IBMDLGA23080 IBM 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 3080 MB and featuring a IDE interface. IBMDLGA23080 HITACHI 2.5″ 3080 MB Fast ATA-2 Travelstar 3XP 4900 RPM Hard Drive.

All information about the IBM IBMDLGA23080 hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

IBM IBMDLGA23080 Technical Details:

  • Hard Disk Model: HITACHI IBM-DLGA-23080
  • Disk Family: Travelstar 3XP
  • Form Factor: 2.5″
  • Capacity: 3080 MB (3080 x 1 000 000 bytes)
  • Number Of Disks: 4
  • Number Of Heads: 8
  • Rotational Speed: 4900 RPM
  • Rotation Time: 12.24 ms
  • Average Rotational Latency: 6.12 ms
  • Disk Interface: Fast ATA-2
  • Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 16.6 MB/seconds
  • Buffer Size: 96 KB
  • Drive Ready Time (typical): 3.2 seconds
  • Average Seek Time: 12 ms
  • Track To Track Seek Time: 4 ms
  • Full Stroke Seek Time: 23 ms
  • Width: 69.85 mm (2.72 inch)
  • Depth: 100.2 mm (3.94 inch)
  • Height: 17 mm (0.67 inch)
  • Weight: 180 grams (0.40 pounds)
  • Acoustic (Idle): 3.3 Bel
  • Acoustic (Min performance and volume): 3.6 Bel
  • Acoustic (Max performance and volume): 3.9 Bel
  • Required Power For Spinup: 940 mA
  • Power Required (Seek): 2.3 W
  • Power Required (Idle): 0.37 W
  • Power Required (Standby): 0.06 W
  • Manufacturer: Hitachi Global Storage Technologies

IBM IBMDLGA23080 Hard Drives:

  • IBMDLGA23080 HITACHI 2.5″ 3080 MB Fast ATA-2 Travelstar 3XP 4900 RPM Hard Drive.

IBM IBMDLGA23080 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

IBM IBMDLGA23080 Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems IBM IBMDLGA23080 hard drive experience is a burned circuit board (PCB). Therefore, if you need to replace the PCB, be sure to match the “White Label Number” of the current board, such as etc.