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, 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.