Maxtor 32049H3 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 20.4GB and featuring an IDE interface.
All information about the Maxtor 32049H3 hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Maxtor 32049H3 Technical Details:
Manufacturer:
Maxtor
Hard Disk Model:
32049H3
Disk Family:
DiamondMax VL 30 (Value Line series)
Form Factor:
3.5″
Capacity:
20.4 GB (20,490 MB)
Number Of Disks:
2
Number Of Heads:
3
Rotational Speed:
5400 RPM
Average Seek Time:
9.5 ms (read, typical)
Disk Interface:
IDE Ultra ATA/100 (ATA-6)
Buffer Size:
512 KB
External Transfer Rate:
100 MB/s
Internal Transfer Rate:
Up to 41.8 MB/s
Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF):
500,000 hours
Maxtor 32049H3 Hard Drives:
- 32049H3 – 20.4 GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive, DiamondMax VL 30 series
Maxtor 32049H3 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
Maxtor 32049H3 Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Maxtor 32049H3 hard drive experience is a burned circuit board (PCB). Therefore, if you need to replace the PCB, be sure to match the “PCB Number” of the current board, such as 301252104, 040101900, etc.