Case Study: Data Recovery for Formatting Error in WDC WD40EZAZ-00SF3B0 SMR Hard Drive

Case Study: Data Recovery for Formatting Error in WDC WD40EZAZ-00SF3B0 SMR Hard Drive

Posted by Data Recovery@Precision on 02 Nov, 2022

The recovery of a WD SMR HDD (WD40EZAZ-00SF3B0) was successful. Prior to repairing the second translator module (190), the hard disk drive had only 0.2GB of data remaining. The engineer received the following report:

2022/11/02 09:12:43 —T2 analysis—

2022/11/02 09:12:43 —————————-

2022/11/02 09:12:43 Check SIT:

2022/11/02 09:12:43 SIT Check…OK!

2022/11/02 09:12:43 **********Vacant node count = 0 Overlapped node count = 0

2022/11/02 09:12:43 Traversal completes

2022/11/02 09:12:43 ***Tree root node no. error(Tree=7507,File=7942)

2022/11/02 09:12:43 —Param—

2022/11/02 09:12:43 T2 Format:LBA64V2

2022/11/02 09:12:44 Capacity 512:7814037168

2022/11/02 09:12:44 Capacity 4K:976754646

2022/11/02 09:12:44 Root:7942

2022/11/02 09:12:44 Entry pre node:29

2022/11/02 09:12:44 Max entry sects:65535

2022/11/02 09:12:44 Node size:256

2022/11/02 09:12:44 —Summary—

2022/11/02 09:12:44 Node count:198850

2022/11/02 09:12:44 Used count:13005

2022/11/02 09:12:44 Free count:185845

2022/11/02 09:12:44 —T2 modules—

2022/11/02 09:12:44 T2 size:50905696

2022/11/02 09:12:44 Data pos:13C6800

2022/11/02 09:12:44 Block size:4096

2022/11/02 09:12:44 Free Node ID:24183

2022/11/02 09:12:44 Entry Count:14967

2022/11/02 09:12:44 Used Entry:46

2022/11/02 09:12:44 Total node count = 198850 Used:13005

2022/11/02 09:12:50 Sort LBA

2022/11/02 09:12:51 **********Vacant node count = 0 Overlapped node count = 0

2022/11/02 09:12:51 Valid data = 0.20(GB) Unallocated = 3725.83(GB)

2022/11/02 09:12:51 Vacant Nodes:>=0

After repairing module 190, the report indicated that it was repaired and showed the following information:

2022/11/02 09:12:43 —T2 analysis—

2022/11/02 09:12:43 —————————-

2022/11/02 09:12:43 Check SIT:

2022/11/02 09:12:43 SIT Check…OK!

2022/11/02 09:12:43 **********Vacant node count = 0 Overlapped node count = 0

2022/11/02 09:12:43 Traversal completes

2022/11/02 09:12:43 ***Tree root node no. error(Tree=7507,File=7942)

2022/11/02 09:12:43 —Param—

2022/11/02 09:12:43 T2 Format:LBA64V2

2022/11/02 09:12:44 Capacity 512:7814037168

2022/11/02 09:12:44 Capacity 4K:976754646

2022/11/02 09:12:44 Root:7942

2022/11/02 09:12:44 Entry pre node:29

2022/11/02 09:12:44 Max entry sects:65535

2022/11/02 09:12:44 Node size:256

2022/11/02 09:12:44 —Summary—

2022/11/02 09:12:44 Node count:198850

2022/11/02 09:12:44 Used count:13005

2022/11/02 09:12:44 Free count:185845

2022/11/02 09:12:44 —T2 modules—

2022/11/02 09:12:44 T2 size:50905696

2022/11/02 09:12:44 Data pos:13C6800

2022/11/02 09:12:44 Block size:4096

2022/11/02 09:12:44 Free Node ID:24183

2022/11/02 09:12:44 Entry Count:14967

2022/11/02 09:12:44 Used Entry:46

2022/11/02 09:12:44 Total node count = 198850 Used:13005

2022/11/02 09:12:50 Sort LBA

2022/11/02 09:12:51 **********Vacant node count = 0 Overlapped node count = 0

2022/11/02 09:12:51 Valid data = 0.20(GB) Unallocated = 3725.83(GB)

2022/11/02 09:12:51 Vacant Nodes:>=0

2022/11/02 09:13:20 —T2 analysis—

2022/11/02 09:13:20 —————————-

2022/11/02 09:13:20 Check SIT:

2022/11/02 09:13:20 SIT Check…OK!

2022/11/02 09:13:20 **********Vacant node count = 0 Overlapped node count = 0

2022/11/02 09:13:20 Traversal completes

2022/11/02 09:13:20 —Param—

2022/11/02 09:13:20 T2 Format:LBA64V2

2022/11/02 09:13:20 Capacity 512:7814037168

2022/11/02 09:13:20 Capacity 4K:976754646

2022/11/02 09:13:20 Root:8192

2022/11/02 09:13:20 Entry pre node:29

2022/11/02 09:13:20 Max entry sects:65535

2022/11/02 09:13:20 Node size:256

2022/11/02 09:13:20 —Summary—

2022/11/02 09:13:20 Node count:198850

2022/11/02 09:13:20 Used count:22503

2022/11/02 09:13:20 Free count:176347

2022/11/02 09:13:20 —T2 modules—

2022/11/02 09:13:20 T2 size:50905696

2022/11/02 09:13:20 Data pos:13C6800

2022/11/02 09:13:20 Block size:4096

2022/11/02 09:13:20 Free Node ID:22504

2022/11/02 09:13:20 Entry Count:476879

2022/11/02 09:13:20 Used Entry:475696

2022/11/02 09:13:20 Total node count = 198850 Used:22503

2022/11/02 09:13:22 Sort LBA

2022/11/02 09:13:22 **********Vacant node count = 0 Overlapped node count = 0

2022/11/02 09:13:22 Valid data = 3708.95(GB) Unallocated = 17.07(GB)

2022/11/02 09:13:22 Vacant Nodes:>=0