54098U8 Maxtor 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 40.9GB and featuring a IDE interface. 54098U8 Maxtor 40GB 7200RPM IDE 3.5-inch Hard Drive.
All information about the Maxtor 54098U8 hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Maxtor 54098U8 Technical Details:
- Hard Disk Model: MAXTOR 54098U8
- Disk Family: DiamondMax Plus 40
- Form Factor: 3.5″
- Capacity: 40981 MB (40981 x 1 000 000 bytes)
- Number Of Disks: 4
- Number Of Heads: 8
- Rotational Speed: 7200 RPM
- Rotation Time: 8.33 ms
- Average Rotational Latency: 4.17 ms
- Disk Interface: Ultra-ATA/66
- Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 66.6 MB/seconds
- Buffer Size: 2048 KB
- Average Seek Time: 9 ms
- Track To Track Seek Time: 1 ms
- Full Stroke Seek Time: 20 ms
- Width: 102.1 mm (4.02 inch)
- Depth: 146.6 mm (5.77 inch)
- Height: 25.9 mm (1.02 inch)
- Weight: 590 grams (1.30 pounds)
- Acoustic (Idle): 3.5 Bel
- Acoustic (Min performance and volume): 2.7 Bel
- Acoustic (Max performance and volume): 2.7 Bel
- Required Power For Spinup: 1520 mA
- Power Required (Seek): 12.2 W
- Power Required (Idle): 7.3 W
- Power Required (Standby): 0.9 W
- Manufacturer: Seagate Corporation
Maxtor 54098U8 Hard Drives:

- 54098U8, Code DA620RS0, KMBB, Maxtor 40.9GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
Maxtor 54098U8 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 54098U8 Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Maxtor 54098U8 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 “Main Controller IC Number” of your current circuit board in addition to the hard drive’s “Model Number“.
Multiple Main Controller IC Number revisions:
040100500, etc.
Multiple Board Number revisions:
301283100, etc.