Western Digital WD740GD Data Recovery

We perform hard drive recovery for the WD Raptor WD740GD – Hard drive – 74 GB – internal – 3.5" – SATA-150 – 10000 rpm – buffer: 8 MB. You can see our up-to-date data recovery price-list here.

Western Digital WD740GD

Issues Specific to Western Digital WD740GD

There are no data recovery issues specific to theWestern Digital WD740GD, but check below for problems specific to Western Digital and faults that can appear 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 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 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-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 background 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.