WD5001AALS Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a SATA interface. WD5001AALS-00WTA0 Western Digital 500GB 7200RPM SATA 3.5-inch Hard Drive.
All information about the Western Digital WD5001AALS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Western Digital WD5001AALS Technical Details:
- Hard Disk Model: WDC WD5001AALS
- Disk Family: Caviar Black
- Form Factor: 3.5″
- Capacity: 500 GB (500 x 1 000 000 000 bytes)
- Number Of Disks: 1
- Number Of Heads: 2
- Rotational Speed: 7200 RPM
- Rotation Time: 8.33 ms
- Average Rotational Latency: 4.17 ms
- Disk Interface: Serial-ATA/300
- Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 300 MB/seconds
- Buffer Size: 32768 KB
- Drive Ready Time (typical): 8.5 seconds
- Width: 101.6 mm (4.00 inch)
- Depth: 147 mm (5.79 inch)
- Height: 25.4 mm (1.00 inch)
- Weight: 440 grams (0.97 pounds)
- Acoustic (Idle): 2.5 Bel
- Acoustic (Min performance and volume): 2.6 Bel
- Acoustic (Max performance and volume): 2.9 Bel
- Required Power For Spinup: 1375 mA
- Power Required (Seek): 8.3 W
- Power Required (Idle): 7.7 W
- Power Required (Standby): 1.0 W
- Manufacturer: Western Digital Corporation
Western Digital WD5001AALS Hard Drives:
- WD5001AALS-00J7B0, DCM HANNHT2CA, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5001AALS-00L3B2, DCM HARNNT2MAN, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5001AALS-00L3B2, DCM HBNNNTJMB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5001AALS-00J7B1, DCM HARNHT2CB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5001AALS-00L3B2, DCM EBRNNT2MAB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5001AALS-00J7B1, DCM HBNNHT2CB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5001AALS-00L3B2, DCM EHNNHTJMH, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5001AALS-00L3B2, DCM EHNNNT2MA, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5001AALS-00J7B0, DCM HBNNNT2CB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5001AALS-00L3B2, DCM HHNNNT2MH, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5001AALS-00L3B2, DCM HBNNNT2CH, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5001AALS-00LWTA0, DCM HBRNHVJCB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5001AALS-00J7B1, DCM HARNNT2AB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5001AALS-00L3B2, DCM DHRNNT2MBB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5001AALS-00L3B2, DCM HGRNNT2MB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5001AALS-00L3B2, DCM EGNNHV2MGN, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5001AALS-00L3B2, DCM DANNHV2MA, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5001AALS-00L3B2, DCM DARNHT2MAB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5001AALS-00E3A0, DCM EARNNTJABB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5001AALS-00J7B1, DCM HANNHT2AB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5001AALS-00L3B2, DCM HANNNT2MGB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5001AALS-00L3B2, DCM EHNNNT2MAN, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5001AALS-00E3A0, DCM EARNHTJCAB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5001AALS-00F41A0, DCM HBRNHTJMGN, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5001AALS-00L3B2, DCM DHNNHT2MGN, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
Western Digital WD5001AALS 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 WD5001AALS Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Western Digital WD5001AALS 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:
2060-771590-001, 2060-701567-000, 2060-701590-001, 2060-701590-000, 2060-701622-000, 2060-771640-003, 2060-771640-002, 2060-771577-001, 2060-771702-001, 2060-701640-002, etc.
Multiple Model Number revisions:
WD5001AALS-00J7B0, WD5001AALS-00L3B2, WD5001AALS-00F41A0, WD5001AALS-00J7B1, WD5001AALS-00LWTA0, WD5001AALS-00E3A0, etc.