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 Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.5 Inch Hard Drive

  • 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.