WD7500AZEX Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 750GB and featuring a SATA interface. WD7500AZEX Western Digital Caviar Blue 750GB 7200RPM SATA 6GB/s 64MB Cache 3.5-inch Low Profile (1 inch) Hard Drive.
All information about the Western Digital WD7500AZEX hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Western Digital WD7500AZEX Technical Details:
- Hard Disk Model: WDC WD7500AZEX
- Disk Family: Caviar Blue
- Form Factor: 3.5″
- Capacity: 750 GB (750 x 1 000 000 000 bytes)
- Rotational Speed: 7200 RPM
- Rotation Time: 8.33 ms
- Average Rotational Latency: 4.17 ms
- 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: 25.4 mm (1.00 inch)
- Weight: 440 grams (0.97 pounds)
- Manufacturer: Western Digital Corporation
Western Digital WD7500AZEX Hard Drives:
- WD7500AZEX-00RKKA0, DCM EGNNHV2CG, Western Digital 750GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD7500AZEX-00RKKA0, DCM EGRNHT2CHB, Western Digital 750GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD7500AZEX-00RKKA0, DCM EARNKT2MHB, Western Digital 750GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD7500AZEX-00BN5A0, DCM EBRNHT2CG, Western Digital 750GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD7500AZEX-00RKKA0, DCM EANNHT2CHB, Western Digital 750GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD7500AZEX-00RKKA0, DCM EARNHT2MGB, Western Digital 750GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD7500AZEX-00ZF5A0, DCM EBNNNV2MHB, Western Digital 750GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD7500AZEX-00RKKA0, DCM EGNNKT2MHB, Western Digital 750GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
Western Digital WD7500AZEX 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 WD7500AZEX Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Western Digital WD7500AZEX 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:
2060-771829-004, 2060-771824-006, etc.
Multiple Model Number revisions:
WD7500AZEX-00BN5A0, WD7500AZEX-00ZF5A0, WD7500AZEX-00RKKA0, etc.