Western Digital WD5000AADS Data Recovery

We perform hard drive recovery for the WD Caviar Green WD5000AADS – Hard drive – 500 GB – internal – 3.5" – SATA-300 – buffer: 32 MB (pack of 20 ). See our up-to-date data recovery price on our home page.

Western Digital WD5000AADS

Issues Specific to Western Digital WD5000AADS

There are no data recovery issues specific to theWestern Digital WD5000AADS, but check below for anyproblems unique to Western Digital and issues found on all drives with moving parts. 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. All hard drives will fail at some point, whether by wear and tear, accidental damage, or some systematic problem due to 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:

distorted read-heads

weak or bad sectors

platter-scraping

spindle-motor failure

PCB component burn-out

firmware corruption

component damage 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 history in the electronics industry as an integrated circuit maker and as 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.