MK1656GSY Toshiba 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 160GB and featuring a SATA interface. MK1656GSY Toshiba 160GB 7200RPM 16MB Cache 2.5-inch SATA-300 Laptop Hard Drive.
All information about the Toshiba MK1656GSY hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Toshiba MK1656GSY Technical Details:
- Hard Disk Model: TOSHIBA MK1656GSY
- Disk Family: MK-1656GSY
- Form Factor: 2.5″
- Capacity: 160 GB (160 x 1 000 000 000 bytes)
- Number Of Disks: 1
- Number Of Heads: 2
- 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: 16384 KB
- Average Seek Time: 11 ms
- Track To Track Seek Time: 1 ms
- Width: 69.85 mm (2.75 inch)
- Depth: 100 mm (3.94 inch)
- Height: 9.5 mm (0.37 inch)
- Weight: 98 grams (0.22 pounds)
- Required Power For Spinup: 940 mA
- Power Required (Seek): 2.7 W
- Power Required (Idle): 1.0 W
- Power Required (Standby): 0.25 W
- Manufacturer: Toshiba Corp., Storage Device Division
Toshiba MK1656GSY Hard Drives:
- MK1656GSY, A0/LH013C, HDD2E64 F VL01 T, Toshiba 160GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- MK1656GSYF, LJ011D, HDD2E74 D UL01 T, Toshiba 160GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- MK1656GSY, LH013D, HDD2E64 D UL03 T, Toshiba 160GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- MK1656GSY, A0/LH013C, HDD2E64 F VL01 S, Toshiba 160GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- MK1656GSY, LH012D, HDD2E64 D UL02 T, Toshiba 160GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
Toshiba MK1656GSY 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 MK1656GSY Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Toshiba MK1656GSY 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:
G002587-0A, etc.