WD20EADS data recovery
Recovering data from the Western Digital WD20EADS (2TB), a 3.5-inch SATA drive from the WD Caviar Green and WD Green range. Free evaluation in our central London clean-room lab, with courier collection from anywhere in the UK.
About the WD20EADS
| Make | Western Digital |
| Family | WD Caviar Green and WD Green |
| Model | WD20EADS |
| Capacity | 2TB |
| Size | 3.5-inch |
| Connection | SATA |
| Made | 2007–2016 |
| Used in | Low-power desktop |
What usually goes wrong
WD Greens park their heads very often to save power, which wears them out over years of use, especially in NAS boxes. Head failure and firmware faults are the usual problems.
If your WD20EADS is clicking, beeping or not spinning, switch it off. Every restart can damage the platters further. Don’t open it and don’t run recovery software on it.
How we recover the WD20EADS
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.
We always work on a copy of the drive, never the original, and you get a list of recovered files to check before you pay for the recovery.
Prices
| Evaluation | Free |
| Clean-room diagnostic | £79 |
| Deleted files, working drive | £99 |
| Logical recovery, 1TB–4TB | £150–£250 |
| Physical recovery, single driveplus donor drive if needed | £450 |
All prices + VAT. Full price list