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 Post subject: Did Western Digital ever make any WD6001FXYZs?
PostPosted: April 28th, 2025, 15:11 
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The Western Digital WD6001FSYZ was the final flagship 7,200 rpm multi-platter drive to be designed entirely by Western Digital before they started just selling rebranded HGST 7K6000s. These (along with their WD Black, WD Red Pro and WD Se counterparts) do occasionally come up for sale on sites like eBay. However, there was also a 4K native version of that drive called the WD6001FXYZ, and I cannot find a single picture of one online. Did Western Digital ever actually sell any of these?


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 Post subject: Re: Did Western Digital ever make any WD6001FXYZs?
PostPosted: April 28th, 2025, 20:21 
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https://harddiskdirect.com/wd6001fxyz-wd-desktop-hard-drive.html

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is this what you mean?


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 Post subject: Re: Did Western Digital ever make any WD6001FXYZs?
PostPosted: April 28th, 2025, 23:16 
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HaQue wrote:

No. That is just a corporate computer-generated image, not an actual picture that someone has taken of one. The only pictures I can find are of WD6001FSYZs.


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 Post subject: Re: Did Western Digital ever make any WD6001FXYZs?
PostPosted: April 30th, 2025, 15:58 
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FYI ...

https://www.hddoracle.com/download/file.php?id=10747&mode=view

https://www.hddoracle.com/download/file.php?id=10744

Western Digital and Silicon Systems model codes:
https://www.hddoracle.com/viewtopic.php?p=24739#p24739

SELV = safety extra low voltage circuit

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 Post subject: Re: Did Western Digital ever make any WD6001FXYZs?
PostPosted: May 7th, 2025, 5:39 
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This may not be exactly what he was looking for, but it's what I needed. Thanks!


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 Post subject: Re: Did Western Digital ever make any WD6001FXYZs?
PostPosted: December 2nd, 2025, 0:17 
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Someone just sold one! And it only has 28 hours on it!

https://www.ebay.com/itm/167955077584


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 Post subject: Re: Did Western Digital ever make any WD6001FXYZs?
PostPosted: December 2nd, 2025, 12:58 
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That drive appears to be a fake.

1/ The capacity on the label is 1465130646 LBAs. That's 750GB. A real 750GB drive has 1465149168 LBAs (a difference of 18522 sectors), and a real 6TB drive has 11721045168 LBAs.

2/ The DCX (8B1SV4092) suggests that the model number suffix should be -xxBV9x1.

3/ The serial number is unknown at WD's warranty checker page.

https://support-en.wd.com/app/warrantystatusweb

4/ The R/N is 800002, which reflects the PCB P/N, 2060-800002. Typical models with this PCB are WD5001FZWX-00ZHUA0, WD6001FZWX-00A2VA0 and WD5001FZWX-00A2VA0.

https://www.hdd-parts.com/nsearch.html?section=&query=800002&searchsubmit=Search&vwcatalog=yhst-14437584971410

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/mlIAAeSwY9xo~RKi/s-l1600.webp (label)

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/tioAAeSwHb1o~RKd/s-l1600.webp (SMART)


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 Post subject: Re: Did Western Digital ever make any WD6001FXYZs?
PostPosted: December 2nd, 2025, 13:34 
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1465130646 LBAs x 4096 = 6001175126016


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 Post subject: Re: Did Western Digital ever make any WD6001FXYZs?
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SWM wrote:
1465130646 LBAs x 4096 = 6001175126016

Doh!

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 Post subject: Re: Did Western Digital ever make any WD6001FXYZs?
PostPosted: December 2nd, 2025, 16:00 
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fzabkar wrote:
That drive appears to be a fake.

1/ The capacity on the label is 1465130646 LBAs. That's 750GB. A real 750GB drive has 1465149168 LBAs (a difference of 18522 sectors), and a real 6TB drive has 11721045168 LBAs.

2/ The DCX (8B1SV4092) suggests that the model number suffix should be -xxBV9x1.

3/ The serial number is unknown at WD's warranty checker page.

https://support-en.wd.com/app/warrantystatusweb

4/ The R/N is 800002, which reflects the PCB P/N, 2060-800002. Typical models with this PCB are WD5001FZWX-00ZHUA0, WD6001FZWX-00A2VA0 and WD5001FZWX-00A2VA0.

https://www.hdd-parts.com/nsearch.html?section=&query=800002&searchsubmit=Search&vwcatalog=yhst-14437584971410

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/mlIAAeSwY9xo~RKi/s-l1600.webp (label)

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/tioAAeSwHb1o~RKd/s-l1600.webp (SMART)

It would have 11721045168 sectors if it was a 512-byte-per-sector drive. But this is a 4096-byte-per-sector drive, so divide that first number by 8, and you get 1465130646 sectors. Also, this is the correct model suffix, as listed on RML527's HDD Platter Capacity Database. Western Digital has never used the model suffix you listed. As well as that, the WD6001FZWX is the WD Black version of the much more common 512e version of this drive, the WD6001FSYZ. They use the same unique HDA that was only used on Western Digital's final five-platter platform before switching to re-branded Hitachi drives.


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 Post subject: Re: Did Western Digital ever make any WD6001FXYZs?
PostPosted: December 2nd, 2025, 16:41 
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BijouMan wrote:
Western Digital has never used the model suffix you listed.

I expect you will find that suffix in the SA firmware. The suffix would have been amended afterwards.

See this thread:

https://www.hddoracle.com/viewtopic.php?p=14305#p14305

A drive with "WD5000AUDX-63WNHY0" on the label has "WD5000AUDX-63AMGY0" in SA module 0x8028. The DCX reflects AMG rather than WNH.

BTW, you will need Firefox to access that site (due to ongoing DDOS attack mitigation).

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