WD740GD Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 74.3GB and featuring a SATA interface. WD740GD Western Digital Raptor 74.3GB 10000RPM SATA 7-Pin 8MB Cache 3.5-inch Low Profile (1.0 inch) Hard Drive.
All information about the Western Digital WD740GD hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Western Digital WD740GD Technical Details:
- Manufacturer: Western Digital
- Manufacturer Website: www.wdc.com
- Manufacturer Part No: WD740GD-00FLA2
- Product Series or Family: Raptor
- Product Type: Internal Hard Drive
- Storage Capacity: 74GB
- Spindle Speed: 10000RPM
- Drive Interface: SATA 1.5Gbps
- Form Factor: 3.5Inch
- Cache: 8MB
Western Digital WD740GD Hard Drives:
- WD740GD-00FLC0, DCM HBCAJAB, Western Digital 74.3GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD740GD-00FLA1, DCM HBCAJAB, Western Digital 74.3GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD740GD-50FLA2, DCM HBCAJAB, Western Digital 74.3GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD740GD-75FLA1, DCM HBCAJAB, Western Digital 74GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD740GD-00FLA0, DCM HBCAJAB, Western Digital 74.3GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD740GD-50FLC0, DCM HBCAJAB, Western Digital 74.3GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD740GD-00NLR1, DCM HBCA2AB, Western Digital 74GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
Western Digital WD740GD 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 WD740GD Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Western Digital WD740GD 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:
2060-001213-004, 2060-701213-004, 2060-701384-002, etc.
Multiple Model Number revisions:
WD740GD-00FLC0, WD740GD-00FLA1, WD740GD-50FLA2, WD740GD-75FLA1, WD740GD-00FLA0, WD740GD-50FLC0, WD740GD-00NLR1, etc.