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, 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.