WD5000KS Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a SATA interface.
All information about the Western Digital WD5000KS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Western Digital WD5000KS Technical Details:
- Hard Disk Model: Western Digital WD5000KS
- Disk Family: Caviar SE16
- Form Factor: 3.5″
- Capacity: 500 GB (500 000 000 000 bytes)
- Number Of Disks: 4
- Number Of Heads: 8
- Rotational Speed: 7200 RPM
- Rotation Time: 8.33 ms
- Average Rotational Latency: 4.17 ms
- Disk Interface: SATA 3 Gb/s (SATA II)
- Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 300.0 MB/seconds
- Buffer Size: 16 MB
- Drive Ready Time (typical): 5.5 seconds
- Average Seek Time: 8.9 ms
- Track To Track Seek Time: 2.0 ms
- Width: 101.6 mm (4.00 inch)
- Depth: 147.0 mm (5.79 inch)
- Height: 26.1 mm (1.03 inch)
- Weight: 630 grams (1.39 pounds)
- Acoustic (Idle): 2.8 Bel
- Acoustic (Min performance and volume): 2.8 Bel
- Acoustic (Max performance and volume): 3.3 Bel
- Required Power For Spinup: 12V / 5V (Peak 2.1A)
- Power Required (Seek): 8.5 W
- Power Required (Idle): 6.0 W
- Power Required (Standby): 1.0 W
- Manufacturer: Western Digital Corporation
Western Digital WD5000KS Hard Drives:
- WD5000KS-00MNB0, DCM HBACAJAH, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000KS-00MNB0, DCM HBHCAJAHB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000KS-00MNB0, DCM HCHCAJAHB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000KS-00MNB0, DCM HBACAJAHB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000KS-60MNB0, DCM HCACAJAAB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000KS-00MNB0, DCM HBHCAJAA, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000KS-00MNB0, DCM HCACAJCH, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000KS-75MNB0, DCM HCHCAJAAB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000KS-00MNB0, DCM HCHCAJAAB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000KS-00MNB0, DCM HCACAJAHB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000KS-00MNB0, DCM HBACAJAAB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000KS-00MNB0, DCM HBHCAJAH, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000KS-75MNB0, DCM HCACAJAAB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000KS-00MNB0, DCM HBACAJAA, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000KS-00MNB0, DCM HCHCAJAA, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000KS-00MNB0, DCM HCACAJAAB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000KS-60MNB0, DCM HBACAJAHB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000KS-00MNB0, DCM HCHCAJAH, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000KS-00MNB0, DCM HCACAJAA, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000KS-00MNB0, DCM HBHCAJAAB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000KS-00MNB0, DCM HCACAJAH, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
Western Digital WD5000KS 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 WD5000KS Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Western Digital WD5000KS 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:
2060-701383-001, etc.
Multiple Model Number revisions:
WD5000KS-75MNB0, WD5000KS-60MNB0, WD5000KS-00MNB0, etc.