WDAC21600 Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 1.6GB and featuring a IDE interface. WDAC21600 Western Digital Caviar 1.6GB 5200RPM ATA-33 128KB Cache 3.5-inch Hard Disk Drive.
All information about the Western Digital WDAC21600 hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Western Digital WDAC21600 Technical Details:
- Manufacturer: Western Digital
- Manufacturer Website: www.wdc.com
- Manufacturer Part No: WDAC21600-00H
- Product Series or Family: Caviar
- Product Type: Internal Hard Drive
- Storage Capacity: 1.6GB
- Drive Interface: IDE
- Form Factor: 3.5Inch
Western Digital WDAC21600 Hard Drives:
- WDAC21600-32H, DCM CLBFTGP, Western Digital 1.6GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WDAC21600-00H, DCM CDABEMH, Western Digital 1.6GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
Western Digital WDAC21600 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 WDAC21600 Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Western Digital WDAC21600 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:
60-600621-004, etc.
Multiple Model Number revisions:
WDAC21600-32H, WDAC21600-00H, etc.