WD5002ABYS Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a SATA interface. WD5002ABYS-88B1B0 Western Digital RE3 500GB 7200RPM SATA 3Gb/s 16MB Cache 3.5-inch Hard Drive.
All information about the Western Digital WD5002ABYS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Western Digital WD5002ABYS Technical Details:
- Hard Disk Model: WDC WD5002ABYS
- Disk Family: RE3
- Form Factor: 3.5″
- Capacity: 500 GB (500 x 1 000 000 000 bytes)
- Number Of Disks: 2
- Number Of Heads: 4
- 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: 16384 KB
- Drive Ready Time (typical): 11 seconds
- Width: 101.6 mm (4.00 inch)
- Depth: 147 mm (5.79 inch)
- Height: 26.1 mm (1.03 inch)
- Weight: 630 grams (1.39 pounds)
- Acoustic (Idle): 2.8 Bel
- Acoustic (Min performance and volume): 2.9 Bel
- Acoustic (Max performance and volume): 3.3 Bel
- Required Power For Spinup: 1250 mA
- Power Required (Seek): 9.5 W
- Power Required (Idle): 8.75 W
- Power Required (Standby): 1.6 W
- Manufacturer: Western Digital Corporation
Western Digital WD5002ABYS Hard Drives:
- WD5002ABYS-01B1B0, DCM HANNHT2CB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5002ABYS-18B1B0, DCM HBNNNT2MBB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5002ABYS-01B1B0, DCM HARNHT2CAB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5002ABYS-02B1B0, DCM HGNNNT2MAB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5002ABYS-01B1B0, DCM HANNHTJMAB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5002ABYS-01B1B0, DCM HANNHVJMA, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5002ABYS-18B1B0, DCM DHNNHTJMBB, Dell 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5002ABYS-18B1B0, DCM HHRNNT2MHB, Dell 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5002ABYS-18B1B0, DCM HHRNNT2MBB, Dell 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5002ABYS-18B1B0, DCM HARNNT2MHB, Dell 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5002ABYS-18B1B0, DCM HANNNV2AB, Dell 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5002ABYS-01B1B0, DCM EHRNNT2CHB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5002ABYS-18B1B0, DCM HARNHV2CBB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5002ABYS-01B1B0, DCM HBRNHV2MHB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5002ABYS-01B1B0, DCM HBRNNV2MBB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5002ABYS-01B1B0, DCM EHRNNTJMAB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5002ABYS-01B1B0, DCM HHRNHT2CGB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5002ABYS-01B1B0, DCM HANNNT2CB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5002ABYS-01B1B0, DCM HARNHT2CA, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5002ABYS-01B1B0, DCM DGRNHV2CAB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5002ABYS-01B1B0, DCM HHRNHT2CHN, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5002ABYS-02B1B0, DCM EGRNHT2MG, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5002ABYS-02B1B0, DCM HHRNHT2MGB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5002ABYS-18B1B0, DCM DBNNNT2MGB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD5002ABYS-01B1B0, DCM HANNNT2CA, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
Western Digital WD5002ABYS 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 WD5002ABYS Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Western Digital WD5002ABYS 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:
2060-701537-004, etc.
Multiple Model Number revisions:
WD5002ABYS-70B1B0, WD5002ABYS-18B1B0, WD5002ABYS-02B1B0, WD5002ABYS-01B1B0, etc.