WD5002AALX Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a SATA interface. WD5002AALX-32Z3A0 Western Digital 500GB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 3.5-inch Hard Drive.
All information about the Western Digital WD5002AALX hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Western Digital WD5002AALX Technical Details:
- Hard Disk Model: WDC WD5002AALX
- 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/600
- Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 600 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 WD5002AALX Hard Drives:
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Western Digital WD5002AALX 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 WD5002AALX Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Western Digital WD5002AALX 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:
2060-771702-001, 2060-441640-003, 2060-771640-003, etc.
Multiple Model Number revisions:
WD5002AALX-32Z3A0, WD5002AALX-00J37A0, etc.