WD5000M21K Western Digital 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a SATA interface. WD5000M21K Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive.

All information about the Western Digital WD5000M21K hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Western Digital WD5000M21K Technical Details:

Western Digital WD5000M21K Hard Drives:

WD5000M21K Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5 Inch Hard Drive

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Western Digital WD5000M21K 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 WD5000M21K Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Western Digital WD5000M21K 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:
2060-771941-003, etc.

Multiple Model Number revisions:
WD5000M21K-60JU6T0, etc.