WD5000BMVU Western Digital 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a USB interface. WD5000BMVU Western Digital 500GB 5400RPM USB 2.0 2.5-inch Hard Disk Drive.
All information about the Western Digital WD5000BMVU hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Western Digital WD5000BMVU Technical Details:
Western Digital WD5000BMVU Hard Drives:
- WD5000BMVU-11A08S0, DCM HHCVJBBB, Western Digital 500GB USB 2.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000BMVU-11A08S0, DCM HBCVJHBB, Western Digital 500GB USB 2.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000BMVU-11A08S0, DCM HBCVJBBB, Western Digital 500GB USB 2.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000BMVU-11A08S0, DCM HHCVJHBB, Western Digital 500GB USB 2.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000BMVU-11A08S0, DCM HBCVJBB, Western Digital 500GB USB 2.5″ Hard Drive
Western Digital WD5000BMVU 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 WD5000BMVU Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Western Digital WD5000BMVU 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:
2061-701635-001, 2060-701635-001, etc.
Multiple Model Number revisions:
WD5000BMVU-11A08S0, etc.