MHW216RBH Fujitsu 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 160GB and featuring a SATA interface. MHW216RBH Fujitsu 160GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive.
All information about the Fujitsu MHW216RBH hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Fujitsu MHW216RBH Technical Details:
- Hard Disk Model: Fujitsu MHW216RBH
- Disk Family: MHW2 BH Series
- Form Factor: 2.5″
- Capacity: 160 GB (160,000,000,000 bytes)
- Rotational Speed: 5400 RPM
- Rotation Time: 11.11 ms
- Average Rotational Latency: 5.56 ms
- Disk Interface: Serial-ATA/150 (SATA 1.5 Gb/s)
- Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 150 MB/second
- Buffer Size: 8192 KB (8 MB)
- Number of Disks (Platters): 2
- Number of Heads: 4
- Width: 70.0 mm (2.76 inch)
- Depth: 100.0 mm (3.94 inch)
- Height: 9.5 mm (0.37 inch)
- Weight: 101 grams (0.22 pounds)
- Manufacturer: Fujitsu Limited
Fujitsu MHW216RBH Hard Drives:

- MHW216RBH, PN CA06820-B81800WL, Fujitsu 160GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
Fujitsu MHW216RBH 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 MHW216RBH Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Fujitsu MHW216RBH 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:
CA26343-B84304BA, etc.