HNM160MBB Samsung 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 160 GB and featuring a SATA interface. HNM160MBB SAMSUNG 2.5″ 160 GB Serial-ATA/300 SpinPoint M8 5400 RPM Hard Drive.
All information about the Samsung HNM160MBB hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Samsung HNM160MBB Technical Details:
- Hard Disk Model: SAMSUNG HN-M160MBB
- Disk Family: SpinPoint M8
- Form Factor: 2.5″
- Capacity: 160 GB (160 x 1 000 000 000 bytes)
- Number Of Disks: 1
- Number Of Heads: 1
- 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
- Drive Ready Time (typical): 4 seconds
- Average Seek Time: 12 ms
- Width: 69.75 mm (2.72 inch)
- Depth: 100.3 mm (3.94 inch)
- Height: 9.5 mm (0.35 inch)
- Weight: 107 grams (0.24 pounds)
- Acoustic (Idle): 2.4 Bel
- Acoustic (Min performance and volume): 2.6 Bel
- Acoustic (Max performance and volume): 2.6 Bel
- Required Power For Spinup: 1000 mA
- Power Required (Seek): 2.4 W
- Power Required (Idle): 0.85 W
- Power Required (Standby): 0.25 W
- Manufacturer: Samsung
Samsung HNM160MBB Hard Drives:
- HNM160MBB SAMSUNG 2.5″ 160 GB Serial-ATA/300 SpinPoint M8 5400 RPM Hard Drive.
Samsung HNM160MBB 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
Samsung HNM160MBB Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Samsung HNM160MBB hard drive experience is a burned circuit board (PCB). Therefore, if you need to replace the PCB, be sure to match the “PCB Number” of the current board, such as etc.