HD083GJ Samsung 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 80GB and featuring a SATA interface. HD083GJ Samsung SpinPoint 80GB 7200RPM 8MB Cache 3.5-inch SATA 3GB/s Hard Drive.
All information about the Samsung HD083GJ hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Samsung HD083GJ Technical Details:
- Hard Disk Model: SAMSUNG HD083GJ
- Disk Family: SpinPoint F1
- Form Factor: 3.5″
- Capacity: 80 GB (80 x 1 000 000 000 bytes)
- Number Of Disks: 1
- Number Of Heads: 1
- 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: 8192 KB
- Drive Ready Time (typical): 8 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: 470 grams (1.04 pounds)
- Acoustic (Idle): 2.7 Bel
- Acoustic (Min performance and volume): 2.8 Bel
- Acoustic (Max performance and volume): 2.8 Bel
- Required Power For Spinup: 2250 mA
- Power Required (Seek): 9.5 W
- Power Required (Idle): 7.7 W
- Power Required (Standby): 0.90 W
- Manufacturer: Samsung
Samsung HD083GJ Hard Drives:
- HD083GJ, HD083GJ/D, FW 1AC01113, Samsung 80GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- HD083GJ, HD083GJ/D, FW 1AC01117, Samsung 80GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- Samsung SpinPoint 80GB Internal 7200RPM 3.5" (HD083GJ) HDD
- HD083GJ, HD083GJ/B, FW 1AC01118, Samsung 80GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
Samsung HD083GJ 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 HD083GJ Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Samsung HD083GJ 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:
BF41-00204B, etc.