6V120E0 Maxtor 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 120 GB and featuring a SATA interface. 6V120E0 MAXTOR 3.5″ 120 GB Serial-ATA/300 DiamondMax 10 7200 RPM Hard Drive.
All information about the Maxtor 6V120E0 hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Maxtor 6V120E0 Technical Details:
- Hard Disk Model: MAXTOR 6V120E0
- Disk Family: DiamondMax 10
- Form Factor: 3.5″
- Capacity: 120 GB (120 x 1 000 000 000 bytes)
- Rotational Speed: 7200 RPM
- Rotation Time: 8.33 ms
- Average Rotational Latency: 4.17 ms
- Disk Interface: Serial-ATA/300
- Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 300 MB/seconds
- Buffer Size: 8192 KB
- Average Seek Time: 9 ms
- Width: 101.6 mm (3.98 inch)
- Depth: 147 mm (5.79 inch)
- Height: 26.1 mm (1.02 inch)
- Weight: 630 grams (1.39 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 6V120E0 Hard Drives:
- 6V120E0 MAXTOR 3.5″ 120 GB Serial-ATA/300 DiamondMax 10 7200 RPM Hard Drive.
Maxtor 6V120E0 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 6V120E0 Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Maxtor 6V120E0 hard drive experience is a burned circuit board (PCB). Therefore, if you need to replace the PCB, be sure to match the “Main Contorl Chip Number” or “Board Number” of the current board, such as etc.