5A300J0 Maxtor 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 300GB and featuring a IDE interface. 5A300J0 Maxtor 300GB 5400RPM 2MB Cache EIDE/ATA-133 Maxline-II Hard Drive Hard Drive.

All information about the Maxtor 5A300J0 hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Maxtor 5A300J0 Technical Details:

• Hard Disk Model: MAXTOR 5A300J0
• Disk Family: MaXLine II
• Form Factor: 3.5″
• Capacity: 300 GB (300 x 1 000 000 000 bytes)
• Number Of Disks: 4
• Number Of Heads: 8
• Rotational Speed: 5400 RPM
• Rotation Time: 11.11 ms
• Average Rotational Latency: 5.56 ms
• Disk Interface: Ultra-ATA/133
• Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 133 MB/seconds
• Buffer Size: 2048 KB
• Average Seek Time: 10 ms
• Width: 101.6 mm (4.00 inch)
• Depth: 147 mm (5.79 inch)
• Height: 26.1 mm (1.03 inch)
• Weight: 620 grams (1.37 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 5A300J0 Hard Drives:

• 5A300J0, Code RAM51VV0, NGDD, Maxtor 300GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive

Maxtor 5A300J0 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 5A300J0 Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Maxtor 5A300J0 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:
040108000, etc.

Multiple Board Number revisions:
301593100, etc.