WD8001FFWX Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 8TB and featuring a SATA interface. WD8001FFWX Western Digital 8TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 128MB Cache 3.5-inch Hard Drive.

All information about the Western Digital WD8001FFWX hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Western Digital WD8001FFWX Technical Details:

• Manufacturer: Western Digital
• Manufacturer Part No: WD8001FFWX
• Product Series or Family: WD Red Pro
• Product Type: Internal Hard Drive
• Storage Capacity: 8TB
• Spindle Speed: 7200RPM
• Drive Interface: SATA 6.0Gbps
• Form Factor: 3.5Inch
• Cache: 128MB
  

  Western Digital WD8001FFWX Hard Drives:

  

  • WD8001FFWX-68J1UN0, PN 2W10107, Western Digital 8TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive

  Western Digital WD8001FFWX 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 WD8001FFWX Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

  When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Western Digital WD8001FFWX 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:
  0A90439, etc.

  Multiple Model Number revisions:
  WD8001FFWX-68J1UN0, etc.