AL13SXB600N Toshiba 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 600GB and featuring a SAS interface.
All information about the Toshiba AL13SXB600N hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Toshiba AL13SXB600N Technical Details:
- Hard Disk Model: Toshiba AL13SXB600N
- Disk Family: AL13SXB Enterprise Series
- Form Factor: 2.5″ (Enterprise 15mm)
- Capacity: 600 GB (600 000 000 000 bytes)
- Number Of Disks: 3
- Number Of Heads: 6
- Rotational Speed: 15000 RPM
- Rotation Time: 4.00 ms
- Average Rotational Latency: 2.00 ms
- Disk Interface: Serial Attached SCSI (SAS-2.1 6Gbps)
- Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 600 MB/seconds
- Buffer Size: 65536 KB (64 MB)
- Drive Ready Time (typical): 15.0 seconds
- Average Seek Time: 2.7 ms
- Track To Track Seek Time: 0.2 ms
- Width: 69.85 mm (2.75 inch)
- Depth: 100.45 mm (3.95 inch)
- Height: 15.0 mm (0.59 inch)
- Weight: 220 grams (0.49 pounds)
- Acoustic (Idle): 3.2 Bel
- Acoustic (Min performance and volume): 3.2 Bel
- Acoustic (Max performance and volume): 3.6 Bel
- Required Power For Spinup: 12V / 5V (Peak 1.5A)
- Power Required (Seek): 9.0 W
- Power Required (Idle): 4.5 W
- Power Required (Standby): 2.8 W
- Manufacturer: Toshiba Storage Products Division
Toshiba AL13SXB600N Hard Drives:
- AL13SXB600N, 0404, HDEAE00EAA51, Toshiba 600GB SAS 2.5″ Hard Drive
Toshiba AL13SXB600N 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
Toshiba AL13SXB600N Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Toshiba AL13SXB600N 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:
G3583C, etc.