HD103SJ Samsung 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 1TB and featuring a SATA interface. HD103SJ/EXP Samsung Spinpoint HD103SJ 1 TB 3.5 Internal Hard Drive SATA/300 7200 rpm 32 MB Buffer.
All information about the Samsung HD103SJ hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Samsung HD103SJ Technical Details:
- Hard Disk Model: SAMSUNG HD103SJ
- Disk Family: SpinPoint F3
- Form Factor: 3.5″
- Capacity: 1 TB (1 x 1 000 000 000 000 bytes)
- Number Of Disks: 2
- Number Of Heads: 4
- Rotational Speed: 7200 RPM
- Rotation Time: 8.33 ms
- Average Rotational Latency: 4.17 ms
- Disk Interface: Serial-ATA/300
- Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 300 MB/seconds
- Buffer Size: 32768 KB
- Drive Ready Time (typical): 11 seconds
- Average Seek Time: 8.9 ms
- Width: 101.5 mm (4.00 inch)
- Depth: 147.0 mm (5.79 inch)
- Height: 26.1 mm (1.03 inch)
- Weight: 625 grams (1.38 pounds)
- Acoustic (Idle): 2.7 Bel
- Acoustic (Min performance and volume): 2.9 Bel
- Acoustic (Max performance and volume): 2.9 Bel
- Required Power For Spinup: 2200 mA
- Power Required (Seek): 7.2 W
- Power Required (Idle): 6.3 W
- Power Required (Standby): 1 W
- Manufacturer: Samsung
Samsung HD103SJ Hard Drives:
- HD103SJ, HD103SJ, FW 1AJ10001, Samsung 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- SAMSUNG 3.5" HD103SJ 1TB SATA HARD DRIVE
- HD103SJ, HD103SJ/B01, FW 1AJ10006, Samsung 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- HD103SJ, HD103SJ/A1, FW 1AJ10102, Samsung 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- HD103SJ, HD103SJ/SCC, FW 1AJ10002, Samsung 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- ST1000DM005, HD103SJ, FW 1AJ10001, Samsung 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- HD103SJ, HD103SJ/A, FW 1AJ10102, Samsung 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- HD103SJ, HD103SJ/D, FW 1AJ10001, Samsung 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- HD103SJ, HD103SJ/COM, FW 1AJ10002, Samsung 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- HD103SJ, HD103SJ/U, FW 1AJ10001, Samsung 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- HD103SJ, HD103SJ/A, FW 1AJ10004, Samsung 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- HD103SJ, HD103SJ/JP1, FW 1AJ10001, Samsung 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- HD103SJ, HD103SJ/B, FW 1AJ10002, Samsung 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- HD103SJ, HD103SJ/D, FW 1AJ10002, Samsung 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- HD103SJ, HD103SJ, FW 1AJ100E5, Samsung 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- HD103SJ, HD103SJ, FW 1AJ100E4, Samsung 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- HD103SJ, HD103SJ/EXP, FW 1AJ10001, Samsung 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
Samsung HD103SJ Failure Symptoms:
- Electrical Failure Symptoms:
Drive is powered, but shows no sign of function;
Disk knocking as the motor fails to spin;
Clicking sound as the heads search or initialize; - Mechanical Failure Symptoms:
Clicking, grinding sounds;
Completely quiet due to ” motor freeze”;
“music” tone as the disk is powered up; - Logical Failure Examples:
Accidental deletion, accidental format, file corruption, software bugs, file system corruption, viruses and malware, and many, many more. - Firmware Failure Symptoms:
drive powers up, but is not recognised by the computer;
Drive powers up, but is recognised wrongly, sometimes with nonsensical characters;
Drive freezes during booting up; - Bad Platter Area Symptoms:
Hard disk still accessible but appear to “hang” or “sluggish”;
Constant Cyclic Redundancy (CRC) errors;
Unable to access folders or files which could be seen; - Complex Failure Model
Samsung HD103SJ Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Samsung HD103SJ Hard Disk Drive experience is burnt circuit board(PCB). So if you will need to match a replacement PCB, it is important that you note the “Board Number” of your current circuit board in addition to the hard drive’s “Model Number“.
Multiple PCB Number revisions:
BF41-00359A, BF41-00314A, BF41-00353A, BF41-00303A, BF41-00371A, BF41-00329A, BF41-00278A, BF41-00303A, etc.