s 2.5-inch Hard Drive.

All information about the Western Digital WD5000BEVT hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Western Digital WD5000BEVT Technical Details:

  • Hard Disk Model: WDC WD5000BEVT
  • Disk Family: Scorpio Blue
  • Form Factor: 2.5″
  • Capacity: 500 GB (500 x 1 000 000 000 bytes)
  • Number Of Disks: 2
  • Number Of Heads: 4
  • Rotational Speed: 5400 RPM
  • Rotation Time: 11.11 ms
  • Average Rotational Latency: 5.56 ms
  • Disk Interface: Serial-ATA/300
  • Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 300 MB/seconds
  • Buffer Size: 8192 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: 100 grams (0.22 pounds)
  • Acoustic (Idle): 2.4 Bel
  • Acoustic (Min performance and volume): 2.6 Bel
  • Acoustic (Max performance and volume): 2.6 Bel
  • Required Power For Spinup: 500 mA
  • Power Required (Seek): 2.5 W
  • Power Required (Idle): 2.0 W
  • Power Required (Standby): 0.25 W
  • Manufacturer: Western Digital Corporation

Western Digital WD5000BEVT Hard Drives:

WD5000BEVT Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5 Inch Hard Drive

  • WD5000BEVT-22ZAT0, DCM HHCVJHBB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000BEVT-00ZAT0, DCM HBCVJBBB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000BEVT-60ZAT0, DCM HBCVJHBB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000BEVT-75ZAT0, DCM HHCVJHBB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000BEVT-22ZAT0, DCM HBCVJHBB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000BEVT-35A0RT0, DCM HBNTJBB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000BEVT-22A0RT0, DCM HBCVJAB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000BEVT-22ZAT0, DCM HHCVJHNB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000BEVT-22ZAT0, DCM HBCVJBBB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000BEVT-22A0RT0, DCM HACTJBB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000BEVT-35ZAT0, DCM HHCVJBBB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000BEVT-35ZAT0, DCM HHCVJHBB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000BEVT-22ZAT0, DCM HHCVJBBB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000BEVT-60ZAT0, DCM HBCVJBBB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000BEVT-00A03T0, DCM HBCVJBBB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000BEVT-00A03T0, DCM HHCVJHBB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000BEVT-75A0RT0, DCM HHNTJHB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000BEVT-16ZAT0, DCM HHCVJHBB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000BEVT-75A0RT0, DCM HBNTJBBB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000BEVT-75A0RT0, DCM HBNTJHB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000BEVT-75ZAT0, DCM HBCVJBBB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000BEVT-60ZAT1, DCM HBCVJHBB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000BEVT-11ZAT0, DCM HBCVJBBB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000BEVT-22A0RT0, DCM HBNTJHB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000BEVT-60A0RT0, DCM EHOTJBB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive

Western Digital WD5000BEVT 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 WD5000BEVT Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Western Digital WD5000BEVT 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:
2060-771714-002, 2060-701672-001, 2060-771672-004, 2060-701609-000, 2060-771872-004, 2060-701572-002, 2060-771672-001, etc.

Multiple Model Number revisions:
WD5000BEVT-22ZAT0, WD5000BEVT-26ZAT0, WD5000BEVT-00A03T0, WD5000BEVT-80A0RT1, WD5000BEVT, WD5000BEVT-16ZAT0, WD5000BEVT-00SCST0, WD5000BEVT-08A0RT1, WD5000BEVT-55A0RT0, WD5000BEVT-26A0RT0, WD5000BEVT-60ZAT0, WD5000BEVT-60ZAT1, WD5000BEVT-00A0RT0, WD5000BEVT-60A0RT0, WD5000BEVT-75A0RT0, WD5000BEVT-22A0RT0, WD5000BEVT-16A0RT0, WD5000BEVT-00A05T0, WD5000BEVT-24A0RT0, WD5000BEVT-00ZAT0, WD5000BEVT-35ZAT0, WD5000BEVT-11ZAT0, WD5000BEVT-35A0RT0, WD5000BEVT-11A03T0, WD5000BEVT-75ZAT0, WD5000BEVT-80A0RT0, etc.