MHS2040AT Fujitsu 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 40GB and featuring a IDE interface. MHS2040AT Fujitsu Mobile 40GB 4200RPM ATA-100 2MB Cache 2.5-inch Hard Drive.
All information about the Fujitsu MHS2040AT hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Fujitsu MHS2040AT Technical Details:
- Hard Disk Model: FUJITSU MHS2040AT
- Disk Family: –
- Form Factor: 2.5″
- Capacity: 40 GB (40 x 1 000 000 000 bytes)
- Number Of Disks: 2
- Number Of Heads: 3
- Rotational Speed: 4200 RPM
- Rotation Time: 14.29 ms
- Average Rotational Latency: 7.14 ms
- Disk Interface: Ultra-ATA/100
- Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 100 MB/seconds
- Buffer Size: 2048 KB
- Average Seek Time: 12 ms
- Width: 70 mm (2.76 inch)
- Depth: 100 mm (3.94 inch)
- Height: 9.5 mm (0.37 inch)
- Weight: 99 grams (0.22 pounds)
- Acoustic (Idle): 2.5 Bel
- Required Power For Spinup: 1100 mA
- Power Required (Seek): 2.1 W
- Power Required (Idle): 0.8 W
- Power Required (Standby): 0.13 W
- Manufacturer: Fujitsu Computer Products of America, Inc.
Fujitsu MHS2040AT Hard Drives:
- MHS2040AT, PN CA06272-B64400C3, Fujitsu 40GB IDE 2.5″ Hard Drive
- MHS2040AT, PN CA06272-B66400C4, Fujitsu 40GB IDE 2.5″ Hard Drive
- MHS2040AT, PN CA06272-B70400AP, Fujitsu 40GB IDE 2.5″ Hard Drive
- MHS2040AT, PN CA06272-B83100DX, Fujitsu 40GB IDE 2.5″ Hard Drive
Fujitsu MHS2040AT 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 MHS2040AT Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Fujitsu MHS2040AT 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:
CA26317-B50204BA, etc.