MQ01ABD050 Toshiba 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a SATA interface. MQ01ABD050 Toshiba 500GB 5400RPM 8MB Cache 2.5-inch SATA 3GB/s Laptop Hard Drive.

All information about the Toshiba MQ01ABD050 hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Toshiba MQ01ABD050 Technical Details:

  • Hard Disk Model: TOSHIBA MQ01ABD050
  • Disk Family: MQ-01ABD050
  • Form Factor: 2.5″
  • Capacity: 500 GB (500 x 1 000 000 000 bytes)
  • Number Of Disks: 1
  • Number Of Heads: 2
  • Rotational Speed: 5400 RPM
  • Rotation Time: 11.11 ms
  • Average Rotational Latency: 5.56 ms
  • Disk Interface: Serial-ATA/300
  • Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 300 MB/seconds
  • Buffer Size: 8192 KB
  • Average Seek Time: 12 ms
  • Track To Track Seek Time: 2 ms
  • Width: 69.85 mm (2.75 inch)
  • Depth: 100 mm (3.94 inch)
  • Height: 9.5 mm (0.37 inch)
  • Weight: 102 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 MQ01ABD050 Hard Drives:

MQ01ABD050 Toshiba 500GB SATA 2.5 Inch Hard Drive

  • MQ01ABD050, AA50/AX0D5A, HDKEB03SHA01 T, Toshiba 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • MQ01ABD050, AA00/AX001C, HDKEB03H0A01 S, Toshiba 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • MQ01ABD050, AA01/AX002J, HDKEB03E0A02 T, Toshiba 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • MQ01ABD050, AA21/AX0A4M, HDKEB03T3A02 S, Toshiba 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • MQ01ABD050V, AA10/AX0C1Q, HDKEB03C0A01 T, Toshiba 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • MQ01ABD050, AA01/AX002V, HDKEB35MAA02 T, Toshiba 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • MQ01ABD050, AA10/AX002D, HDKEB03D0A02 T, Toshiba 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • Toshiba MQ01ABD050 500GB 5400RPM 2.5" Internal Hard Drive
  • MQ01ABD050, AA60/AX0E1A, HDKEB03SKA01 T, Toshiba 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • MQ01ABD050, AA21/AX0A4M, HDKEB03T3A02 T, Toshiba 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • MQ01ABD050, AA00/AX002J, HDKEB03E0A01 T, Toshiba 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • MQ01ABD050, AA11/AX0A3M, HDKEB03T3A01 T, Toshiba 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • MQ01ABD050, AA01/AX002J, HDKEB03E0A02 S, Toshiba 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • MQ01ABD050, AA11/AX0A3M, HDKEB03T3A01 S, Toshiba 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • MQ01ABD050, AA40/AX0A5A, HDKEB03SGA01 T, Toshiba 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • MQ01ABD050, AA00/AX002M, HDKEB03T0A01 T, Toshiba 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • MQ01ABD050, AA02/AX003J, HDKEB03R0A01 T, Toshiba 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • MQ01ABD050, AA10/AX003M, HDKEB03T0A01 S, Toshiba 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • MQ01ABD050, AA02/AX003J, HDKEB03R0A01 S, Toshiba 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • MQ01ABD050, AA00/AX002J, HDKEB03E0A01 S, Toshiba 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • MQ01ABD050, AA00/AX001A, HDKEB03A1A01 T, Toshiba 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • MQ01ABD050, AA00/AX001U, HDKEB03AZA01 S, Toshiba 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • MQ01ABD050, AAF2/AX0A3H, HDKEB03S5A01 S, Toshiba 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • MQ01ABD050, AA00/AX001A, HDKEB03A1A01 S, Toshiba 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • MQ01ABD050, AA00/AX001C, HDKEB03H0A01 T, Toshiba 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive

Toshiba MQ01ABD050 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 MQ01ABD050 Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Toshiba MQ01ABD050 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:
G003138A, etc.