Western Digital Hard Drive model number suffix - what does..

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go to one of those mom & pop shops check if they have the one with the
correct serial number and buy

"Allen Huffman" <alsplace@pobox.com> wrote in message
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> Greetings. I just have a WD 200GB drive fry on me, and it seems the
> part that is bad is the circuit board. The drive itself spins up when
> I swap the board with another "identical" drive, but it is incorrectly
> recognized as a 2 TERABYTE drive (would be nice...)
>
> The drive is a Western Digital WD2000JB-32EVA0 "Special Edition"
> model. A replacement drive I purchased from Tiger Direct ($90 after
> rebate right now), made a year later, has a different suffix
> (WD2000JB-00FUA0). And, the in-warranty replacement that WD just sent
> me ends with 00EVA0.
>
> Can anyone point me to a resource that explains more on the suffixes
> and what they mean? All the specs remain the same on the various
> WD2000JB drives, but there must be some differents in the controller
> firmware or something.
>
> My goal is to find a matching board to put on my old drive to allow me
> to recover my 200GB of video data (else I have to reimport hours and
> hours of footage and edit them down again).
>
> A document on WDs site, 2579-001028, explains things such as "JB" and
> "BB" or RTL for retail, then goes on to mention suffixes are "in
> house" and refers me to another document: 2096-000101. Unfortunately,
> this document must not be public as it does not live on their site,
> and the only search I can find for it is the original PDF mentioning
> it.
>
> I would be most grateful for anyone who could shed some light on this.
> Thanks!
>
> -- Allen

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On 7 Jul 2004 16:38:23 -0700, alsplace@pobox.com (Allen Huffman)
wrote:

>Greetings. I just have a WD 200GB drive fry on me, and it seems the
>part that is bad is the circuit board. The drive itself spins up when
>I swap the board with another "identical" drive, but it is incorrectly
>recognized as a 2 TERABYTE drive (would be nice...)
>
>The drive is a Western Digital WD2000JB-32EVA0 "Special Edition"
>model. A replacement drive I purchased from Tiger Direct ($90 after
>rebate right now), made a year later, has a different suffix
>(WD2000JB-00FUA0). And, the in-warranty replacement that WD just sent
>me ends with 00EVA0.
>
>Can anyone point me to a resource that explains more on the suffixes
>and what they mean? All the specs remain the same on the various
>WD2000JB drives, but there must be some differents in the controller
>firmware or something.
>
>My goal is to find a matching board to put on my old drive to allow me
>to recover my 200GB of video data (else I have to reimport hours and
>hours of footage and edit them down again).
>
>A document on WDs site, 2579-001028, explains things such as "JB" and
>"BB" or RTL for retail, then goes on to mention suffixes are "in
>house" and refers me to another document: 2096-000101. Unfortunately,
>this document must not be public as it does not live on their site,
>and the only search I can find for it is the original PDF mentioning
>it.
>
>I would be most grateful for anyone who could shed some light on this.
> Thanks!
>
> -- Allen


Been scratching my head over that too. I suspect it's stuff like
warranty, special vendor channels, and bearing type: ball
bearing/fluid bearing.