MK8049GSY Toshiba 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 80 GB and featuring a SATA interface. MK8049GSY TOSHIBA 2.5″ 80 GB Serial-ATA/300 MK-8049GSY 7200 RPM Hard Drive.
All information about the Toshiba MK8049GSY hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Toshiba MK8049GSY Technical Details:
- Hard Disk Model: TOSHIBA MK8049GSY
- Disk Family: MK-8049GSY
- Form Factor: 2.5″
- Capacity: 80 GB (80 x 1 000 000 000 bytes)
- Number Of Disks: 1
- Number Of Heads: 2
- Rotational Speed: 7200 RPM
- Rotation Time: 8.33 ms
- Average Rotational Latency: 4.17 ms
- Disk Interface: Serial-ATA/300
- Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 300 MB/seconds
- Buffer Size: 16384 KB
- Width: 69.85 mm (2.72 inch)
- Depth: 100 mm (3.94 inch)
- Height: 9.5 mm (0.35 inch)
- Weight: 111 grams (0.24 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 MK8049GSY Hard Drives:
- MK8049GSY TOSHIBA 2.5″ 80 GB Serial-ATA/300 MK-8049GSY 7200 RPM Hard Drive.
Toshiba MK8049GSY 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 MK8049GSY Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Toshiba MK8049GSY 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.