MHW2120BJ G1 Fujitsu 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 120GB and featuring a SATA interface. MHW2120BJ Fujitsu 120GB 7200RPM 8MB Cache 2.5-inch SATA 3GB/s 7-Pin Laptop Hard Drive.

All information about the Fujitsu MHW2120BJ G1 hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Fujitsu MHW2120BJ G1 Technical Details:

  • Hard Disk Model: FUJITSU MHW2120BJ
  • Disk Family: –
  • Form Factor: 2.5″
  • Capacity: 120 GB (120 x 1 000 000 000 bytes)
  • Number Of Disks: 2
  • Number Of Heads: 3
  • Rotational Speed: 7200 RPM
  • Rotation Time: 8.33 ms
  • Average Rotational Latency: 4.17 ms
  • Buffer Size: 8192 KB
  • Average Seek Time: 10.5 ms
  • Track To Track Seek Time: 1.5 ms
  • Full Stroke Seek Time: 20.5 ms
  • Width: 70 mm (2.76 inch)
  • Depth: 100 mm (3.94 inch)
  • Height: 9.5 mm (0.37 inch)
  • Weight: 116 grams (0.26 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 MHW2120BJ G1 Hard Drives:

MHW2120BJ G1 Fujitsu 120GB SATA 2.5 Inch Hard Drive

  • MHW2120BJ G1, PN CA06855-B376000T, Fujitsu 120GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • MHW2120BJ G1, PN CA06855-B31600C1, Fujitsu 120GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive

Fujitsu MHW2120BJ G1 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 MHW2120BJ G1 Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Fujitsu MHW2120BJ G1 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:
CA26342-B81404BA, etc.