Western Digital WD300AB Data Recovery

We perform hard drive recovery for the WD Caviar WD300AB – Hard drive – 30 GB – internal – 3.5" – ATA-100 – 5400 rpm – buffer: 2 MB. You can see our up-to-date data recovery price on our home page.

Western Digital WD300AB

Issues Specific to Western Digital WD300AB

There are no data recovery issues unique to theWestern Digital WD300AB, but check below for anyproblems specific to Western Digital and faults found on all mechanical hard drives. Users rated this hard drive at 4 stars out of 5.

Typical Western Digital Hard Drive Issues

Western Digital have shipped a vast volume of hard drives, which are typically extremely reliable. Inevitably hard drives will fail at some point, whether by wear and tear, mishandling, or some systematic problem caused by unique or family-wide errors in thefirmware 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 platters are prone to the following problems:

damaged read-heads

weak or bad sectors

platter-scraping

spindle failure

PCB damage

firmware corruption

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 visit Western Digital’s support and warranty page here, but be warned: their warranty does not include data recovery.