Recommended To Read:

What data recovery tools to buy if you want to start a data recovery business?

Free video data recovery training on how to recover lost data from different hard drives?

Where to buy head and platter replacement tools at good prices?

Data recover case studies step by step guide

I want to attend professional data recovery training courses

Western Digital hard drives are now more and more widely used.  It’s very necessary for us to learn How to identify different types of western Digital and then we can have a higher success rate of wd data recovery.  Silver I, Silver II, Black I, Black II, Royl  types are supported by HD Doctor for WD now. They are identified by their PCBs.

Silver I Series

silver-i-series-wd-drives-pcb

The capacity is less than 40G
5400 RPM

Silver II Series

silver-ii-series-wd-drives-pcb

The capacity is usually from 40G to 120G
7200 RPM

Black I Series

black-i-series-wd-drives-pcb

7200 RPM
Disable Zones, SA L-format and Read-only test functions are not supported.

Black II Series

black-ii-series-wd-drives-pcb

The drive with a common PCB belongs to Black II Series
Royl Series

royl-series-wd-drives-pcb

The capacity is from 40G to 750G.
Disable Zones,SA L-format,Module deflection and Read-only test functions are not supported.

Data recovery Salon welcomes your comments and shares with us your ideas, suggestions and experience. Data recovery salon is dedicated in sharing the most useful data recovery information with our users and only if you are good at data recovery or related knowledge, please kindly drop us an email and we will publish your article here. We need to make data recovery Salon to be the most professional and free data recovery E-book online.