Western Digital WD740BLFS Data Recovery

We perform hard drive recovery for the WD VelociRaptor WD740BLFS – Hard drive – 74 GB – internal – 2.5" – SATA-300 – 10000 rpm – buffer: 16 MB. You can see our up-to-date data recovery price-list here.

Western Digital WD740BLFS

Issues Specific to Western Digital WD740BLFS

There are no data recovery issues unique to theWestern Digital WD740BLFS, but check below for problems specific 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 Problems

Western Digital manufacture a vast volume of hard drives, which are typically extremely reliable. All hard drives will fail at some point, whether by wear and tear, mishandling, or some systematic issue 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:

impacted read-heads

weakly magnetised or damaged sectors

platter-scraping

bearing failure

PCB damage

firmware wiped

component failure from overheating

About Western Digital

Western Digital Corporation (often abbreviated to WD) is the world’s second biggest 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 see Western Digital’s support and warranty page here, but be warned: their warranty does not include data recovery.