WD800BB Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 80GB and featuring a IDE interface. WD800BB-75CAA1 Western Digital 80GB 7200RPM ATA-100 3.5-inch Hard Drive.

All information about the Western Digital WD800BB hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Western Digital WD800BB Technical Details:

• Hard Disk Model: WDC WD800BB
• Disk Family: Caviar
• Form Factor: 3.5″
• Capacity: 80 GB (80 x 1 000 000 000 bytes)
• Number Of Disks: 1
• Number Of Heads: 2
• Rotational Speed: 7200 RPM
• Rotation Time: 8.33 ms
• Average Rotational Latency: 4.17 ms
• Disk Interface: Ultra-ATA/100
• Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 100 MB/seconds
• Buffer Size: 2048 KB
• Drive Ready Time (typical): 7 seconds
• Average Seek Time: 8.9 ms
• Track To Track Seek Time: 2 ms
• Full Stroke Seek Time: 21 ms
• Width: 101.6 mm (4.00 inch)
• Depth: 147 mm (5.79 inch)
• Height: 25.4 mm (1.00 inch)
• Acoustic (Idle): 3.0 Bel
• Acoustic (Min performance and volume): 3.1 Bel
• Acoustic (Max performance and volume): 3.2 Bel
• Required Power For Spinup: 1150 mA
• Power Required (Seek): 8.0 W
• Power Required (Idle): 7.25 W
• Power Required (Standby): 1.2 W
• Manufacturer: Western Digital Corporation

Western Digital WD800BB Hard Drives:

• WD800BB-75CAA0, DCM HSEHNA2AH, Western Digital 80GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• WD800BB-75CAA0, DCM HSEHNA2AA, Western Digital 80GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• WD800BB-23FRA0, DCM HSBHCTJCH, Western Digital 80GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• WD800BB-22FJA0, DCM ESBANTJAH, Western Digital 80GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• WD800BB-75DKA0, DCM HSBACVJAA, Western Digital 80GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• WD800BB-00FRA0, DCM HSBHCVJAH, Western Digital 80GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• WD800BB-75FJA1, DCM HSBACTJCH, Western Digital 80GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• WD800BB-00JHC0, DCM DSCHYTJEA, Western Digital 80GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• WD800BB-00JHC0, DCM DSCHNTJAHN, Western Digital 80GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• WD800BB-00CJA1, DCM HSEHNA2CH, Western Digital 80GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• WD800BB-53BSA0, DCM RSBHBT2AH, Western Digital 80GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• WD800BB-75JHA0, DCM DSBHCTJCH, Western Digital 80GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• WD800BB-53CAA1, DCM HSFHNA2AA, Western Digital 80GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• WD800BB-00CAA1, DCM HSEHNT2AH, Western Digital 80GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• WD800BB-75JHC0, DCM HSBHYTJCH, Western Digital 80GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• WD800BB-53CCB0, DCM RREABH2AA, Western Digital 80GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• WD800BB-00BSA0, DCM RRBHHA2AH, Western Digital 80GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• WD800BB-63JKC0, DCM HSCACTJCHN, Western Digital 80GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• WD800BB-63JKC0, DCM HSBHNTJEHN, Western Digital 80GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• WD800BB-75FRA0, DCM FSBHCVJAH, Western Digital 80GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• WD800BB-63JKC0, DCM HSBAYTJEHN, Western Digital 80GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• WD800BB-63JKC0, DCM HSBANTJEAN, Western Digital 80GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• WD800BB-63JKC0, DCM DSCHCTJEHN, Western Digital 80GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• WD800BB-23FJA0, DCM ESBBCTJAA, Western Digital 80GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• WD800BB-32BSA0, DCM DSBHBT2CH, Western Digital 80GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive

Western Digital WD800BB 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 WD800BB Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Western Digital WD800BB 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:
2060-001128-005, 2060-001292-000, 2060-701292-000, 2060-001130-012, 2060-701292-002, 2060-001159-006, 2060-001092-007, 2060-001062-004, 2060-001092-006, 2060-001292-001, etc.

Multiple Model Number revisions:
WD800BB-75DKA0, WD800BB-40JHC0, WD800BB-53BSA0, WD800BB-53CCB0, WD800BB-23FJA0, WD800BB-60JKA0, WD800BB-40BSA0, WD800BB-08JHC0, WD800BB-75JHC0, WD800BB-18CAA0, WD800BB-00CJA1, WD800BB-23FRA0, WD800BB-00JHC0, WD800BB-32DKA0, WD800BB-23JHC0, WD800BB-55JKC0, WD800BB-00DAA3, WD800BB-23CAA1, WD800BB-53DKA0, WD800BB-00JKC0, WD800BB-75CAA0, WD800BB-22HEA1, WD800BB-00CAA1, WD800BB-75FJA1, WD800BB-22FJA1, WD800BB-22FJA0, WD800BB-75FRA0, WD800BB-22DKA0, WD800BB-55JKA0, WD800BB-32FRA0, WD800BB-55JHC0, WD800BB-60JKC0, WD800BB-75JHA0, WD800BB-63JKC0, WD800BB-53CAA1, WD800BB-00FRA0, WD800BB-60CJA1, WD800BB-23JHA1, WD800BB-00CAA0, WD800BB-32BSA0, WD800BB-00BSA0, WD800BB-60CCB0, WD800BB-22JHA0, etc.