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
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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.