MAY2073RC Fujitsu 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 73GB and featuring a SAS interface.
All information about the Fujitsu MAY2073RC hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Fujitsu MAY2073RC Technical Details:
- Hard Disk Model: Fujitsu MAY2073RC
- Disk Family: Enterprise MAY Series
- Form Factor: 2.5″
- Capacity: 73 GB (73 500 000 000 bytes)
- Number Of Disks: 2
- Number Of Heads: 4
- Rotational Speed: 10000 RPM
- Rotation Time: 6.00 ms
- Average Rotational Latency: 3.00 ms
- Disk Interface: Serial Attached SCSI (SAS-1 3Gbps)
- Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 300 MB/seconds
- Buffer Size: 8192 KB (8 MB)
- Drive Ready Time (typical): 15 seconds
- Average Seek Time: 4.0 ms
- Track To Track Seek Time: 0.2 ms
- Width: 70.1 mm (2.76 inch)
- Depth: 100.4 mm (3.95 inch)
- Height: 15.0 mm (0.59 inch)
- Weight: 210 grams (0.46 pounds)
- Acoustic (Idle): 3.0 Bel
- Acoustic (Min performance and volume): 3.0 Bel
- Acoustic (Max performance and volume): 3.4 Bel
- Required Power For Spinup: 12V / 5V (Peak 1.1A / 0.8A)
- Power Required (Seek): 7.2 W
- Power Required (Idle): 4.1 W
- Power Required (Standby): 2.5 W
- Manufacturer: Fujitsu Limited
Fujitsu MAY2073RC Hard Drives:

- MAY2073RC, PN CA06681-B26400SU, Fujitsu 73GB SAS 2.5″ Hard Drive
- MAY2073RC, PN CA06681-B26500CP, HP 72GB SAS 2.5″ Hard Drive
Fujitsu MAY2073RC 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 MAY2073RC Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Fujitsu MAY2073RC 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:
CA26339-B57106BA, etc.