HS12YHA Samsung 1.8″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 120GB and featuring a ZIF interface. HS12YHA Samsung SpinPoint N3A 120GB 3600RPM IDE / ATA-66 8MB Cache 1.8-inch Hard Drive.

All information about the Samsung HS12YHA hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Samsung HS12YHA Technical Details:

  • Hard Disk Model: SAMSUNG HS12YHA
  • Disk Family: SpinPoint N3A
  • Form Factor: 1.8″
  • Capacity: 120 GB (120 x 1 000 000 000 bytes)
  • Number Of Disks: 1
  • Number Of Heads: 2
  • Rotational Speed: 3600 RPM
  • Rotation Time: 16.67 ms
  • Average Rotational Latency: 8.33 ms
  • Disk Interface: Ultra-ATA/66
  • Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 66.6 MB/seconds
  • Buffer Size: 8192 KB
  • Drive Ready Time (typical): 3 seconds
  • Average Seek Time: 15 ms
  • Width: 54 mm (2.13 inch)
  • Depth: 71 mm (2.80 inch)
  • Height: 5 mm (0.20 inch)
  • Weight: 48 grams (0.11 pounds)
  • Manufacturer: Samsung

Samsung HS12YHA Hard Drives:

HS12YHA Samsung 120GB ZIF 1.8 Inch Hard Drive

  • HS12YHA, HS12YHA/I, FW 3AD10-00, Samsung 120GB ZIF 1.8 Hard Drive

Samsung HS12YHA 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 HS12YHA Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Samsung HS12YHA 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:
, etc.