WD5000MPCK Western Digital 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a USB interface. WD5000MPCK Western Digital Blue 500GB 5400RPM SATA 6Gbps 16MB Cache 2.5-inch Internal Hard Drive.

All information about the Western Digital WD5000MPCK hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Western Digital WD5000MPCK Technical Details:

  • Hard Disk Model: WDC WD5000MPCK
  • Disk Family: Scorpio Blue
  • 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/600
  • Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 600 MB/seconds
  • Buffer Size: 16384 KB
  • Drive Ready Time (typical): 2.8 seconds
  • Width: 69.85 mm (2.75 inch)
  • Depth: 100.3 mm (3.95 inch)
  • Height: 5 mm (0.20 inch)
  • Weight: 70 grams (0.15 pounds)
  • Acoustic (Idle): 1.5 Bel
  • Acoustic (Min performance and volume): 1.7 Bel
  • Acoustic (Max performance and volume): 1.7 Bel
  • Required Power For Spinup: 900 mA
  • Power Required (Seek): 1.5 W
  • Power Required (Idle): 0.55 W
  • Power Required (Standby): 0.15 W
  • Manufacturer: Western Digital Corporation

Western Digital WD5000MPCK Hard Drives:

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Western Digital WD5000MPCK 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 WD5000MPCK Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Western Digital WD5000MPCK 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:
2060-771939-003, etc.

Multiple Model Number revisions:
WD5000MPCK-24AWHT0, etc.