Maxtor 8J147S0 3.5″ enterprise hard drive with a storage capacity of 146.8GB and featuring a SAS interface.
All information about the Maxtor 8J147S0 hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Maxtor 8J147S0 Technical Details:
Manufacturer:
Maxtor (Seagate Technology / OEM variants for HP & IBM)
Hard Disk Model:
8J147S0
Disk Family:
Atlas 10K V (5th Generation Enterprise series)
Form Factor:
3.5″
Capacity:
146.8 GB (146,800,000,000 bytes)
Number Of Disks:
4
Number Of Heads:
8
Rotational Speed:
10,000 RPM
Average Seek Time:
4.0 ms (read) / 4.5 ms (write)
Disk Interface:
SAS-1 (Serial Attached SCSI, 3.0 Gb/s)
Buffer Size:
16384 KB (16 MB)
External Transfer Rate:
300 MB/s (3.0 Gb/s)
Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF):
1,400,000 hours
Maxtor 8J147S0 Hard Drives:
- 8J147S0 – 146.8 GB SAS 3.5″ Enterprise Hard Drive, Atlas 10K V series
Maxtor 8J147S0 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 8J147S0 Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Maxtor 8J147S0 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 302117102, 040126300, etc.