MQ04ABF100 Toshiba 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 1TB and featuring a SATA interface.
All information about the Toshiba MQ04ABF100 hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Toshiba MQ04ABF100 Technical Details:
- Hard Disk Model: Toshiba MQ04ABF100
- Disk Family: MQ04ABF Series
- Form Factor: 2.5″ (7mm thin)
- Capacity: 1000 GB (1 000 000 000 000 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 (SATA-3 6.0Gbps)
- Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 600 MB/seconds
- Buffer Size: 131072 KB (128 MB)
- Drive Ready Time (typical): 4.0 seconds
- Average Seek Time: 12.0 ms
- Track To Track Seek Time: 1.5 ms
- Width: 69.85 mm (2.75 inch)
- Depth: 100.35 mm (3.95 inch)
- Height: 7.0 mm (0.28 inch)
- Weight: 92 grams (0.20 pounds)
- Acoustic (Idle): 1.9 Bel
- Acoustic (Min performance and volume): 1.9 Bel
- Acoustic (Max performance and volume): 2.1 Bel
- Required Power For Spinup: 5V (Peak 1.0A)
- Power Required (Seek): 1.65 W
- Power Required (Idle): 0.60 W
- Power Required (Standby): 0.15 W
- Manufacturer: Toshiba Corporation
Toshiba MQ04ABF100 Hard Drives:

- MQ04ABF100, AA34/JU000A, HDKCB88ZKA01 T, Toshiba 1TB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- MQ04ABF100, AA00/JU001C, HDKCB88H0A01 T, Toshiba 1TB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- MQ04ABF100, AA00/JU001J, HDKCB88R0A01 T, Toshiba 1TB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- MQ04ABF100, AA30/JU003E, HDKCB88MMA02 T, Toshiba 1TB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- MQ04ABF100, AA00/JU0G0A, HDKCB88S0A01 T, Toshiba 1TB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- MQ04ABF100, AA00/JU000J, HDKCB88E0A01 T, Toshiba 1TB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- MQ04ABF100, AA00/JU000D, HDKCB88D0A01 T, Toshiba 1TB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- MQ04ABF100, AA21/JU004C, HDKCB88H2A01 T, Toshiba 1TB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- MQ04ABF100, AA21/JU002U, HDKCB88AYA01 T, Toshiba 1TB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
Toshiba MQ04ABF100 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 MQ04ABF100 Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Toshiba MQ04ABF100 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:
G4311A, etc.