WD5000LPLX Western Digital 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a SATA interface. WD5000LPLX Western Digital Black 500GB 7200RPM SATA 6GB/s 32MB Cache 2.5-inch Internal Hard Drive.
All information about the Western Digital WD5000LPLX hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Western Digital WD5000LPLX Technical Details:
- Hard Disk Model: WDC WD5000LPLX
- Disk Family: Scorpio Black
- Form Factor: 2.5″
- Capacity: 500 GB (500 x 1 000 000 000 bytes)
- Rotational Speed: 7200 RPM
- Rotation Time: 8.33 ms
- Average Rotational Latency: 4.17 ms
- Disk Interface: Serial-ATA/600
- Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 600 MB/seconds
- Buffer Size: 32768 KB
- Drive Ready Time (typical): 3.8 seconds
- Width: 69.85 mm (2.75 inch)
- Depth: 100.2 mm (3.94 inch)
- Height: 7 mm (0.28 inch)
- Weight: 92 grams (0.20 pounds)
- Manufacturer: Western Digital Corporation
Western Digital WD5000LPLX Hard Drives:
- WD5000LPLX-75ZNTT0, DCM HANTJAB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000LPLX-60ZNTT1, DCM HBOTJBK, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000LPLX-00ZNTT0, DCM HAOTJVK, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000LPLX-00ZNTT0, DCM HAOTJBK, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000LPLX-75ZNTT0, DCM , Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000LPLX-75ZNTT0, DCM EHNTJHK, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000LPLX-60ZNTT1, DCM HBNT2BB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000LPLX-00ZNTT0, DCM HAOT2AK, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000LPLX-75ZNTT0, DCM HAOTJAK, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000LPLX-00ZNTT0, DCM HHOT2HN, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000LPLX-00ZNTT0, DCM HHOT2AB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000LPLX-22ZNTT0, DCM EBOTJHB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000LPLX-75ZNTT0, DCM HHNTJAB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000LPLX-75ZNTT0, DCM HANTJAN, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000LPLX-75ZNTT0, DCM HANTJAK, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000LPLX-00ZNTT0, DCM HVOTJBK, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000LPLX-75ZNTT0, DCM EHOTJAK, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000LPLX-75ZNTT0, DCM HBOTJBK, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000LPLX-75ZNTT0, DCM HHNTJHK, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000LPLX-75ZNTT0, DCM EBOTJBK, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000LPLX-75ZNTT0, DCM EBOTJVK, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000LPLX-08ZNTT0, DCM HAOT2AK, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000LPLX-60ZNTT1, DCM EVOTJVK, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000LPLX-60ZNTT1, DCM HHOTJHK, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000LPLX-66ZNTT0, DCM HHOTJAK, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
Western Digital WD5000LPLX 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 WD5000LPLX Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Western Digital WD5000LPLX 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:
2060-800018-001, etc.
Multiple Model Number revisions:
WD5000LPLX-22ZNTT0, WD5000LPLX-75ZNTT0, WD5000LPLX-66ZNTT0, WD5000LPLX-00ZNTT0, WD5000LPLX-60ZNTT1, WD5000LPLX-08ZNTT0, WD5000LPLX-60ZNTT0, etc.