MK1639GSL Toshiba 1.8″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 160 GB and featuring a SATA interface. MK1639GSL TOSHIBA 1.8″ 160 GB Serial-ATA/150 MK-1639GSL 4200 RPM Hard Drive.
All information about the Toshiba MK1639GSL hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Toshiba MK1639GSL Technical Details:
- Hard Disk Model: TOSHIBA MK1639GSL
- Disk Family: MK-1639GSL
- Form Factor: 1.8″
- Capacity: 160 GB (160 x 1 000 000 000 bytes)
- Number Of Disks: 1
- Number Of Heads: 2
- Rotational Speed: 4200 RPM
- Rotation Time: 14.29 ms
- Average Rotational Latency: 7.14 ms
- Disk Interface: Serial-ATA/150
- Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 150 MB/seconds
- Buffer Size: 16384 KB
- Drive Ready Time (typical): 3.5 seconds
- Average Seek Time: 15 ms
- Track To Track Seek Time: 3 ms
- Full Stroke Seek Time: 26 ms
- Width: 54 mm (2.13 inch)
- Depth: 71 mm (2.80 inch)
- Height: 5 mm (0.20 inch)
- Weight: 48 grams (0.11 pounds)
- Required Power For Spinup: 600 mA
- Power Required (Seek): 1.1 W
- Power Required (Idle): 0.4 W
- Power Required (Standby): 0.12 W
- Manufacturer: Toshiba Corp., Storage Device Division
Toshiba MK1639GSL Hard Drives:
- MK1639GSL TOSHIBA 1.8″ 160 GB Serial-ATA/150 MK-1639GSL 4200 RPM Hard Drive.
Toshiba MK1639GSL 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 MK1639GSL Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Toshiba MK1639GSL 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.