8J300S0 Maxtor 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 300GB and featuring a SAS interface. 8J300S0-0891G3 Maxtor 300GB 10000RPM SAS 3Gb/s 3.5-inch Hard Drive.
All information about the Maxtor 8J300S0 hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Maxtor 8J300S0 Technical Details:
- Manufacturer: Maxtor
- Manufacturer Website: www.maxtor.seagate.com
- Manufacturer Part No: 8J300S0-088011
- Product Series or Family: Atlas 10K V
- Product Type: Internal Hard Drive
- Storage Capacity: 300GB
- Spindle Speed: 10000RPM
- Drive Interface: SAS
- Form Factor: 3.5Inch
- Cache: 16MB
Maxtor 8J300S0 Hard Drives:
- 8J300S0, FGCA, Maxtor 300GB SAS 3.5″ Hard Drive
- 8J300S0, Code BN01, FGBA, Maxtor 300GB SAS 3.5″ Hard Drive
- 8J300S0, FGBA, Maxtor 300GB SAS 3.5″ Hard Drive
Maxtor 8J300S0 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 8J300S0 Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Maxtor 8J300S0 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:
040126300, etc.
Multiple Board Number revisions:
302117102, etc.