DK23FA40 Hitachi 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 40 GB and featuring a IDE interface. DK23FA40 HITACHI 2.5″ 40 GB Ultra-ATA/100 DK23FA 4200 RPM Hard Drive.
All information about the Hitachi DK23FA40 hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Hitachi DK23FA40 Technical Details:
- Hard Disk Model: HITACHI_DK23FA-40
- Disk Family: DK23FA
- Form Factor: 2.5″
- Capacity: 40 GB (40 x 1 000 000 000 bytes)
- Number Of Disks: 1
- Number Of Heads: 2
- 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: 13 ms
- Track To Track Seek Time: 3 ms
- Full Stroke Seek Time: 24 ms
- Width: 70 mm (2.76 inch)
- Depth: 100 mm (3.94 inch)
- Height: 9.5 mm (0.35 inch)
- Weight: 91 grams (0.20 pounds)
- Acoustic (Idle): 2.4 Bel
- Acoustic (Min performance and volume): 2.6 Bel
- Acoustic (Max performance and volume): 2.6 Bel
- Required Power For Spinup: 400 mA
- Power Required (Seek): 0.8 W
- Power Required (Idle): 0.35 W
- Power Required (Standby): 0.08 W
- Manufacturer: Hitachi Global Storage Technologies
Hitachi DK23FA40 Hard Drives:
- DK23FA40 HITACHI 2.5″ 40 GB Ultra-ATA/100 DK23FA 4200 RPM Hard Drive.
Hitachi DK23FA40 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
Hitachi DK23FA40 Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Hitachi DK23FA40 hard drive experience is a burned circuit board (PCB). Therefore, if you need to replace the PCB, be sure to match the “White Label Number” of the current board, such as etc.