MAX3147RC Fujitsu 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 147GB and featuring a SAS interface.
All information about the Fujitsu MAX3147RC hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Fujitsu MAX3147RC Technical Details:
- Hard Disk Model: Fujitsu MAX3147RC
- Disk Family: Enterprise MAX-RC Series
- Form Factor: 3.5″
- Capacity: 147 GB (147 000 000 000 bytes)
- Number Of Disks: 2
- Number Of Heads: 4
- Rotational Speed: 15000 RPM
- Rotation Time: 4.00 ms
- Average Rotational Latency: 2.00 ms
- Disk Interface: Serial Attached SCSI (SAS-1 3Gbps)
- Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 300 MB/seconds
- Buffer Size: 16384 KB
- Drive Ready Time (typical): 20 seconds
- Average Seek Time: 3.4 ms
- Track To Track Seek Time: 0.2 ms
- Width: 101.6 mm (4.00 inch)
- Depth: 147.0 mm (5.79 inch)
- Height: 26.1 mm (1.02 inch)
- Weight: 800 grams (1.76 pounds)
- Acoustic (Idle): 3.4 Bel
- Acoustic (Min performance and volume): 3.4 Bel
- Acoustic (Max performance and volume): 4.0 Bel
- Required Power For Spinup: 12V / 5V (Peak 2.8A)
- Power Required (Seek): 14.0 W
- Power Required (Idle): 9.0 W
- Power Required (Standby): 4.5 W
- Manufacturer: Fujitsu Limited
Fujitsu MAX3147RC Hard Drives:

- Fujitsu MAX3147RC, 15000RPM, 3.0Gp/s, 146GB SAS 3.5″ HDD
- MAX3147RC, PN CA06697-B40300DL, Fujitsu 146GB SAS 3.5″ Hard Drive
- MAX3147RC, PN CA06697-B40700HW, HP 147GB SAS 3.5″ Hard Drive
- MAX3147RC, PN CA06697-B45900BA, IBM 147GB SAS 3.5″ Hard Drive
- MAX3147RC, PN CA06697-B400, Fujitsu 147GB SAS 3.5″ Hard Drive
Fujitsu MAX3147RC 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
Fujitsu MAX3147RC Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Fujitsu MAX3147RC 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:
CA26340-B27106BA, etc.