98196H8 Maxtor 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 81.9GB and featuring a IDE interface. 98196H8 Maxtor DiamondMax 80 81.9GB 5400RPM IDE / ATA-100 2MB Cache 3.5-inch Hard Drive.

All information about the Maxtor 98196H8 hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Maxtor 98196H8 Technical Details:

• Hard Disk Model: MAXTOR 98196H8
• Disk Family: DiamondMax 80
• Form Factor: 3.5″
• Capacity: 81964 MB (81964 x 1 000 000 bytes)
• Number Of Disks: 4
• Number Of Heads: 8
• Rotational Speed: 5400 RPM
• Rotation Time: 11.11 ms
• Average Rotational Latency: 5.56 ms
• Disk Interface: Ultra-ATA/100
• Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 100 MB/seconds
• Buffer Size: 2048 KB
• Drive Ready Time (typical): 10 seconds
• Average Seek Time: 9 ms
• Track To Track Seek Time: 1 ms
• Full Stroke Seek Time: 20 ms
• Width: 101.6 mm (4.00 inch)
• Depth: 147 mm (5.79 inch)
• Height: 26.1 mm (1.03 inch)
• 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 98196H8 Hard Drives:

• 98196H8, Code ZAH814Y0 [K,M,C,Maxtor 81.9GB B] IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive

Maxtor 98196H8 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 98196H8 Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Maxtor 98196H8 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:
040103900, etc.

Multiple Board Number revisions:
301351100, etc.