Western Digital hard drive recovery
Western Digital (WD) makes the Blue, Green, Black, Red, Purple and Gold ranges, the My Passport and My Book external drives, and owns HGST since 2012.
Western Digital drive families
Choose the family to see every model number, the faults we see and how we recover it. We use PC-3000 systems from ACE Lab, the professional standard for data recovery labs. PC-3000 lets us repair a drive’s firmware through its service area, read damaged drives one head at a time, and copy weak drives slowly and safely without stressing them. Physical repairs such as replacing read/write heads are done in our clean room in central London, so the drive never leaves our lab.
WD Caviar (IDE)
2000–2007 · 3.5″ · Desktop
6 models
WD Caviar SE and SE16 (SATA)
2004–2009 · 3.5″ · Desktop
5 models
WD Caviar Green and WD Green
2007–2016 · 3.5″ · Low-power desktop
8 models
WD Caviar Blue and WD Blue
2009–today · 3.5″ · Desktop
7 models
WD Caviar Black and WD Black
2008–today · 3.5″ · Performance desktop
6 models
WD Red, Red Plus and Red Pro
2012–today · 3.5″ · NAS
10 models
WD Purple (CCTV)
2014–today · 3.5″ · Surveillance
6 models
WD RE and WD Gold
2007–today · 3.5″ · Enterprise / server
6 models
WD VelociRaptor
2008–2014 · 2.5 in 3.5 frame” · 10,000 rpm workstation
4 models
WD Scorpio Blue and Black (laptop)
2005–2012 · 2.5″ · Laptop
6 models
WD Blue and Black 2.5-inch (laptop)
2012–today · 2.5″ · Laptop
6 models
WD My Passport and Elements (USB-native)
2010–today · 2.5″ · Portable external
6 models