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:
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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.