Toshiba MQ01ABF050

MQ01ABF050 Toshiba 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a SATA interface. MQ01ABF050 Toshiba 500GB 5400RPM SATA 6GB/s 8MB Cache 2.5-inch Hard Disk Drive.

All information about the Toshiba MQ01ABF050 hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Toshiba MQ01ABF050 Technical Details:

• Hard Disk Model: TOSHIBA MQ01ABF050
• Disk Family: MQ-01ABF050
• 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/600
• Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 600 MB/seconds
• Buffer Size: 8192 KB
• Track To Track Seek Time: 2 ms
• Full Stroke Seek Time: 22 ms
• Width: 69.85 mm (2.75 inch)
• Depth: 100 mm (3.94 inch)
• Height: 7 mm (0.28 inch)
• Weight: 92 grams (0.20 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 MQ01ABF050 Hard Drives:

• Toshiba MQ01ABF050 500GB 5.4K RPM 2.5” 7mm SATA Hard Drive
• MQ01ABF050, AB00/AM0P1D, HDKCB16D2A01 T, Toshiba 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
• MQ01ABF050, AA10/AM003M, HDKCB06T0A01 T, Toshiba 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
• MQ01ABF050, AA00/AM001K, HDKCB06F0A01 T, Toshiba 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
• MQ01ABF050, AC10/AM0P2D, HDKCB16D4A01 T, Toshiba 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
• MQ01ABF050, AB10/AM0P1A, HDKCB16A1A01 T, Toshiba 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
• MQ01ABF050, AB00/AM0P1D, HDKCB16D2A01 S, Toshiba 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
• MQ01ABF050, AA01/AM0P2C, HDKCB16H2A01 T, Toshiba 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
• MQ01ABF050, AA00/AM001J, HDKCB06E0A01 S, Toshiba 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
• MQ01ABF050, AA00/AM002C, HDKCB06H0A01 T, Toshiba 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
• MQ01ABF050, AC10/AM0Q6E, HDKCB36MEA01 T, Toshiba 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
• MQ01ABF050, AC11/AM0P2D, HDKCB16D4A02 T, Toshiba 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
• MQ01ABF050, AC10/AM0P2D, HDKCB16D4A01 S, Toshiba 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
• MQ01ABF050, AB10/AM0B3J, HDKCB16EAA01 S, Toshiba 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
• MQ01ABF050, AB11/AM0P4C, HDKCB16H8A01 T, Toshiba 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
• MQ01ABF050, AA02/AM0G3H, HDKCB06S3A01 S, Toshiba 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
• MQ01ABF050, AB10/AM0B3J, HDKCB16EAA01 T, Toshiba 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
• MQ01ABF050, AA02/AM0G3H, HDKCB06S3A01 T, Toshiba 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
• MQ01ABF050, AB10/AM0P2A, HDKCB16A2A01 T, Toshiba 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
• MQ01ABF050, AA00/AM001A, HDKCB06A1A01 T, Toshiba 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
• MQ01ABF050, AB11/AM0P4C, HDKCB16H6A01 T, Toshiba 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
• MQ01ABF050, AA01/AM0P2C, HDKCB16H2A01 S, Toshiba 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
• MQ01ABF050, AB00/AM0P1D, HDKCB16D2A02 T, Toshiba 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
• MQ01ABF050, AA01/AM001J, HDKCB06E0A02 T, Toshiba 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
• MQ01ABF050, AA00/AM001D, HDKCB06D0A01 S, Toshiba 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive

Toshiba MQ01ABF050 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 MQ01ABF050 Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Toshiba MQ01ABF050 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:
G003235A, G003235C, G003235B, G3461A, etc.