WD5000LUCT Western Digital 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a SATA interface. WD5000LUCT Western Digital Av-25 500GB 5400RPM SATA 3GB/s 16MB Cache 2.5-inch Hard Drive.

All information about the Western Digital WD5000LUCT hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Western Digital WD5000LUCT Technical Details:

  • Hard Disk Model: WDC WD5000LUCT
  • Disk Family: AV-25
  • Form Factor: 2.5″
  • Capacity: 500 GB (500 x 1 000 000 000 bytes)
  • Rotational Speed: 5400 RPM
  • Rotation Time: 11.11 ms
  • Average Rotational Latency: 5.56 ms
  • Disk Interface: Serial-ATA/300
  • Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 300 MB/seconds
  • Buffer Size: 16384 KB
  • Width: 69.85 mm (2.75 inch)
  • Depth: 100.2 mm (3.94 inch)
  • Height: 6.8 mm (0.27 inch)
  • Weight: 92 grams (0.20 pounds)
  • Manufacturer: Western Digital Corporation

Western Digital WD5000LUCT Hard Drives:

WD5000LUCT Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5 Inch Hard Drive

  • WD5000LUCT-61C26Y0, DCM HAKTJAB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000LUCT-63Y8HY0, DCM HVCVJVN, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000LUCT-63C26Y0, DCM HVKTJBB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000LUCT-63RC2Y0, DCM HAKT2AB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000LUCT-63Y8HY0, DCM HVCVJVK, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000LUCT-61C26Y0, DCM EAKT2AK, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000LUCT-61C26Y0, DCM HAMT2BB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000LUCT-63C26Y0, DCM EBKT2BK, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000LUCT-63C26Y0, DCM HAKTJHK, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000LUCT-61C26Y0, DCM HHMTJAN, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000LUCT-61C26Y0, DCM HAMTJAB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD5000LUCT-61C26Y0, DCM HAKTJHB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive

Western Digital WD5000LUCT 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 WD5000LUCT Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Western Digital WD5000LUCT 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:
2060-800025-001, 2060-771852-001, 2060-771959-000, etc.

Multiple Model Number revisions:
WD5000LUCT-63RC2Y0, WD5000LUCT-63Y8HY0, WD5000LUCT-63C26Y0, WD5000LUCT-61C26Y0, etc.