8D147J0 Maxtor 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 146GB and featuring a SCSI interface.
All information about the Maxtor 8D147J0 hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Maxtor 8D147J0 Technical Details:
- Hard Disk Model: Maxtor 8D147J0
- Disk Family: Atlas 10K V
- Form Factor: 3.5″
- Capacity: 147 GB (147 000 000 000 bytes)
- Number Of Disks: 4
- Number Of Heads: 8
- Rotational Speed: 10000 RPM
- Rotation Time: 6.00 ms
- Average Rotational Latency: 3.00 ms
- Disk Interface: Ultra320 SCSI (68-pin)
- Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 320 MB/seconds
- Buffer Size: 8192 KB (8 MB)
- Drive Ready Time (typical): 15.0 seconds
- Average Seek Time: 4.4 ms
- Track To Track Seek Time: 0.4 ms
- Width: 101.6 mm (4.00 inch)
- Depth: 146.1 mm (5.75 inch)
- Height: 25.4 mm (1.00 inch)
- Weight: 780 grams (1.72 pounds)
- Acoustic (Idle): 3.4 Bel
- Acoustic (Min performance and volume): 3.4 Bel
- Acoustic (Max performance and volume): 3.9 Bel
- Required Power For Spinup: 12V / 5V (Peak 2.6A)
- Power Required (Seek): 13.8 W
- Power Required (Idle): 9.2 W
- Power Required (Standby): 3.5 W
- Manufacturer: Maxtor Corporation
Maxtor 8D147J0 Hard Drives:
- 8D147J0, FGBA, Maxtor 146GB SCSI 3.5″ Hard Drive
- 8D147J0, FGCA, Maxtor 146GB SCSI 3.5″ Hard Drive
Maxtor 8D147J0 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 8D147J0 Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Maxtor 8D147J0 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:
040119700, etc.
Multiple Board Number revisions:
301935100, etc.