WD6400AVVS Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 640 GB and featuring a SATA interface. WD6400AVVS WD 3.5″ 640 GB Serial-ATA/300 AV-GP (VxS) 5400 RPM Hard Drive.

All information about the Western Digital WD6400AVVS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Western Digital WD6400AVVS Technical Details:

  • Hard Disk Model: WDC WD6400AVVS
  • Disk Family: AV-GP (VxS)
  • Form Factor: 3.5″
  • Capacity: 640 GB (640 x 1 000 000 000 bytes)
  • Number Of Disks: 2
  • Number Of Heads: 4
  • Rotational Speed: 5400 RPM
  • Rotation Time: 11.11 ms
  • Average Rotational Latency: 5.56 ms
  • Disk Interface: Serial-ATA/300
  • Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 300 MB/seconds
  • Buffer Size: 8192 KB
  • Drive Ready Time (typical): 11 seconds
  • Average Seek Time: 10.9 ms
  • Track To Track Seek Time: 2.0 ms
  • Full Stroke Seek Time: 21.0 ms
  • Width: 101.6 mm (3.98 inch)
  • Depth: 147 mm (5.79 inch)
  • Height: 25.4 mm (0.98 inch)
  • Weight: 630 grams (1.39 pounds)
  • Acoustic (Idle): 2.4 Bel
  • Acoustic (Min performance and volume): 2.5 Bel
  • Acoustic (Max performance and volume): 2.5 Bel
  • Required Power For Spinup: 920 W
  • Manufacturer: Western Digital Corporation

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  • Power Required (Seek): 6.0 W
  • Power Required (Idle): 3.3 W
  • Power Required (Standby): 0.97

    Western Digital WD6400AVVS Hard Drives:

    Western DigitalWD6400AVVS640 GBSATA3.5

    • WD6400AVVS WD 3.5″ 640 GB Serial-ATA/300 AV-GP (VxS) 5400 RPM Hard Drive.

    Western Digital WD6400AVVS 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 WD6400AVVS Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

    When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Western Digital WD6400AVVS hard drive experience is a burned circuit board (PCB). Therefore, if you need to replace the PCB, be sure to match the “PCB Number” of the current board, such as etc.