Western Digital WD800JBRTL Data Recovery

We perform hard drive recovery for the WESTERN DIGITAL WD800JBRTL Caviar Special Edition Internal 80GB Hard Drive. See our up-to-date data recovery price-list here.

Western Digital WD800JBRTL

Issues Specific to Western Digital WD800JBRTL

There are no data recovery issues unique to theWestern Digital WD800JBRTL, but check below for problems specific to Western Digital and faults found on all drives with moving parts. Users rated this hard drive at 4 marks 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 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:

damaged read-heads

weakly magnetised or bad sectors

platter-gouging

spindle-motor failure

PCB component burn-out

firmware damage

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.