MQ02ABF050H Toshiba 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a SATA interface. MQ02ABF050H Toshiba 500GB 5400RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache (512e) 8GB MLC SSD 2.5-inch Hybrid Drive.

All information about the Toshiba MQ02ABF050H hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Toshiba MQ02ABF050H Technical Details:

  • Hard Disk Model: TOSHIBA MQ02ABF050H
  • Disk Family: MQ-02ABF050H
  • Form Factor: 2.5″
  • Capacity: 500 GB (500 x 1 000 000 000 bytes)
  • 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: 65536 KB
  • Width: 69.85 mm (2.75 inch)
  • Depth: 100.45 mm (3.95 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 MQ02ABF050H Hard Drives:

MQ02ABF050H Toshiba 500GB SATA 2.5 Inch Hard Drive

  • MQ02ABF050H, AA00/HDF01D, HDKCB59D0A01 T, Toshiba 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • MQ02ABF050H, AA00/HDF01D, HDKCB59D0A02 T, Toshiba 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • MQ02ABF050H, AA00/HDFC1E, HDKCB59M1A01 T, Toshiba 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • MQ02ABF050H, AA00/HDF01C, HDKCB59H0A01 T, Toshiba 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive

Toshiba MQ02ABF050H 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 MQ02ABF050H Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Toshiba MQ02ABF050H 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:
G3814A, etc.