82160A4 Maxtor 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 2.1GB and featuring a IDE interface. 82160A4 Maxtor 2.1GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive.

All information about the Maxtor 82160A4 hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Maxtor 82160A4 Technical Details:

  • Hard Disk Model: MAXTOR 82160A4
  • Disk Family: DiamondMax 1280
  • Form Factor: 3.5″
  • Capacity: 2160 MB (2160 x 1 000 000 bytes)
  • Number Of Disks: 2
  • Number Of Heads: 4
  • Rotational Speed: 5400 RPM
  • Rotation Time: 11.11 ms
  • Average Rotational Latency: 5.56 ms
  • Disk Interface: Fast ATA-2
  • Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 16.6 MB/seconds
  • Buffer Size: 256 KB
  • Drive Ready Time (typical): 20 seconds
  • Average Seek Time: 9.7 ms
  • Track To Track Seek Time: 1 ms
  • Full Stroke Seek Time: 21 ms
  • Width: 101.6 mm (4.00 inch)
  • Depth: 146.1 mm (5.75 inch)
  • Height: 25.4 mm (1.00 inch)
  • Weight: 500 grams (1.10 pounds)
  • Acoustic (Idle): 3.5 Bel
  • Acoustic (Min performance and volume): 2.7 Bel
  • Acoustic (Max performance and volume): 2.7 Bel
  • Required Power For Spinup: 1520 mA
  • Power Required (Seek): 12.2 W
  • Power Required (Idle): 7.3 W
  • Power Required (Standby): 0.9 W
  • Manufacturer: Seagate Corporation

Maxtor 82160A4 Hard Drives:

82160A4 Maxtor 2.1GB IDE 3.5 Inch Hard Drive

  • 82160A4, KZB, Maxtor 2.1GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive

Maxtor 82160A4 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

Maxtor 82160A4 Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Maxtor 82160A4 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 “Main Controller IC Number” of your current circuit board in addition to the hard drive’s “Model Number“.

Multiple Main Controller IC Number revisions:
11105461K, etc.

Multiple Board Number revisions:
301116103, etc.