WD5000M22K Western Digital 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a SATA interface.
All information about the Western Digital WD5000M22K hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Western Digital WD5000M22K Technical Details:
- Hard Disk Model: WD5000M22K
- Disk Family: WD Black UltraSlim SSHD (Solid State Hybrid Drive)
- Form Factor: 2.5″ (UltraSlim 5mm)
- Capacity: 500 GB (500,000,000,000 bytes)
- Rotational Speed: 5400 RPM
- Rotation Time: 8.33 ms
- Average Rotational Latency: 4.17 ms
- Disk Interface: SFF-8784 SATA Express
- Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 600 MB/second
- Buffer Size: 16 MB
- SSD Cache Storage: 16 GB MLC NAND Flash
- Number of Disks (Platters): 1
- Number of Heads: 2
- Width: 69.85 mm (2.75 inch)
- Depth: 100.35 mm (3.95 inch)
- Height: 5.0 mm (0.20 inch)
- Weight: 74 grams (0.16 pounds)
- Manufacturer: Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
Western Digital WD5000M22K Hard Drives:
- WD5000M22K-24Z1LT0, DCM HVVJBBC, Western Digital 500GB MSATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
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- WD5000M22K-60Z1LT0, DCM HVVJBHC, Western Digital 500GB MSATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000M22K-24Z1LT0, DCM HBVJBHC, Western Digital 500GB MSATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000M22K-24Z1LT0, DCM HVVJKVC, Western Digital 500GB MSATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000M22K-24Z1LT0, DCM HHVJBBC, Western Digital 500GB MSATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000M22K-24Z1LT0, DCM HBVJBVC, Western Digital 500GB MSATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5000M22K-24Z1LT0, DCM HBVJBBC, Western Digital 500GB MSATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
Western Digital WD5000M22K 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 WD5000M22K Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Western Digital WD5000M22K 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, 771941-003, etc.
Multiple Model Number revisions:
WD5000M22K-60Z1LT0, WD5000M22K-24Z1LT0, etc.