WD5000BMVV Western Digital 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a USB interface. WD5000BMVV Western Digital 500GB 5400RPM USB 2.5-inch Hard Disk Drive.

All information about the Western Digital WD5000BMVV hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Western Digital WD5000BMVV Technical Details:

  • Hard Disk Model: WDC WD5000BMVV
  • 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: USB 2.0
  • Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 60 MB/seconds
  • Buffer Size: 8192 KB
  • 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 WD5000BMVV Hard Drives:

WD5000BMVV Western Digital 500GB USB 2.5 Inch Hard Drive

  • WD5000BMVV-11A1CS0, DCM HBBTJBBB, Western Digital 500GB USB 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000BMVV-11A1CS0, DCM HHCTJHBB, Western Digital 500GB USB 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000BMVV-11GNWS0, DCM HANTJVB, Western Digital 500GB USB 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000BMVV-11SXZS2, DCM HAOTJVB, Western Digital 500GB USB 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000BMVV-11A1CS0, DCM HABTJABB, Western Digital 500GB USB 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000BMVV-11SXZS1, DCM HBCTJHB, Western Digital 500GB USB 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000BMVV-11SXZS1, DCM HACTJHB, Western Digital 500GB USB 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000BMVV-11SXZS1, DCM HB0TJBBN, Western Digital 500GB USB 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000BMVV-11A1CS0, DCM EACT2VBB, Western Digital 500GB USB 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000BMVV-11GNWS0, DCM HBNVJBB, Western Digital 500GB USB 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000BMVV-11SXZS1, DCM EAOTJHB, Western Digital 500GB USB 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000BMVV-11SXZS1, DCM HACTJAB, Western Digital 500GB USB 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000BMVV-11SXZS1, DCM HAOTJAB, Western Digital 500GB USB 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000BMVV-11GNWS0, DCM HACTJAB, Western Digital 500GB USB 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000BMVV-11GNWS0, DCM EANTJBN, Western Digital 500GB USB 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000BMVV-11GNWS0, DCM DBNTJBBN, Western Digital 500GB USB 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000BMVV-11A1CS0, DCM HACTJBBB, Western Digital 500GB USB 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000BMVV-11A1CS0, DCM EBBTJBBB, Western Digital 500GB USB 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000BMVV-11SXZS1, DCM HAOTJHN, Western Digital 500GB USB 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000BMVV-11SXZS1, DCM HBOTJVB, Western Digital 500GB USB 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000BMVV-11SXZS1, DCM EAOT2HB, Western Digital 500GB USB 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000BMVV-11A1CS0, DCM HABTJHBB, Western Digital 500GB USB 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000BMVV-11SXZS1, DCM HHOTJVB, Western Digital 500GB USB 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000BMVV-11GNWS0, DCM HBBTJBBB, Western Digital 500GB USB 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000BMVV-11GNWS0, DCM HANTJVN, Western Digital 500GB USB 2.5″ Hard Drive

Western Digital WD5000BMVV 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 WD5000BMVV Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Western Digital WD5000BMVV 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:
2060-771814-001, 2060-701875-001, 2060-701675-004, etc.

Multiple Model Number revisions:
WD5000BUCT-63LS5Y1, WD5000BMVV-11SXZS2, WD5000BMVV-11SXZS1, WD5000BMVV-11A1CS0, WD5000BMVV-11GNWS0, etc.