HP / Maxtor BF1468A4B8 3.5″ enterprise hard drive with a storage capacity of 146.8GB and featuring a SCSI interface.
All information about the HP / Maxtor BF1468A4B8 (Maxtor 8K147J0) hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
HP / Maxtor BF1468A4B8 (8K147J0) Technical Details:
Manufacturer:
HP / Maxtor (Hitachi Global Storage Technologies OEM for HP)
Hard Disk Model:
BF1468A4B8 (Maxtor Base Model: 8K147J0)
Disk Family:
Atlas 15K II (Enterprise Server Series)
Form Factor:
3.5″
Capacity:
146.8 GB (146,800,000,000 bytes)
Number Of Disks:
4
Number Of Heads:
8
Rotational Speed:
15,000 RPM
Average Seek Time:
3.0 ms (read) / 3.4 ms (write)
Disk Interface:
Wide Ultra320 SCSI (80-pin SCA-2 hot-swap / LVD)
Buffer Size:
16384 KB (16 MB)
External Transfer Rate:
320 MB/s
Internal Transfer Rate:
Up to 98 MB/s (sustained)
Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF):
1,400,000 hours
Maxtor 8K147J0 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 8K147J0 Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Maxtor 8K147J0 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 302054102, 040123400, etc.