WD5000LMCW Western Digital 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a USB interface.
All information about the Western Digital WD5000LMCW hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Western Digital WD5000LMCW Technical Details:
- Hard Disk Model: WD5000LMCW
- Disk Family: WD Blue Mobile (External Series / Hubba Family)
- Form Factor: 2.5″
- Capacity: 500 GB (500,000,000,000 bytes)
- Rotational Speed: 5400 RPM
- Rotation Time: 11.11 ms
- Average Rotational Latency: 5.56 ms
- Disk Interface: USB 3.0 (Native USB PCB)
- Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 500 MB/second
- Buffer Size: 64 MB
- Number of Disks (Platters): 1
- Number of Heads: 2
- Width: 69.85 mm (2.75 inch)
- Depth: 100.2 mm (3.94 inch)
- Height: 7.0 mm (0.28 inch)
- Weight: 90 grams (0.20 pounds)
- Manufacturer: Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
Western Digital WD5000LMCW Hard Drives:
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- WD5000LMCW-11T31S1, DCM HAOTJAB, Western Digital 500GB USB 2.5″ Hard Drive
Western Digital WD5000LMCW 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 WD5000LMCW Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Western Digital WD5000LMCW 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:
2060-800038-000, etc.
Multiple Model Number revisions:
WD5000LMCW-11T31S3, WD5000LMCW-11T31S1, etc.