Western Digital WD2000JBRTL Data Recovery

We perform hard drive recovery for the WD Caviar WD2000JB Special Edition – Hard drive – 200 GB – internal – 3.5" – ATA-100 – 7200 rpm – buffer: 8 MB. You can see our up-to-date data recovery price-list here.

Western Digital WD2000JBRTL

Issues Specific to Western Digital WD2000JBRTL

There are no data recovery issues unique to Western Digital WD2000JBRTL, but check below for problems specific to Western Digital and issues that can appear on all mechanical hard drives. Users rated this hard drive at 4 marks out of 5.

Typical Western Digital Hard Drive Issues

Western Digital manufacture a vast volume of hard drives, which are typically extremely reliable. You should note that all hard drives will fail at some point, whether by wear and tear, accidental damage, or some systematic issue due to unique or family-wide errors in firmware or hard drive assembly.

Western Digital drives generally fail due to issues common to all hard drives:

Issues Common to All Hard Drives

All hard drives with spinningplatters are prone to the following problems:

damaged read-heads

weakly magnetised or bad sectors

platter-scraping

bearing failure

PCB electrical damage

firmware damage

component failure from overheating

About Western Digital

Western Digital Corporation (often abbreviated to WD) is the world’s second largest hard disk drive manufacturer, after Seagate. It has a long background in the electronics industry as an integrated circuit maker and thenas a storage products company. Western Digital was founded on April 23 1970 by Alvin B. Phillips. You can see Western Digital’s support and warranty page here, but be warned: their warranty does not include data recovery.