MPD3043AT Fujitsu 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 4.3GB and featuring a IDE interface. MPD3043AT Fujitsu Desktop 4.3GB 5400RPM ATA-33 512KB Cache 3.5-inch Hard Drive.
All information about the Fujitsu MPD3043AT hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Fujitsu MPD3043AT Technical Details:
- Hard Disk Model: FUJITSU MPD3043AT
- Disk Family: Desktop 18
- Form Factor: 3.5″
- Capacity: 4300 MB (4300 x 1 000 000 bytes)
- Number Of Disks: 1
- Number Of Heads: 2
- Rotational Speed: 5400 RPM
- Rotation Time: 11.11 ms
- Average Rotational Latency: 5.56 ms
- Disk Interface: Ultra-ATA/33
- Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 33.3 MB/seconds
- Buffer Size: 512 KB
- Drive Ready Time (typical): 8 seconds
- Average Seek Time: 9.5 ms
- Track To Track Seek Time: 1.5 ms
- Full Stroke Seek Time: 18 ms
- Width: 101.6 mm (4.00 inch)
- Depth: 146.0 mm (5.75 inch)
- Height: 26.1 mm (1.03 inch)
- Weight: 600 grams (1.32 pounds)
- Power Required (Seek): 6.0 W
- Power Required (Idle): 4.1 W
- Power Required (Standby): 1.0 W
- Manufacturer: Fujitsu Computer Products of America, Inc.
Fujitsu MPD3043AT Hard Drives:
- MPD3043AT, PN CA05177-B99200UW, Fujitsu 4.3GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
Fujitsu MPD3043AT 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 MPD3043AT Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Fujitsu MPD3043AT 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:
CA26227-B11604BA, etc.