WD50EZRZ Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 5TB and featuring a SATA interface. WD50EZRZ Western Digital Blue 5TB 5400RPM SATA 6GB/s 64MB Buffer 3.5-inch Internal Desktop Hard Drive.

All information about the Western Digital WD50EZRZ hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Western Digital WD50EZRZ Technical Details:

  • Hard Disk Model: WDC WD50EZRZ
  • Disk Family: Caviar Blue
  • Form Factor: 3.5″
  • Capacity: 5 TB (5 x 1 000 000 000 000 bytes)
  • Disk Interface: Serial-ATA/600
  • Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 600 MB/seconds
  • Buffer Size: 65536 KB
  • Width: 101.6 mm (4.00 inch)
  • Depth: 147 mm (5.79 inch)
  • Height: 26.1 mm (1.03 inch)
  • Weight: 750 grams (1.65 pounds)
  • Manufacturer: Western Digital Corporation

Western Digital WD50EZRZ Hard Drives:

WD50EZRZ Western Digital 5TB SATA 3.5 Inch Hard Drive

  • WD50EZRZ-00RWYB1, DCM EANCKTJMBB, Western Digital 5TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD50EZRZ-32GZ5B1, DCM HARCKVJAA, Western Digital 5TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD50EZRZ-32GZ5B1, DCM HARNKVJMA, Western Digital 5TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive

Western Digital WD50EZRZ 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 WD50EZRZ Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Western Digital WD50EZRZ 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:
2060-800001-002, 2060-800001-005, etc.

Multiple Model Number revisions:
WD50EZRZ-00RWYB1, WD50EZRZ-32GZ5B1, etc.