Drive terminology AAKS vs AAKX

[Lewis_10]

My old (2007) 500GB WD5000AAKS drive has failed and is no longer available on the internet.. Can I replace it with a 500GB WD5000AAKX drive. What do the letters signify?

 

[voltoid27]

IIRC the only difference between the S drives and the X drives is the SATA interface. S= SATA II (3 Gb/s) and X= SATA III (6 Gb/s). So yes, replace away!

 

[Lewis_10]

IIRC the only difference between the S drives and the X drives is the SATA interface. S= SATA II (3 Gb/s) and X= SATA III (6 Gb/s). So yes, replace away!

 

[D_Know_WD]

Hi there Lewis_10,

Sorry that your old WD failed. 🙁
Yeah, you can replace it with WD5000AAKX. Actually, voltoid27 is right. The only difference is that the newer drive model is SATA 3.
Check this out: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=1hUkjt

Let me know in case you have some more questions,
D_Know_WD

 

[raouf007]

Hi,
i have a hdd failure on the model WD5000AAKS, and ai have read your replay about AAKS vs AAKX


I would like to know if i swap the disk plates from one KS to the KX doest it could be readen back to rescue my data ?

PS : that's my personal data and i can't have acces to rescu service in tunisia, so i have to do it my self.

thx's for the help, very very urgent .

PS : the mecanisme seems ok but the mother boad of the disk don't show any firmware or any stuf that make my sure the matter is on t hat board.

 

[SkyNetRising]

I would like to know if i swap the disk plates from one KS to the KX doest it could be readen back to rescue my data ?

No you can't recover it yourself. You can only ruin it permanently.
Opening a hard drive requires a specialized clean room environment. If you do it anywhere else, this ruins the drive.

 

[fzabkar]

@raouf007, what are the symptoms? Does your drive spin up? Does it click and then spin down, or does it remain spinning?

What is the history of the drive? Did you do anything that may have damaged it? Was it internal or external?

 

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